Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

i am so bad at using mailing lists, ahah

my favorite part is when you apologize for misusing one in a way that misuses it again accidentally

@dthompson huh! maybe i'll have to learn how to do that too..!

@technomancy there's probably some truth to that!

the amount of built-in documentation for so many things that have actual tutorials and examples without needing to install anything is really nice

but it would also be nice if it were html and was integrated a little nicer and consistently too

i guess i was more just wondering why the books themselves had such a bad reputation--i guess it's more the requirement to read them because of the lack of a good quick reference?

@dthompson nice!

tikka masala is delicious, but i have no idea how one would even begin to make it, ahah

@technomancy oops, yep! that's what i meant

and ahhh dang, that's not particularly great behavior, huh? :<

i use eww too, though i try to avoid it on pubnix because html parsing kinda balloons my memory usage, and emacs' gc is pretty bad at reclaiming that, meaning i need to occasionally restart the emacs server completely if i do that

i also find it also doesn't integrate as nicely like the modes that just pop up common lisp hyperspec info nodes when i need em do

@technomancy i might be a bit biased though, since they were a lifesaver that basically taught me how to do so much stuff before i had reliable internet, and i still like being able to fall back to it when on trips to places where that's still the case, but still wanna do one of my hobbies during downtime~

@technomancy oh yeah! i imagine writing it is a different story (i mostly meant from a consumption standpoint!)

with it, i have basically have a library of ebooks that are accessible from a terminal, emacs, or a browser, all fully searchable, offline, and even integratable with other documentation in-editor

all while still having a small enough footprint that i don't need to worry about interacting with it on a pubnix or lo-fi systems

i wonder what about info (as in, the texinfo books) rubs people the wrong way?

i've always actually kinda liked having offline ebooks to read about things i'm learning

heck! i even went out of my way to get texinfo versions of SICP and the common lisp hyperspec

@bx oh yeah! i see spiders like this pretty often!

they are super-chill honestly (plus they don't bite! so they can crawl on your hand without issues~)

i've seen this spider just kinda crawling around this room all week

fun-sized friend!

they hunt

@fraggle@octodon.social free ebooks for all~

@fraggle@octodon.social i guess i should probably mention that -k lists keys you've added to gpg, and the search thingy is actually in every input that needs a key specified

(i mostly use -k like an address book search though)

but still! gpg has a pretty wild cli interface, and could probably make about a hundred fewer bad assumptions

@fraggle@octodon.social the only good thing about gpg's cli is the search you get when you gpg -k <some text>

you know, -k

to ksearch

@SirTapTap@mastodon.social oh yeah, it's preeetty bad

i still prepend old. to every reddit url whenever i find i do need to use it, because that just feels infinitely nicer to me