Post-Candide

Weak Arguments Only Count If Someone Tried

A bad argument for a claim is evidence against the claim. That sounds like a license to dismiss anything poorly argued, and it mostly isn’t …

Where This Was Always Leading

Watching the sincere libertarians work through the Anthropic/Fable situation, which has been building for a while. They’re strung out along …

Procès d'intention

A French idiom that lack a concise equivalent in English. procès d’intention: “you are judging me not for what I said or did but for the …

Preventing spurious yas-snippet expanding

yasnippet-snippets short keys can expand unexpectedly when completing identifiers with separators. A single yas-buffer-local-condition check …

Pre-launching tmux on macOS: a TCC rabbit hole

I wanted something simple: a tmux server running at login, with a pre-configured session ready the moment I open iTerm2: just attach and go. …