Post-Candide

Locate npm packages

As supply chain attacks are now a weekly occurrence on widely distributed packages, and we can have these installed as transitive …

2026, The Year of Yak-Shaving

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop UX Idea

It would be very useful to: be able to bury a conversation from the recent list (e.g.: conversation is closed, keep it away from active …

Reloading a package under dev with straight

While developing an emacs package, I do that from within the straight/repos folder. If the changes only concern one file, it’s easy to just …

Note on SCMP's China's growing cultural clout article

This is a quick critique of Why Japan thinks China’s growing cultural clout is something it needs to counter. The headline and intro focus …