i'm happy with how typeahead now works in ktistec. it took a surprising amount of effort to get it to feel right.

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the most useless keyboard combination in osx has got to be taking a snapshot of the taskbar

how my family rolls

i've got meetings on my calendar i just don't remember scheduling...

commits 52d849d through 8cd8f3b implement draft posts, a feature that makes it easier to use ktistec to compose longer posts. one big change in the set of changes is support for incremental edits and saves of posts, as they are being written. this change also gets us very close to federated updates to published posts—a feature that mastodon, unfortunately, only supports for polls.

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i started reading Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes (Earman, 1995). my first revelation was that the point-like singularity caused by gravitational collapse (a black hole) is not the only possible type of space-time singularity, at least in the mathematical, if not physical, sense.

at least someone enjoys the snowstorm!

a couple interesting crystal language projects i came across recently:

• crystalizer - serialization of any crystal object
• crystal-byte-protocol - a byte protocol for crystal

the former, in particular, is an annotation free, monkey-patch free solution for quickly serializing/deserializing objects into JSON, YAML or other formats.

23 points. best game ever.

a beautiful game that strikes the right balance between competition and construction.