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YouTube is giving uploaders new ways to monetise their content, including selling merchandise: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/youtube-introduces-channel-memberships-merchandise-and-premieres/ It's largely competing with Twitch (which makes tipping easy and desirable) but also the wider ecosystem of vlogger monetisation services.

Is there any way to see whether you're already following an account from the Mastodon web client? I get 'Remote Follow' on all accounts on other instances, whereas Tusky on Android helpfully reports whether or not I'm following.

@aidalgol@icosahedron.website deadgrep focuses on: * focused UI. By not using compilation-mode, there's no superfluous symbols or duplicated filenames shown. * easy filtering. It's easy to change case sensitivity, search type, file type, etc from an existing search. * minimum keystrokes. If you have an active region, it's a single keystroke (no directory or file type required).

A really neat way of building web UIs that communicate 'work in progress' -- web components that render like hand drawings, and different every time!

Improving your Emacs modeline with moody and minions: https://manuel-uberti.github.io/emacs/2018/03/10/moody-and-minions/

I've written an #emacs plugin for searching for text with ripgrep: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep rg is a fantastic search tool, and deadgrep.el includes everything I've learnt with several hundred users of ag.el!

The Emacs Problem: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem A good discussion of lispiness, the inherent structure in many text formats, and editors that are dynamically configurable.

"Significant effort has been put into making optimization output agnostic of the -gsetting (so you can rebuild binary with debug info after your program core dumped and use it to debug the core dump)" Impressive gcc features discussed in

Machine-assisted literature review in medicine! Apply NLP to papers to extract the relationships they found, then use miniKanren to find drugs with desired properties: https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-medical-breakthroughs

Interesting article on how and how much income people earn from social media: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/how-much-do-influencers-make/

Useful introduction to basic Awk usage:

A thorough introduction to Rake, including a good discussion of why you might want an internal DSL on top of Ruby rather than a custom language like Make:

GitLab is building a nifty editor to enable you to commit changes across multiple files within your browser:

Build Server Protocol, taking the ideas from the Language Server Protocol and extending it to builds:

Really cute video demo of the hypertext documentation in Symbolics Lisp Machines: https://youtu.be/7DxYj32cvoE The speaker carefully explains why links are a good thing! It also lists history in a pane (rather than a back button) and has a stronger notion of navigating hierarchies.