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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.

https://build.rs/ is a handy Rust pattern for compile-time code generation. E.g. https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-bindgen/tutorial-3.html It's a small standalone program that prints lines of Rust code! It reminds me of much more dynamic languages.