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Apr 16, 2023 at 03:53
Thoughtful article about building older software with Nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/ It's striking how a project that does so much excellent work on build reproducibility still has some build errors in this scenario. Bitrot is scary.
Building 15-year-old software with Nix
Building 15-year-old software with Nix
Several people around me have been talking about Nix lately, and say that it

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Today I learnt that Emacs 28 shipped a context-menu-mode! https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20230129/ This seems quintessentially Emacs: deeply hackable, but building UI features in an order very different to the mainstream.
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Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with M-x context-menu-mode RET but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) I did not hook prog mode because some of the fancier lsp things already use mouse-3.