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Wed, 04 Apr 2018

If you want to run exa, a modern replacement for ls, via a binary package, systems that offer them are Mac OS's Homebrew, and Arch and Fedora Linux. Nothing yet for Debian or Ubuntu, as far as I can tell. https://the.exa.website/

Tue, 03 Apr 2018

GitHub - magnars/stasis: Some Clojure functions for creating static websites. https://github.com/magnars/stasis

Clojure Features: Or why you should stop worrying about features and just use Clojure | Benjamin Zaporzan http://benzaporzan.me/blog/2018/3/29/clojure_features_or_why_you_should_stop_worrying_about_features_and_just_use_clojure/

Mon, 02 Apr 2018

I needed to set my classpath for Java in Windows, and despite this page saying it's obsolete, it worked for Win 10. Now I can keep my Java libraries in one directory and use them wherever I'm working on a program. https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/15inout/classpath.html

There's a spy in the house, and it's name is Alexa (or its Google equivalent). People seem to be OK with this, and it is disturbing. I'm worried that the act of using a smarphone is no better in terms of how we're being tracked by corporations. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html