That small sliver of time where a QNX desktop was a real thing we did
Bradford Morgan White has published an excellent retrospective of QNX, the realtime microkernel operating system focused on embedded use cases. The final paragraph made me sad, though. QNX is a fascinating operating system. It was extremely well designed from the start, and while it has been rewritten, the core ideas that allowed it survive for 45 years persist to this day. While I am sad that … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2024 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/29/review-2024.html #retrospective #newyear
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How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the GitHub Accessibility leadership team
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On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/25/review-2022.html #retrospective #newyear
in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…
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@movq would it be possible to trim the subject to, say, 100 or 140 characters? Just the subject.
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Subjectcontains the full twt, then you can skim over conversations just by reading those lines in mutt’s index pager
Yes, I do the same, true.
So I decided: Okay, let’s have mutt do it.
And Mutt does it well. I agree it was/is a good idea.
The subject lines are already “compressed”
I noticed, yes.
I am not sure why I asked to begin with; in retrospect, in was a silly request. Perhaps the OCD in me got triggered while viewing rich headers, on a specific twt, when I saw the huge subject line that is, otherwise, always hidden.
Anyway, don’t mind me, move along. 😂
On the blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2020 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/27/year.html #retrospective #newyear
It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.
A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/