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#10 — Aug 19, 2025 by Evan Chen

i will still never understand how installing tex live on windows is an overnight process.

maybe i can use this to convince more windows users to switch to linux


#9 — Aug 18, 2025 by Evan Chen

"the song we couldn't write" would have been a good song title


#8 — Aug 18, 2025 by Evan Chen

TIL that conky config files are actually Lua scripts that you can run any code you want in so now my whole morning is gone


#7 — Aug 17, 2025 by Evan Chen

glad i switched to postmark for all OTIS emails (instead of hacky SMTP through Gmail for transactionals and another marketing system for announcements). faster and cheaper and more elegant. i'd been scared of transactional emails for a long time but no longer.


#6 — Aug 17, 2025 by Evan Chen

used blue switch keyboards for the last 10 years or so but recently got a red switch one for my new apartment and it's really growing on me.


#5 — Aug 17, 2025 by Evan Chen

me opening procreate for the first time in years and being like how do i draw a straight line in this thing again hahahaha


#4 — Aug 16, 2025 by Evan Chen

I got this in an email today. Who is teaching kids to write like this? Or am I just being trolled?

I am writing to express my ardent interest in the Otis program, albeit belatedly, as I have only recently become acquainted with its existence. Regrettably, I have discovered that the enrollment deadline has already elapsed, which poses a considerable impediment to my participation. Nonetheless, I am eager to solicit your benevolent consideration for a late enrollment, notwithstanding the aforementioned constraint. Furthermore, I must confess that my financial circumstances are exceedingly straitened, rendering it an onerous task for me to defray the program fees. In light of this pecuniary predicament, I respectfully implore you to consider providing me with access to the program gratis, thereby facilitating my participation and obviating the financial burden that would otherwise preclude me.


#3 — Aug 16, 2025 by Evan Chen

Spent 20 bucks to try Claude Code so I can I sit around watching the token count increase instead of using my own brain. Don't know how I feel about that.

On the other hand, it did d65eee7c by itself so it probably was already worth the 20 bucks. Keep experimenting I guess and see if I want to renew in a month.


#2 — Aug 15, 2025 by Evan Chen

Making uv play nice with virtualfish:

# Automatically sets UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT when VIRTUAL_ENV changes

function __uv_sync_virtual_env --on-variable VIRTUAL_ENV
    if not status --is-interactive
        return
    end
    if status --is-command-substitution
        return
    end
    if set -q VIRTUAL_ENV
        set -gx UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT $VIRTUAL_ENV
    else
        set -e UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT
    end
end

# Run once on startup to sync current state
__uv_sync_virtual_env

#1 — Aug 15, 2025 by Evan Chen

uv is so fast holy crap

i'm so blown away