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But it's not prime - what am I missing? Why is this anecdote significant?

If EB1A is approved, my understanding is that the applicant becomes "current" and eligible for the green card at once without any waiting in the queue regardless of country of birth. Is that not correct?

I second this. I wouldn't have been able to make tmux such an integral part of my daily workflow if it weren't for this binding that I came across in someone's starter tmux conf many years ago.

Rust too - cargo for everything.

Codecrafters! Highly recommend it. Also the second half of Nand2Tetris.

I really like it too. I'm always excited to see the themes of personal and other tech blogs I come across here.

Great project and write-up. Was hoping to find some info on the UI design and the libraries used. Did I overlook it in the post?

I've been using Pelican [1] to generate my blog [2]. Here's how I set everything up: [3].

[1] https://getpelican.com/

[2] https://gurudas.dev/

[3] https://gurudas.dev/blog/2023/06/07/how-i-generate-gurudas-d...

I love the table-diagrams at the end. I've never seen anything like that until now and it really seems useful for visualization of the recipe and the sequence of steps.

After more than a decade and a half of efforts and drama from within the community, the Tulu script has finally been accepted by the Unicode Consortium.

I was curious about the drama, so I searched around and found this article from 2021 that kinda explains why: https://restofworld.org/2021/tulu-unicode-script/

Loved this line:

    Every great man that I have known has had a certain time and place in their life that they use as a reference point; a time when things worked as they were supposed to and great things were accomplished.

This has inspired me to work harder so that I find myself in such a flow state in either a work situation or a life situation in the not too distant future, say, a decade.

David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this till the end.

The link appears to be down. Would love to read it though.

This is incredibly insightful - I've never analyzed people in organizations in this way, except "people who can do the work" and "others who ride on their coattails".

This is very interesting. For those interested in following all the parts of early kernel booting that were out of scope for this article, please read this fantastic resource: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/

Oh wow, I didn't know that "Y-Combinator" was not just a fancy name but was an actual computer science concept. Thanks!

A very helpful alternative exists for managing patches and iterating on new patch sets of the same feature, although it's for the Linux kernel: https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/

I didn't know such a feature existed, thanks.

This is excellent work! I recently started Nand2Tetris myself, and hope to finish part 1 (the HW part of the course) sometime in the next few months. I blogged about my progress here: https://gurudas.dev/blog/2024/04/13/nand-to-tetris-2024-proj...

I've always wondered: wouldn't they need to have already classified those captchas for them to determine whether the user has made the right selections? If so, doesn't that defeat its "real" purpose of getting people to do that classification work for them?

How do they plan to enforce this?

This is relatively well-known in watch circles as the "watchmaker's four".

Still is, in some hardware companies.

His mechanical watch internals page is also equally amazing.

Thanks a lot! I really love this superset of /now pages with your own great idea of an /ideas page.

Great! I don't have an /about or /ideas page, but I do have a /now and a /uses page.

https://gurudas.dev

I currently only have a short blurb on my landing homepage instead of a full /about page because I struggle with anxiety when trying to describe myself and my journey so far (also impostor syndrome).

I like the /ideas page too, but I may not end up finishing ideas if I get my dopamine fix early by publishing them to the world.

Have you used the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard? I really like that, but it isn't mechanical.

For great commit messages, just browse the git history of the Linux kernel where this is the standard.

The first line always mentions the subsystem affected by the change, followed by a one-line imperative-mood summary of the change. Subsequently, three questions are answered in as much detail as possible:

1. What is the current behaviour? 2. What led to this change? 3. What is the new behaviour after applying this change?

Example:

"Currently, code does X. When running test case T, unexpected behaviour U was observed. This is because of reason R. Fix this by doing F."

There have been many such claims of decipherment of the Indus Valley script, with varying levels of rigour in their arguments, but I wouldn't consider any of them having actually achieved it.

Gatech, UPenn, U Colorado Boulder all have great CompE programs at both undergrad and graduate levels.