13. 5. 2025
Insider tips to drive results, accelerate decisions, and build consensus from a former Google Engineering Director
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970104
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/5-powerful-persuasion-methods-for
29. 4. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrwcy_OT8eo
- Shorten the layers, say to 5 frames
- Select layers in order you want them to appear (Can do shift selection as well)
- rmb on selected layers, Keyframe assistant > Sequence layers
(Overlap with some fading may look good)
24. 4. 2025
Install common lisp and rlwrap
sudo apt install sbcl rlwrap
rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing.
Run lisp repl
Test
Add 3 numbers
(+ 1 2 3)
; should return 6
Hello world (~% stands for newline)
(format t "hello world~%")
Hello world as a function
(defun hello-world () (format t "hello world~%"))
(hello-world)
Hello world as a selfpropeled script with shebang that works on Debian
#!/usr/bin/sbcl --script
(format t "hello world~%")
Books
https://gigamonkeys.com/book/
Practical Common Lisp published by Apress These pages now contain the final text as it appears in the book.
IDE
Can’t figure out how to install/setup ‘alive’ for vscode, don’t want to deal with emacs. Slimv does something interesting for vim: https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html#get-started-with-slimv-and-sbcl
In zellij or tmux run
sbcl --load ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp
Open vim test.lisp or something, type ,c for start and ,e for eval.

23. 4. 2025
http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769959
A pixel is a point sample. It exists only at a point. For a color picture, a pixel might actually contain three samples, one for each primary color contributing to the picture at the sampling point. We can still think of this as a point sample of a color. But we cannot think of a pixel as a square—or anything other than a point.
11. 4. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey from a Linux kernel management tool to the foundation of modern software development.
1. 4. 2025

Zellij multiplexer, duh4, vim, nginx status, ollama llama.