Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination #3207

  • 21 days alone

    One more night and I'll be alone.

    Without a wife, without a partner, without a crush, or even a phantasm, my daughter will be traveling down south for over 20 days. I haven't been that alone for at least 15 or 20 years. I did a 10 days of solo camping in a canyon more than 20 years ago. And then I lived by myself in Vancouver for a year, but I was in Vancouver.

    It's strange, I am not sure if I am excited or scared. I want to fast, for a bit. I want to build a sweat lodge...

• Technology and Free Software

  • uSER-aGENT: *

    As a practical matter one should probably not use such exotic user-agent lines as doubtless there are otherwise good bots that do not account for the whitespace allowed by the RFC, let alone case variations. The use of infinite whitespace, while allowed, may lead to certain problems.

  • Revert fish shell deleting shortcuts behavior

    In a recent change within fish shell, the shortcut to delete last words were replaced by "delete last big chunk" (I don't know exactly how it is called in this case) which is usually the default behavior on Mac OS "command" key vs "alt" key and I guess it is why it was changed like this on fish.

    Unfortunately, this broke everyone's habit and a standard keyboard do not even offer the new keybinding that received the old behavior.

  • Revert fish shell deleting shortcuts behavior

  • Meta slash-commands to manage prompts and context for coding agents

    I work on many small, repeatable tasks. Instead of retyping the same instructions every time, I want to turn successful prompts into reusable slash-commands and keep background knowledge in loadable context files. This post describes a set of *meta* slash-commands: commands that create, update, and delete other commands and context files. They live as markdown in a dotfiles repo and work with any coding agent that supports slash-commands—Claude Code CLI, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, Ampcode, and others.