Everyone’s into AI feeds in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m here polishing my RSS feed with XSLT. 😂
(Also because I’m a reader of Jamie Zawinski’s blog.)

<https:www.cedricbonhomme.org/2025/08/18/rss-xslt-styling/>

[#rss](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rss) [#atom](https://fosstodon.org/tags/atom) [#newsreader](https://fosstodon.org/tags/newsreader) [#web](https://fosstodon.org/tags/web) [#xslt](https://fosstodon.org/tags/xslt) [#indieweb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb)

Do you worry about the effectiveness of your writing style? As emerging scholars, perfecting the craft of writing is an essential component of developing as graduate students, and yet resources for honing these skills are largely under utilized. Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program, led this session in an effort to communicate helpful rules, skills, and resources that are available to graduate students interested in further developing their writing style.

- pleasing to the eye thanks to a nice table view
- filterable and sortable output
- interactive killing of processes
- JSON and custom formattable output
- from netstat -tulpn to somo -l
- you can find all features further down

TIL about "digraphs" in (neo)vim. Need to insert, say, an en dash, which has a digraph of -N? In insert mode, ctrl-k, hypen, N. Want to check the digraph of a character already in your file? ga to show ascii, and look at the "Digr" notation. You would see e.g. "Digr =e" for the euro symbol.

:help digraphs
:help digraphs-default

[#vim](https://xoxo.zone/tags/vim) [#neovim](https://xoxo.zone/tags/neovim)

Camping in Germany

I just finished a custom Hugo theme I’ve been working on. It’s called “Today I Learned,” and it’s perfect for both traditional blogging and building a knowledge base of shorter, informal notes for easy reference and sharing.

A cool feature: it graphs your content like Obsidian! It also supports side notes and highlights with admonitions.

Check it out at <https://michenriksen.com/til-example-site>

[#Hugo](https://chaos.social/tags/Hugo) [#Obsidian](https://chaos.social/tags/Obsidian) [#Blogging](https://chaos.social/tags/Blogging) [#Notes](https://chaos.social/tags/Notes) [#TIL](https://chaos.social/tags/TIL)

What an absolute unit.

[#birding](https://fediscience.org/tags/birding) [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography) [#owls](https://fediscience.org/tags/owls)

yall ever seen a shaved alpaca before?

The Python version of "Software Design by Example" will be out Real Soon: you can read the content at <https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/> or order a hard copy at <https://www.routledge.com/9781032725215> - please use the code "SMA22" to get 20% off. All royalties will go to support the Red Door Family Shelter in Toronto (<https://www.reddoorshelter.ca/>).

Numbat (<https://numbat.dev/>) is a calculator thing that understands units. They recently added some date and time support, which I'm hoping will satisfy my need for easy to use date math. [#Rust](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Rust) [#cli](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/cli)

[#science](https://mastodon.social/tags/science) is real

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

<https:newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto>

[#crypto](https://hachyderm.io/tags/crypto) [#cryptocurrency](https://hachyderm.io/tags/cryptocurrency) [#VentureCapital](https://hachyderm.io/tags/VentureCapital) [#AndreessenHorowitz](https://hachyderm.io/tags/AndreessenHorowitz)

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