"The Internet made Mike Rossi famous — right before it ruined his life." Some classic letsrun.com drama.

According to Wikipedia: TempleOS is a x86-64 bit, non-preemptive multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming. The OS runs 8-bit ASCII with graphics in source code and has a 2D and 3D graphics library, which run at 640x480 VGA with 16 colors. Like most modern operating systems, it has keyboard and mouse support. It supports the FAT32 and RedSea file systems (the latter created by Davis) with support for file compression.

Terry suffered from schizophrenia and claimed his design decisions were dictated by God (there are many religious/biblical elements throughout TempleOS).

Not quite 49 years old. Rumor is suicide by train. I've never even played with or downloaded TempleOS, but as a hobbyist just reading about Terry's work has always been inspirational.

I just worked through this interactive SQL tutorial. It is well written with an interesting if macabre example dataset. The interactive bits worked well once I enabled web components in Firefox.

My takeaway is that I should try running some long runs on tired legs.

I'm afraid this article is full of empty hope, but it is still encouraging. This is a fun sentence:

While you can’t put a number on it, adrenaline and competition will make the race distance feel two-thirds of what it really is.

Not as overly optimistic as other marathon prediction tools

Covers routing, dependency management, and testing in a single post.

A comparison of how several marathon training plans (Hansons, Pfitzinger, Canova, and Daniels) approach the long run.

Sam started the process of making semiconductors in his garage 1.5 years ago.

Three strikes and you refactor.

git uses a two and three dot notation for git log and git diff.

Unfortunately they mean different, and nearly opposite things, in the two cases.

The Top Starred repositories in Github have been analysed to understand which are the most common whitespace types in different programming languages.

A bunch of tips and links for using Plover.

Most vi users should probably know the basics of ed/ex

Short history of Vim.

See also this recent article ("A Look at Vim, A Text Editor for the Ages"): https://thenewstack.io/a-look-at-vim-a-text-editor-for-the-ages/