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My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.

@… well, there are two separate problems here right? One is a scenario in which the textarea is readonly-esque and you want to report the value with line numbers outside of editing. The other is reporting line numbers while a user is editing? I’m not even sure what the latter might look like? e.g. “Your cursor is on line 4, which has the following code:”?

Desktop software I use June 2025 edition
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“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists and is escorting the boat to Israel, the foreign ministry said early Monday.

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

a new amazing artwork recreation by Nicholas Rougeux (@…) : "Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe – Digital edition of Thomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise" https://www.c82.net/work/?id=399

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/09/entertainment/sly-stone-death

Sly Stone, pioneering funk musician, dead at 82
Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the J.D. Salinger of rock, has died, his family announced Monday.

Over five years now I'm programming on the JVM. Started out with #Java, moved to #Kotlin as my daily driver, dipped my toes into #Scala and once in a while enjoy experimenting with

My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.

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