Honza Pokorný @_honza

Reformed Presbyterian, Red Hat engineer, Openshift, coffee, photography, plant-based, old books, FP fanatic, emacs, text interface lover, jazz; RT ≠ endorsement

 Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Joined June 2008
Project launch: The Greek New Testament honza.pokorny.ca/2022/09/pro…

Project launch: The Greek New Testament

After much work over several years, I’m pleased to announce the public release of my Greek New Testament project. This is something that to my knowledge hasn’t been available until now. The Scrivener...

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But then again I’m not sure what the point of it is apart from pure enjoyment. The same could be accomplished easier with Go or even Rust. Python too probably with the nix dependency management. And learning Rust is probably more future proof?
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100 LOC to scrape a page for sales as one does
What’s different this time? I used the power of nix to do the heavy lifting to bring in the dependencies. I wrote a flake to bake it all together. Since all this code is just personal utilities, it then gets installed in configuration.nix. Feels good.
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I just wrote some lisp and it was nice?
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Adam Rackis
 @AdamRackis
Nov 6
Finishing Alexandrescu’s Modern C++ Design and realizing you have to write React components at work tomorrow
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Except Rust is the new C++
Stefan @schteppe
Nov 4
“I believe Rust is the next 40-year language. Just like the previous generation of programmers can build an entire career on C, I think the next generation will build their careers on Rust. And honestly, what an upgrade!”
Me reading Aristotle’s Categories in Greek for the first time
Massimo
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Oct 28
Only those who read books regularly will understand this feeling.
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Jared Beasley
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Oct 22
BIG'S - 9 runners have made 4 days and 400 miles. A new record, up from 8 runners in 2023. Sarah Perry - UK - set a new Women's World Record with 95 yards. Now, they return to the trail. The 97th Yard has begun.
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sophie
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Oct 20
1969: we can send people to the moon with 4kb of ram 2025: a cloud outage means my smart bed won’t cool down
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Mikhail Samin
 @Mihonarium
Oct 19
Amazing story: the Czech government spent six years planning a series of dams. A family of beavers constructed the dams for free, in 1-2 says, in the same locations that human picked, accomplishing the goals set by the Czech government and saving humans $1.2 million
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it looks like nixpkgs/nixos-unstable updated cmake to 4 and now everything is broken
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Michael J. Miraflor
 @michaelmiraflor
Oct 9
OpenAI is taking on a lease for 90,000 sq feet at the Puck Building in SoHo, where the now closing REI Store is. This is a metaphor.
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I guess it's not ready github.com/typst/typst/issue…

Accidental numbered list in paragraph · Issue #7013 · typst/typst

Description Given the text: The year was 2025. And the weather was nice. The 2025. is wrongly (in my view) interpreted as the start of a numbered list instead of being treated as regular paragraph ...

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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.
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Oct 3
Protein requirements don’t have to divide us. They can be a source of reconnection and renewal. Hard to see this but I’m hopeful it works out in the end:
ok typst is pretty awesome
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We need Dr Greger @nutrition_facts on the @PeterAttiaMD podcast.
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How to listen to a sermon honza.pokorny.ca/2025/05/jam…

James Durham: How to listen to a sermon

Before And first, before hearing the Word, men break [the second commandment], In not praying for the speaker. In not praying for themselves in reference to this end, that they may profit by the...

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Last week, I saw two different cars on the highway with "JVM" on their plates. Several hours apart. What does this mean?
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Drafts is utterly addictive. So many random cool thoughts captured.
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can't nixos-rebuild because...
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