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Hi ! I'm elb. I like programming, free software, politics1 and text editors.

contact

• codeberg: codeberg.org/elb22
• sourcehut: sr.ht/~elb22
• irc: elb22 on irc.libera.chat
• email: echo ZWxiQGRpc3Jvb3Qub3JnCg== | base64 -d

notes

• why are there backspace characters in the output of man(1) ?
• objdump does not show some elf sections like .symtab

cool articles/talks

• Text rendering hates you
• Text editing hates you too
• Handles are the better pointer
• Pointers Are Complicated, or: What's in a Byte? (3 episodes)
• A tour of the Acme editor
• Why 'Functor' doesn't matter
• Playing Card Cryptography
• Xiki: GUI and Text Interfaces are Converging

1. in the "how should humans live together ?" sense, not in the "what's the new 'representative' of <insert country>" sense