I've been thinking about how belief in the corruption of institutions seems to go hand-in-hand with the willingness to corrupt institutions when one achieves power in them. Comment at lunch about how nobody's as cynical as Russians. And... in this current (AI/politics) doom loop, we're fucked.

I have a Markdown-ish static site generator that has heritage to code I wrote in 1998 to convert email to web sites, I use Emacs for text editing, and I'm playing with Obsidian, and wondering what people do about paragraph breaks vs line breaks. Lots of <br/> is funky, and yet...

Ah, the joys of finding a kindred spirit on the Mac/XCode development path. From https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/316880/stop-xcode-from-hijacking-my-file-associations Mark Anderson writes: "The best workaround I've found is to never install the sodding GUI. Use `xcode-select --install` in terminal" It is always a delicate dance between using lldb from the command-line, or dealing with XCode.