#173 — February 12, 2026 by Evan Chen

If anyone wants to follow the T-Mobile struggle bus, here's the link. I think at some point I'll make it into a blog post just for comedic effect.

#172 — February 10, 2026 by Evan Chen

I finally got around to cleaning up INSTALL.sh in my dotfiles and it feels so much better. That file was an utter mess for the longest time.

#171 — February 8, 2026 by Evan Chen

EWD 854 and EWD 1036 talk about the dangers of trying to make predictions about the future by using analogies to the past. Actually I feel like I haven't heard many other people say the same thing.

What happens if I tune out all predictions about radically new territory which are justified with a comparison to the past? Is that ignoring history?

#170 — February 8, 2026 by Evan Chen

TIL the story of Čech and higher homotopy groups. Bit of a sad story.

#169 — February 8, 2026 by Evan Chen

Nobody told me about tmux being able to detach (like nohup). I'd always assumed it was just something like a window manager inside the terminal. Glad to learn something new.