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The author uses Windows Terminal and tmux over SSH to connect to a remote machine, automatically starting tmux and zsh in a new tab.

They use zoxide for fuzzy directory navigation and zsh history completion to quickly form commands.

A custom tmux key binding runs a regex search in copy mode to find file paths in scrollback and highlight them.

uv is an all-in-one Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing tools like pip, poetry, virtualenv, and more

It offers 10–100× faster performance than pip through a Rust-based implementation

Provides comprehensive project management with lockfiles, workspaces, and reproducible environments

US Embassy in Dublin now requires all social media usernames or handles from every platform used in the past five years on F, M, and J visa applications.

Applicants must set their social media profiles to public and disclose this information or face visa denial and future ineligibility.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and student union body AMLÉ describe the measures as excessive, invasive, creating fear, and risking self-censorship among students and activists.

Voyager 1 and 2 encountered a boundary called the heliopause, measuring a ‘wall of fire’ with temperatures between 30,000 and 50,000 kelvin.

The heliopause marks where the Sun’s solar wind pressure balances against the interstellar medium, forming the edge of the heliosphere.

Voyager 1 crossed this boundary in August 2012, and Voyager 2 followed in 2018, at differing distances due to solar activity variations.

The House Chief Administrative Officer banned WhatsApp on all House-managed devices due to data security risks and lack of transparency in data protection.

The Office of Cybersecurity flagged WhatsApp as high-risk because it doesn’t encrypt stored data and poses potential security vulnerabilities.

Staffers must remove WhatsApp and use approved alternatives like Microsoft Teams, Wickr, Signal, iMessage, or FaceTime.

TRAMP remote file operations are slow by default; basic settings like disabling locks and using scp directly help.

Increase tramp-copy-size-limit (e.g. to 1 MB) so large files use faster out-of-band copying instead of inline base64.

Enable direct asynchronous processes in TRAMP 2.7 to speed up packages like Magit and Git-Gutter.

Radio Garden link to a San Jose, CA station

Station name is Echoplex Radio

Provides online streaming of Echoplex Radio

Claude Code VSCode extension integrates Claude AI into Visual Studio Code

Requires separate Claude Code installation and VS Code version 1.98.0 or higher

Features include auto-installation, adding selected text to context, diff viewing in VSCode, keyboard shortcuts, and awareness of open tabs

Recreation of the 1997 LEGO Island game to run in modern web browsers using Emscripten

Project built on original decompilation and portable versions with contributions from many developers

Open-source code available for the web frontend, decompilation core, portable version, launcher, and editing tools

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