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samdoshion Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM

I think you can download the EPO file manually.

https://github.com/StevenMaude/armstrong

https://github.com/StevenMaude/epo-bin

samdoshion Winding down my Debian involvement

Nix / NixOS[1], and Gentoo[2] also use monorepos with some provision for overlays.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

2: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

samdoshion A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

It's very active. Just on the `develop` branch.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop

samdoshion The Mac Pro Lives

This feels very reactionary to me.

That fact that the new Mac Pros will not be out till next year makes it sound like they've only started working on it quite recently, perhaps in response to the furore over their treatment of their professional users.

samdoshion XMonad 0.13 released

There is a (recent) video from Ethan Schoonover demonstrating his config.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IxjLEmomg

samdoshion XMonad 0.13 released

There is a BSP based layout[1] in xmonad-contrib. You can resize it using the mouse or the keyboard (with appropriate configuration).

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs...

samdoshion Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO

It's not Dropbox, but SyncThing does support a `.stignore` file.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

samdoshion Kinesis Advantage 2

You could always 3D print your own one...

https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard

Bonus points for having used Clojure to design it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4

samdoshion Background Music, an OS X audio utility

There is also BeardedSpice which is a Mac native menubar app, works with lots of websites, YouTube included.

http://beardedspice.github.io/

samdoshion Introducing Kindle Oasis

> it feels way more natural to press a button than make a slide motion, to the point where you don't even realize you're pressing the button after a few pages of immersive reading, unlike the slide action which breaks the continuity

You probably know this already, but on my PW1, you only need to tap the right hand side of the screen to go forward a page, and similarly, you tap the left hand side to go back a page.

samdoshion State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016

> The beginner parts were _a_ gap, but they weren't the only gap. In fact, none of the existing books really went very far beyond Monad, with only RWH covering monad transformers.

Having finally got productive using Haskell (on my second attempt at learning it), I can concur, if you're an already seasoned programmer, you need to grok transformers and mtl before you'll feel as useful as you are elsewhere.