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The question was asked once again: "so I'm writing some code into REPL and seeing the results, but that's not very convenient". I decided to write a small intro on how to do interactive development (a.k.a. REPL-driven development) more conveniently.

At the time of the interview veteran General Heitor Hamilton Almendra was 92 years old, but you could never tell it by his lively spirit and vivid memory. It was a rare honor to be able to bring some of his stories to a broader audience.

Another one bites the dust.

In the village one of the sergeants remarked, without hiding his emotion, that 'the young women are good'. The sergeant's words set all the others on fire like a spark, and then he threw off his overcoat and moved on one of the women: — Row, lads! In front of the aksakals and the children, our internationalists had their way with the women. The rape went on for two hours. The children huddled in a corner, screaming and shrieking, trying to help their mothers somehow. The old men, trembling, prayed to their God for mercy and salvation. Then the sergeant commanded, "Fire!" - and was the first to shoot the woman he had just raped. Quickly they finished off all the others as well. Then they poured fuel from the tank of the infantry fighting vehicle, poured it all over the dead bodies, covered them with some clothes, rags and even the scanty wooden furniture and set them on fire. The flames flared up inside the adobe...".

Neat, ha? If this wasn't propaganda I would almost admire the cunning and elegance. So the media reaction to the largest war since WW2 with literally thousands over thousands of documented war crimes is called "hysteria" and the crimes themselves are "alleged", unproven, maybe non-existent.

I have spent a few hours today making sure that my emails get delivered to my offline inbox as soon as they appear on the server, and that this happens for each of my email accounts.

Git hooks are small bash scripts that are run each time a certain git event happens. The most popular hooks in our projects are pre-commit and pre-push. Let us show you how to optimize and manage these using babashka

I'm not going to concentrate on all the ways posting this was wrong. I expect there will be a shit storm strong enough without my five cents. In the spirit of this blog I'm more interested in the questions relating to thinking and knowledge. And there's an obvious one.

Writing is a tool. And as any good tool it can be used for many things. Sharing information. Telling stories. Messaging. Influencing people to make the choice you want them to make. All these uses were clear to me for a long time, and they all were pretty self-explanatory.