Spike Spike-Leung

`DELETE FROM users WHERE location = 'IRAN';`

Hi! I am an Iranian Software Engineer, and in this torn paper note, I want to talk about some funny moments I had online related to the fact that I was spawned in this specific region of the world: Iran.

Microsoft deleted my app, ignored my mails

Back when I was a student, I got access to the Microsoft Imagine, and as a result, I got access to the Microsoft Store as a developer. This inspired me write one of my open-source projects called EyesGuard and publish it on Microsoft Store. However, one day, somebody told me that they can no longer find EyesGuard on the store.

gptel-manual-complete.el

This is an example of how the existing gptel-rewrite.el file can be used to perform completion on an entire function, replacing what's already written so far in that function.

Setup

To use:

Install gptel: https://github.com/karthink/gptel , configure it, and provide the appropriate

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

	(transient-define-prefix denote-transient ()
	"Denote dispatch"
	[["Note creation (d)"
	("dd" "new note" denote)
	("dj" "new or existing journal entry" denote-journal-new-or-existing-entry)
	("dn" "open or new" denote-open-or-create)
	("dt" "new specifying date and time" denote-date)
	("ds" "create in subdirectory " denote-subdirectory)]
	["Reviewing (r)"
	("rd" "notes this day" aw/notes-this-day)]

	;; By default, Which-key doesn't give much help for prefix-keys. It
	;; either shows the generic description, "+prefix", or the name of a
	;; prefix-command, which usually isn't as descriptive as we'd like.
	;;
	;; Here are some descriptions for the default bindings in `global-map',
	;; `org-mode-map', and Gnus.

	(which-key-add-key-based-replacements
	"<f1> 4" "help-other-win"
	"<f1>" "help"

	;; nano-emacs.el --- NANO Emacs (minimal version) -- lexical-binding: t --

	;; Copyright (c) 2025 Nicolas P. Rougier
	;; Released under the GNU General Public License 3.0
	;; Author: Nicolas P. Rougier <[email protected]>
	;; URL: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

	;; This is NANO Emacs in 256 lines, without any dependency
	;; Usage (command line): emacs -Q -l nano.el -[light\|dark]

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">

	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<title>My Angular from Scratch</title>
	<style>
	.my-component {
	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

	// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
	// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
	(() => {
	const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
	const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
	const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
	const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
	const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

	// sh.mts: javascript shorthand

	// #region array tools
	/** id function (returns first argument) */
	export const id=<T,>(x: T): T=>x
	/** create an array filled with n copies of x */
	export const af=<T,>(n: number, x: T): T[]=>Array(n).fill(x) // TODO: make this 'afl' or 'fil' (aa?)
	/** loop i from 0..n, calling f(i) */
	export const ii=(n: number, f: (i: number)=>void)=>{for(let i=0;i<n;i++)f(i)}
	/** map f over [0..n] */

	# A ctags syntax file for vue components
	--langdef=vue
	--langmap=vue:.vue
	# vue-commands in <template>
	--regex-vue=/^(<template>)$/\1/t,template/{scope=set}{exclusive}
	--regex-vue=/^\S(.(v-if=\|v-for=\|v-show=\|ref=)("[^"]*"))/\2\3/c,vue-command/{scope=ref}
	--regex-vue=/^(<\/template>)$/\1//{scope=pop}{exclusive}{placeholder}
	# css in <template>
	--regex-vue=/^(<style.*)$/style/s,script/{scope=set}{exclusive}
	--regex-vue=/^(<\/style>)$/\1//{scope=clear}{placeholder}