I came across this article on Hackernews by Richard Nordquist on Soft Language. This is one of those articles I read and it wasn't apparent that this would resonate with me as hard as it did. I've heard of concepts like the "euphemism treadmill" before but this is the first time I'm thinking of language being soft. Is it better to use "hard" language? Is it more honest? Or do we just need to be more cognizant of not softening our language unintentionally?

Emacs Org-Mode tables are very powerful. The formula editor can execute elisp commands which makes for a really powerful spreadsheet editor (especially when combined with org-sbe). One big limitation I've faced is multi-line content. To solve this I've created a simple function to wrap around results of some elisp block to always return the most useful data. (org-table-create-and-insert-reference "hello") -> "hello" (org-table-create-and-insert-reference "") -> "nil" (org-table-create-and-insert-reference nil) -> "nil"

I was lucky enough to get to compete in the Northsec CTF this weekend with the cold_root team. We ended up placing 4th out of 88 teams. There was a ton of awesome (and maddening) challenges and plenty of Malört consumed. The challenges showed up on a fantasy themed forum: Scammed Again The first thing I did was go to the web page to find that it was a chat dialogue with an enchanter named….