[Wed Aug 28 10:19:30 CDT 2019]

My son recently shared with me the link to a blog entry by Michael Stapelberg titled Linux package managers are slow which is an interesting read. It seems clear that the package manager used by Alpine Linux beats everybody else by a far margin, although I'd say Debian doesn't perform so bad overall, especially taking into account that it may be the oldest package manager on the roster. In any case, the author makes a couple of good points about the possible reasons behind the slowness: too much metadata and lack of concurrency. It's an interesting read. {link to this entry}

[Thu Aug 8 11:16:08 CDT 2019]

A couple of tips for mutt users. First of all, today I wondered what the meaning of a single "S" as a message status flag might be. The explanation, of course, is in their very extensive and comprehensive documentation (here). Basically, it means that the message in question has been signed and the signature has been successfully verified. Then, playing around with email threads and searching for info, I discovered this, and basically borrowed the following configuration lines to change the default key bindings:

bind index - collapse-thread
bind index _ collapse-all