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authorPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-02-01 21:30:14 +0200
committerPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-02-01 21:30:14 +0200
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@@ -35,110 +35,110 @@ You won't find any links on this site because, over time, the links will break.
In random order:
-* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
+* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
+* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
+* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
-* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
+* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
+* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
-* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
-* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
+* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
-* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
+* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
+* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
+* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
+* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
-* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
+* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
+* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
+* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
-* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
-* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
-* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
-* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
+* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
-* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
-* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
-* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
-* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
-* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
-* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
-* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
-* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
-* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
+* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
## Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
-* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
-* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
-* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
-* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
-* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
-* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
+* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
+* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
+* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
+* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
+* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
## Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
-* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
-* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
+* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
+* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
+* Getting Things Done; David Allen
+* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
+* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
+* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
+* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
+* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
-* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
+* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
-* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
+* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
+* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
-* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
-* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
-* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
-* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
-* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
-* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
-* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
-* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
-* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
-* Getting Things Done; David Allen
-* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
+* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
-* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
-* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
+* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
+* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
+* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
-* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
+* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
-* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
-* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
-* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
-* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
[Here are notes of mine for some of the books](../notes/index.md)
@@ -146,30 +146,30 @@ In random order:
Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
-* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
+* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
+* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
+* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
-* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
-* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
-* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
+* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
-* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
-* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
+* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
+* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
-* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
-* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
-* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
-* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
+* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
-* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
+* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
+* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
## Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
+* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
## Podcasts
@@ -177,58 +177,58 @@ These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very use
In random order:
-* Maintainable
+* Cup o' Go [Golang]
+* Dev Interrupted
* Wednesday Wisdom
-* Fallthrough [Golang]
-* The Changelog Podcast(s)
-* Pratical AI
+* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
-* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
+* Maintainable
* Modern Mentor
+* BSD Now [BSD]
* Backend Banter
-* Dev Interrupted
-* Hidden Brain
-* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
+* Pratical AI
* Fork Around And Find Out
-* BSD Now [BSD]
-* Cup o' Go [Golang]
+* The Changelog Podcast(s)
+* Hidden Brain
+* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
+* Fallthrough [Golang]
### Podcasts I liked
I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.
-* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
-* FLOSS weekly
* Modern Mentor
+* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
* Java Pub House
-* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
+* Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
+* FLOSS weekly
## Newsletters I like
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
* byteSizeGo
-* The Imperfectionist
-* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
-* The Pragmatic Engineer
-* Ruby Weekly
* The Valuable Dev
* Changelog News
+* The Imperfectionist
+* The Pragmatic Engineer
+* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
* VK Newsletter
-* Golang Weekly
-* Register Spill
+* Ruby Weekly
* Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+* Register Spill
+* Golang Weekly
* Monospace Mentor
## Magazines I like(d)
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
-* Linux User
+* LWN (online only)
* Linux Magazine
+* Linux User
* freeX (not published anymore)
-* LWN (online only)
# Formal education
diff --git a/gemfeed/2026-02-02-tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts.md b/gemfeed/2026-02-02-tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts.md
index d269e37b..82628ac8 100644
--- a/gemfeed/2026-02-02-tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts.md
+++ b/gemfeed/2026-02-02-tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
* [⇢ ⇢ Why I built this](#why-i-built-this)
* [⇢ ⇢ What it is](#what-it-is)
* [⇢ ⇢ How it works (overview)](#how-it-works-overview)
+* [⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Workflow diagram](#workflow-diagram)
* [⇢ ⇢ Challenges and small discoveries](#challenges-and-small-discoveries)
* [⇢ ⇢ Test cases (for a future rewrite)](#test-cases-for-a-future-rewrite)
* [⇢ ⇢ (Almost) works with any editor (or any TUI)](#almost-works-with-any-editor-or-any-tui)
@@ -55,6 +56,23 @@ bind-key e run-shell -b "tmux display-message -p '#{pane_id}'
\"~/scripts/tmux-edit-send /tmp/tmux-edit-target-#{client_pid}\""
```
+### Workflow diagram
+
+This is the whole workflow:
+
+```
+┌────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐
+│ Cursor input box │-->| tmux keybind │-->| popup runs script │-->| capture + prefill │
+│ (prompt pane) │ │ prefix + e │ │ tmux-edit-send │ │ temp file │
+└────────────────────┘ └───────────────┘ └─────────────────────┘ └─────────────────────┘
+ |
+ v
+┌────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────┐
+│ Cursor input box │<--| send-keys back |<--| close editor+popup |<--| edit temp file |
+│ (prompt pane) │ │ to original pane │ │ (exit $EDITOR) │ │ in $EDITOR │
+└────────────────────┘ └────────────────────┘ └────────────────────┘ └────────────────────┘
+```
+
And this is how it looks like after sending back the text to the Cursor Agent's input:
[![Prefilled prompt text](./tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts/demo2.png "Prefilled prompt text")](./tmux-popup-editor-for-cursor-agent-prompts/demo2.png)
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index 7434d241..2446deb6 100644
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Hello!
-> This site was generated at 2026-02-01T21:02:02+02:00 by `Gemtexter`
+> This site was generated at 2026-02-01T21:29:22+02:00 by `Gemtexter`
Welcome to the foo.zone!
diff --git a/uptime-stats.md b/uptime-stats.md
index f55ea987..966fe786 100644
--- a/uptime-stats.md
+++ b/uptime-stats.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# My machine uptime stats
-> This site was last updated at 2026-02-01T21:02:02+02:00
+> This site was last updated at 2026-02-01T21:29:22+02:00
The following stats were collected via `uptimed` on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by `guprecords`, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.