Chris DeLuca

My CLI wrapped most used commands.

  1. 3732 git
  2. 1471 ls
  3. 1289 rg
  4. 856 ddev
  5. 745 nvim
  6. 546 mv
  7. 534 cd
  8. 510 rm
  9. 477 yarn
  10. 453 cat

Generated with history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head -10.

After exhaustive research and countless hours over nights and weekends, I’ve compiled the authoritative demographic info on the audience for each vi derivative.

  1. Neovim: devs wanting a hackable IDE
  2. Vim: sysadmins who work primarily over remote terminals
  3. Vi: FreeBSD devs
  4. Ed: The criminally insane

Well, I’ve watched all of Taskmaster UK. I don’t think I’m going for the other countries, at least not for a while. In the meantime, I keep hearing the task music in my head when I’m cleaning.

While sorting through old papers, I found a copy of the first cover letter I wrote out of collage.

Auto-generated description: A humorous letter requests a job to afford duct tape for living in a cardboard box, with a resume enclosed.

I was trying to score a writing gig, and knew absolutely nothing about anything. I walked around NYC in a suit and handed out this cover letter and a resume with can’t-not-hire credits like, “wrote for my collage paper” to doormen at The Daily Show and Late Night and places like that. I tried to mask my inexperience with a funny cover letter, which, like Carmex on a blister, only servered to highlight it.

The whole thing was, of course, phenomenally ineffective. On the plus side, only several people openly laughed in my face.

The cover letter did give me a chuckle now almost twenty years later, so I’ll take that as a personal win.

Here’s the letter transcribed in its entirety.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please give me a job. I have recently graduated college with an English Degree, and am currently living in a cardboard box. I would like to purchase some duct tape to waterproof said cardboard box, but in today’s unstable economy it runs as high as $4.00, which is well outside my budget. If you could give me a position paying between twenty and thirty dollars a year, it would really help me out. Obviously, I would prefer a job paying at least $100,000.00 a tear, as I could by a lifetime supply of duct tape. Please respond as soon as possible, as the box is getting rather mushy.

Enclosed is my resume. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Christopher DeLuca
Auto-generated description: A spiral notebook page filled with various black ink doodles, including abstract shapes, faces, and text, rests on a wooden floor with other notebooks underneath.

Found some old doodles while cleaning out old notebooks.
A cute kitty sitting on a blanket with tigers on it. Hat on a hat? Bad. Cat on a cat? The best. 🐱

After being very sick for almost two weeks (and still on a shaky recovery), I’ve started some winter cleaning. I love throwing things out. 🗑️

Finished reading: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark 📚

Currently reading: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark 📚

Finished reading: Outrageous by Kliph Nesteroff 📚

Love rob reich The 10 Biggest Myths About Our Economy.

We are deep into cat cuddle season. 🐱

Auto-generated description: A tortoiseshell cat is peacefully sleeping while nestled against a person’s arm.

Auto-generated description: A black and white photo shows a cat peacefully resting its head on a person’s leg, next to patterned pillows.

Auto-generated description: A cat is nestled under a cozy blanket, looking to the side.

Auto-generated description: A tortoiseshell cat is lounging on a person’s arm on a bed with patterned blankets.

Sunning butt to butt. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Two cats, one tortie one tuxedo, sitting on top of a red couch, droopy eyes, in a big sun spot, loafing with their butts up against each other.

Jedda posted a collection of quotes I really liked.

This one in particular is speaking to me right now.

“A healthy relationship is one where two independent people just make a deal that they will help make the other person be the best version of themselves.” -Lewis Howes

I am hosting a copy of My Immortal, the infamous fanfic, over at myimmortalrehost.com. I have more improvements planned, and I’ll write more about it in depth, but if anyone has initial feedback I’d love to hear it.

I may like my code editor a lot. #neovim

Me, an aging white guy, wearing a black hoodie with the Neovim symbol on the front.

Got these dope foil local magic the gathering stickers. Now, where to put them…

Two foil stickers that say “mtg astoria “ above a drawing of maybe the hellgate bridge.

Getting into Zamrock, starting with Viva Ngozi by Ngozi Family. I’m all about it. Anyone have other Zamrock suggestions? 🎵

Today I’m featured on Manuel morales People & Blogs. Thanks to Manuel for having me, and for consistently supporting the small web with this segment.
A photo of a super cute kitty loafing on a couch, staring right into the lense.

Good evening, it’s Kitty o’clock. 🐈

I’m very excited that I’ll be giving my first session at Flordia DrupalCamp 2025: Grokking Git. Hope to see you there! #drupal #git #lullabot

I saw a lone employee in a fancy SoHo clothing store called “No Standing”. As must be the corporate mandate, she was sitting.

Podcast wrapped.

It’s that time of year again: cram in medical appointments before January.

Debra Lawal has an excellent essay on gender bias in hard work vs natural talent.

As a dude and a senior software developer, let me say unequivocally that I have no natural talent. Like, zero. Any skill I have is through effort, and I’m not unique in that way.