Lunches at work are usually nothing to write about, however every now
and then, we get an external restaurant that makes a memorable dish. A couple
of weeks ago, that was the Cajun shrimp po’boy. The sandwich was relatively
simple: a toasted baguette, a big of mayonnaise, some shredded lettuce, and
seasoned Cajun shrimp, however the taste was amazing. I had an inkling about
the origin of the name po’boy, but the price of the sandwich betrayed that thinking.
A bit of research on the web revealed a couple of origin stories. The most plausible
and heartwarming was on Wikipedia:
that during a 1929 street car workers’ strike, restaurant owners served the
sandwich to their striking colleagues for free, jokingly referring to the
strikers as poor boys, after which the sandwiches took the name, and in the Louisiana
dialect shortened to po’boy.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has come a long way—especially under Windows 11 . WSL2 now offers smooth integration for Linux graphical applications, making it feel less like a compatibility layer and more like a native experience. But if you're an Emacs user, you might have noticed something off. Launching Emacs under WSL can feel like stepping into a time machine. Tiny fonts, washed-out visuals, and a UI that evokes the green-and-amber glow of vintage terminals. Functional? Yes. Pleasant? Absolutely not. But here's the good news: it is easy to make Emacs under WSL2 look just as sharp and modern as it does on Mac OSX . The emacs-pgtk build is designed for better graphical integration under WSL. It uses the Pure GTK interface , which plays nicely with WSL’s GUI support. sudo apt install emacs-pgtk To make Emacs look great, we’ll use Windows’ rich font library. First, edit your font configuration: sudo emacs /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and add the Windows Font directory...
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