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For project-based tutorials/books, which are centred around building a program step-by-step by following a series of human-readable diffs, I think a tool is very much needed. For h…

Just finished the stack machine, very nice work. Love the presentation and the code is beautiful. Looking forward to future snacks!

Sounds like you may enjoy My Rails Blob: http://railsblob.blogspot.ca/2006/08/my-new-blob.html

See https://github.com/snaptoken/kilo-tutorial/issues/4 You may have a broken version of the font locally. If you download the offline version of the tutorial, it'll come with all …

It seems to be doing fine now, but you can always download a local copy (it's all static HTML) from https://github.com/snaptoken/kilo-tutorial/releases

Well, you could distribute your encrypted wallet as widely as you want, without worrying about theft or loss (if you have a good passphrase and spread the wallet to enough location…

Aw, I was hoping to see that slave mode was fixed. I want to use slave mode to make a music player with my own user interface and library/playlist manager in Ruby without having to…

I don't know if this works for everyone, (and I hate to appeal to magic), but I'm pretty sure it was http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-3.htm... that gave me a …

Jan. 2013 was _why's first reappearance. He had actually updated his website with the first couple entries in the print queue in December, but no one noticed until January. After p…

thdvl also changed the SPOOL/SOLICIT file to a bunch of base64, which decodes to a gif image, which is of a QR code that points to the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistulae_mo…

If anyone wants to hook their actual printer up to _why's queue (which I'm pretty sure is what he intended), iandennismiller transcribed the OCaml program in SPOOL/HOMEWORK which p…

It's a little taller, but it still looks like an o to me. If you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Meo it says "This video is unavailable", which means that a video did …

Heh, not knowing Java very well, I scoured the BigInteger docs for quirks and loopholes, then gave up and found your comment. I guess "java.security.SecureRandom" sounded too impre…

He also created a language of his own which was inspired by Io: http://github.com/fogus/potion (and here's the pamphlet: http://runciter.net/potion )

yes, the story is told by shack_a_nerd: http://shack-a-nerd.livejournal.com/70594.html

I talked to the guy who did the interview a month ago and told him about the problem and advised him to change it to why.usesthis.com and his last words were "you know, i think i m…

not quite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo_(programming_language)

I tried looking at http://whytheluckystiff.net on archive.org but he was why the lucky stiff throughout.

Wow, I can't believe I thought it was "Plastic Cups" all this time. Thanks stephencelis, I've edited my comment. Edit: ah, now I remember. It's because in chapter 4 of the poignant…