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Russ Cox created libtask, a similar library that runs on multiple UNIXes (UNIXEN?). Based on the COPYRIGHT file, it may be based on libthread. https://swtch.com/libtask/ It’s a gre…

Split Fiction has a couple of mechanisms that make it accessible for people who are not experienced gamers. There is a general "reduce damage done by enemies" setting that make dod…

Wake from that nightmare and wrap your angle brackets with MCP so you can start hallucinating: https://github.com/AustinWise/mcp2ws (This program is for comedy purposes only)

Some other interesting tools in the space. Rust is using a tool called Josh to sync commits: https://josh-project.dev The blog post from the Rust people: https://blog.rust-lang.org…

I wonder if they don’t include all the application compatibility stuff in LTSC. It would be a good way to make the version work for its intended purpose (as part of a larger applia…

I think for a very specific audience the article is useful: an English speaker who is in the first month of learning Japanese and is having trouble understanding the basics of Japa…

There is https://ianbarber.blog/feed

> people who block everyone out by default, passively and indiscriminately, contributes to social rust rather than trust I'll turn this around: when I see people wearing headphones…

You say “as long as it's not clearly harassment” as if that is uncommon. Outside of giving directions at train stations, the times when a stranger has started talking to me in publ…

That's funny about your last line about Messenger. When I was at Facebook in 2020 and 2021 I thought the "Lightspeed" version of Messenger [1] was something of an engineering marve…

They had almost $9 billion in cash on hand at the end of April 2026. And net income of $2 billion. So they afforded it pretty easily. https://investor.salesforce.com/financials/qua…

And a lot of the time pressing back will take you to some other article on the website instead of where you came from. Because the site used history.pushState in JavaScript to mani…

I suspect you are right that LLM-generated software will likely negatively impact people's lives. The flip side of this is there is going to be a lot of software generated that wou…

To make this more concrete, the Chromium source code browser has a subset of the functionality of the internal Code Search tool. For example, you can left click on symbols to go to…

To put a name to it, “biphasic sleep” used to be more common: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...

Eh, at least for people consuming .NET apps compiled with NativeAOT, the experience is similar. Applications can be compiled as a single file with no dependancies. A hello world in…

I understand the stated reasons and disagree with their conclusions. It seems like a lot of extra work on the part of the Zig developers to have to reverse engineer undocumented in…

The best statement of whether or not calling functions in ntdll is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/k... > documentation for the WDK and Windows SDK…

> I wonder how much of this problem was caused by lack of adequate documentation describing how an installer should behave, and how much was developers not reading that documentati…

In addition to reason in the article, one thing I’ve noticed among some executives and product managers is their experience using LLM coding tools causes them to lose respect for h…

There is a middle ground between using XML and imperative code for representing tax forms. Robert Sesek’s ustaxlib [0] uses JavaScript to encode the forms in a way that is reasonab…

Rejecting a PR for being overly complicated or difficult to understand is valid. Breaking a large change into understandable pieces is an important skill both for making changes re…

The link on GitHub to the real site is marked with rel="nofollow". I wonder if it would make sense for GitHub to remove nofollow in some circumstances. Perhaps based on some sort o…

By their self reporting, people are already dying in ICE custody. Looking a few reports, it a common occurrence is someone starts having a heart attack and EMS does not arrive unti…

Yeah, the article's claim of having a low number of lines of code are disingenuous. Rather than writing some sort of plugin interface, it has "skills" that are a combination of pre…