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I love this :)

We'll still use that 0.5% for something else, right? It's not as if power generation (and emissions) will be reduced.

Why is that? To be clear the lack of “shared” dependencies does not necessitate code duplication. By shared dependencies I’m talking about languages (Haskell for example) where onl…

Use a modular view/component, or a class using tailwind's @apply directive. It's the best of both worlds.

Can you give an example of why you need non-terminating semantics? Programs can still be run "forever", if they are run for each input while maintaining terminating semantics for d…

No higher order functions means that you cannot make a function that takes another function as input or returns a function as output. I would prefer a programming language to be si…

The diamond dependency problem is easy to avoid: Only allow namespaced/qualified includes, no shared libraries. There is no need for a package manager if the runtime does the work …

Databases are useful. Look at Datalog and SQL and you're looking at a language that does very useful stuff without user-defined types, higher-order functions, recursion, etc.

You don't solve the halting problem. You don't introduce it in the first place by making a Turing complete language. Datalog is terminating. Programming languages don't have to all…

- One executable that is the runtime, accepting one argument: the source code file. - No linters. Code is auto-formatted. - No modules. Includes can be namespaced/aliased. - No pac…

It doesn’t have to be either or. Provide a toggle for the user to choose their preference.

You don’t have to have a passion. It may be more helpful to understand “do what you love” to mean “don’t spend your time doing something you hate or living for other people”.

I use https://sumi.news (I made it).

Nope, they are not your iCloud password. Keys for E2E items are kept on device and then there’s a process to join a signing circle for syncing. What this means in practice is to sy…

Nothing, as far as I can tell. End-to-end encrypted history and tabs, and recent versions with iCloud+ use encrypted DNS and VPN (iCloud private relay) that uses encrypted forwardi…

Their iCloud security page says “Safari History, Tab Groups, and iCloud Tabs” is end-to-end encrypted. So they store history to sync across devices but the keys are only on your de…

Safari history and tabs are end-to-end encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 And Apple provides iCloud+ members with a VPN which does not tie browsing history to user…

Yeah, it's a separate file. But because I'm using tailwindcss, the HTML actually has a huge number of classes. I'm not sure how much that matters with compression though.

I should add that this depends on your subscribed sources. My page is ~13KB today, but it could be up to ~60KB if you have a lot of headlines. Most of the HTML is actually tailwind…

https://sumi.news HTML is ~14KB when transferred with compression. The CSS is ~30KB. I could probably slash that in half if I optimized.

What I did when I started was respond to job postings and offer the same contribution as an hourly service, using a weekly retainer of 10-20 hours (remote). It worked well. Compani…

Software can’t be delivered on time (it can).

I’ve used PayPal to accept payments in non-Stripe countries. Even for Stripe-supported countries PayPal is probably an easier checkout experience because most customers just have t…