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See also time & space - a Lua interpreter starts about 3-10x as fast as Python, and takes 1100k of RAM to Python's 4M. This matters on a small machine like a Raspberry Pi.

Right now I'm on Arch Linux because it feels like a good balance of bleeding edge packages/flexibility/power-user elitism (meaning it caters to my desires as a software engineer), …

It does indeed do ellipses - just pass a falsey value for forceAspect in the constructor options and it will let you select an arbitrary ellipse. You can also pass a float value fo…

I made this a couple of weekends ago, and since 2048 went over so well I thought I'd post it here.

Not everyone is interested in taking the time to make themselves a whole meal every day. I know I'm not: I don't derive a lot of pleasure from food of any kind beyond a limited amo…

I have similar feelings to you about the fiddliness of games based on life. A few years back, it inspired me to build this as an experiment in unfiddly GoL play: https://github.com…

Car/renter/life insurance, plumbers, etc: the "boring" services of life. Which ones have good tech? This turns out to be surprisingly hard to research. I just had to buy a new car …

As everyone else is saying, it's still a pretty uncrowded namespace and the 'IO as in input/output' thing is great for B2D or D2D sites. More concretely, it's a way for me to have …

Shameless plug for my own solution, curmudgeon: https://github.com/lharding/Curmudgeon So, yes. :)

I second/third/47th the recommendations for Thinkpads. Everything people say here regarding graphics drivers is true, unfortunately. You will have problems with pulseaudio hosing v…