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Website contributor here! Answering some of the technical questions on Twitter: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/1826425720522080480

Oh hey =D The ring's source code in particular had to be transcribed from an actual shader I made ( https://www.shadertoy.com/view/msd3R2 ). I didn't have the patience to write it …

Yeah I was only talking about quantities. Equivalently, assume that it's a linear algorithm in the child and a linear one in the parent. Ultimately it ends up as O(nm) being some b…

It's more than that. The way black box composition is done in modern software, your n=100 code (say, a component) gets reused into a another thing somewhere above, and now you're b…

Quite a few APIs use a pair of `{start, length}` instead, which in the context of the post's example, is even clearer. Empty interval would be `length == 0`, time interval would be…

Personally I feel that Cappuccino is one of the last frameworks that still cared about a kind of interaction design that’s no longer discussed on the web, replaced mostly by more d…

No not really. It’s just a bunch of spans styles

Some upcoming languages like Zig and Jai have features to allow you to easily switch from array-of-structures to structure-of-arrays at writing time ( https://www.youtube.com/watch…

I help maintain ReScript ( https://rescript-lang.org ) and we've been rolling without an import statement for years now (basically OCaml's module system). The default is to just wr…

Jai is, imo, doing it right! For custom iteration one really _just_ wants it to be a little syntax sugar over a regular loop. Most other languages end up constructing some paradigm…

In case this isn't clear, RefTerm is: 1. Faster in every case tested 2. More fully-featured, including i18n 3. Easier to read and maintain (see for yourself) 4. Shorter 5. Using ex…

Related, on HN recently: How Doctors Die. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685244