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Doc excerpts, as a teaser: - SDF JKL layout keeps me on home row, ready to type Forth. - 39 columns source text to fit the C64 screen. - `0 prof` patches the first instruction to a…

(The article is permalinked to a tag, for latest:) Deep-dive: https://github.com/ekipan/sss/blob/main/Design.md Repo front page: https://github.com/ekipan/sss The Silent Soviet Sta…

> - Function composition was being used as a binary operator between two functions. You just replaced the infix notation with prefix notation. That's incorrect. Here's the definiti…

From the article: length = foldr (+) 0 . map (const 1) length2d = foldr (+) 0 . map length -- and the proposed syntax the author calls more readable: length = foldr((+), 0, $) . ma…

Yeah, this. Plus a mistake from the article: $ echo '*\n!.gitignore' > build/.gitignore The \n won't be interpreted specially by echo unless it gets the -e option. Personally if I …

"Agreement" of time is probably nonsense, yeah. I realized after posting so I edited in the parenthetical, but as [3] notes, locality probably makes this less of a real issue. Appa…

I forget the context but the other day I also learned about Snowflake IDs [1] that are apparently used by Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Mastodon. Timestamp + random seems like i…

I think everyone agrees with the sentiment but practically speaking that ship sailed decades ago. Browsing the web without uBlock or similar is ill-advised. Morbidly curious, I tur…

> And they keep forgetting the purpose of software is to serve users, not developers. I don't have any horse in the game, but I do think Zig is interesting. This remark is funny to…

Oh, it's a list you can add to your uBO. I thought it was a descriptive headline: "(The) uBlock filter list (is going) to hide ..." I only watch Youtube via browser now for both ad…

It seems to me that AI is mostly optimized for tricking suits into thinking they don't need people to do actual work. If I hear "you're absolutely right!" one more time my eyes mig…

I actually have the below clashes function in my bashrc to detect overloaded names, and a few compgen aliases for sorted formatted command lists. Clashes takes a few seconds to che…

(Edit: in the old post title:) "everything is a value" is not very informative. That's true of most languages nowadays. Maybe "exclusively call-by-value" or "without reference type…

Strange. Middle-clicking the link opens a HackerNews frontpage, but copypasting into a new tab shows the article. Presumably the server shoos away referer links? To reduce load may…

Haskell, then. f x = let y = x + 1 in y + 1 Same deal. In (f 3), y = 4, in (f 7), y = 8. y varies but cannot mutate. Should be a true enough Scottsman.

Mutability is distinct from variability. In Javascript only because it's a pretty widely known syntax: const f = (x) => { const y = x + 1; return y + 1; } y is an immutable variabl…

That makes me sad. I also love Posy's content, I'm using his cursors right now, and this new knowledge that there is some of it I cannot see gives me real consumerist FOMO anxiety.…

Shoutouts to SimpleFlips: https://www.wario.style/s/BRwFnLDe TTYD File Select: https://www.wario.style/s/paznaBKf Chemical Plant Zone: https://www.wario.style/s/L7kD5jJP Robo's The…

Wanted features: (1) a way to preview the original MIDI again from a share link like this so I could still compare. Searching "ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme" found one with the title "ABB…

Cool enough I suppose, but the framing had me expecting the more farty twisted squarenoise instruments like in Wario Lands 1-3, and less smooth sines and squares. I tried out Kimi …

A fine sentiment, and would probably even be somewhat enforceable, as most AI slop is pretty obvious, but I suspect a lot isn't. You'd have to decide where to draw the line. How mu…

I'm sad that Platine Dispositif pulled their games. Chelsea Has to Beat the Seven Devils to Death (known more widely in English as Bunny Must Die) was a lot of fun and one day I'd …

This is a tangent on language semantics (of the English kind) instead of engaging with the (interesting!) narrative on miscompiles. Feel free to skip. > A compiler is a translator …

I confess I'm still pretty new to git. I haven't had a very long time to wed myself to git's index and its presence makes me do extra ceremony that I resent whenever I want to poli…