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I'm a veteran calcium oxalate stone former; I've ended up in hospital three times because of them, and my last scan showed I currently am carrying 16 of them, (plus 3 bonus bladder…

The Picol code has always been a fascinating read, until you get to the comment /* XXX: escape handling missing! */ and realise it won't escape/eval stuff inside strings, so you th…

Nice start, in the same simple-is-good spirit as https://thinktype.app/ If you switch between browsers and machines, how do you transport/export/import/backup the localStorage cont…

Justine's posts are always worth reading, even if their subject is outside your normal area of interest.

Piece tables used in text editors https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2...

What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized? I don't like ads, on the internet or TV, and therefore refuse to inflict them on a…

I was once told, by a car rental chap, that the rental companies don't make money renting out cars; instead, they make money by putting some miles on the cars in their fleet, and t…

Genius. How can any programmer be bored on a Sunday when there are things like this. What a time to be alive.

Interesting, but it made me wonder - are there any programming languages that you can use with a proportional font? Python would not be on the list...

Me too! Pascal has a natural "flow" that I lost when I transitioned to C.

Okay, roughly in the same boat here. Every time I'm deep in a project, I start looking wistfully at other 2D game engines and seemingly waste a few days looking through the docs an…