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It will run locally in a web browser, it’s open source and if I recall correctly the authors provide a downloadable way to serve it from your local machine.

The page doesn’t say it, but this is why adding redundant safety systems and defense in depth stops working after a while - such systems end up running with (acceptable, unobserved…

Even if you’re not interested in making your own music with Strudel, this site is worth a visit for the showcase. A lot of folks are making a lot of interesting music with it!

I think this is part of a lighter weight Kubernetes alternative.

Palladium magazine is published by The American Governance Foundation. I couldn’t find out much about it by Googling, does anybody know what its deal is?

UXN / Varvara (a project by these folks) is something really special https://100r.co/site/uxn.html - an approach to creating intelligible software by applying strict complexity con…

I ran the interview team for TripleByte FastTrack early on (I’m not part of or in touch with the otherbranch folks) and I’m excited to see something like it return! The program was…

Software tools backed by businesses that target enterprises have very strong pressures towards obscurity, complexity, and generally optimizing for institutional goals and away from…

Something this article leaves out is that mostly, when people are given better tools, they don’t just produce more widgets per unit time: often instead they build different (more c…

This movie is a lot of fun, and a great window into its moment.

I have managed to make a lot of these mistakes, and they’re lead to scary outages and bummers. This is a pretty great article.

Getting recursive functions into ALGOL turns out to have been a controversial move that made for a fun story: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-...

An alternative query language for PostgreSQL would be a wonderful thing! But it isn’t clear that’s what this is.

This isn’t an open source project (which isn’t a bad thing! Just a non-obvious thing if you don’t scroll down their whole readme)

If I’m reading this correctly, the Frink language has similar features (and also seems darn useful!) https://frinklang.org/

There are a bunch of common workloads (including i’m guessing HN itself) where the trade offs for distributed databases make them a lot harder to use well, or where distributed dat…

I’m not seeing “require” in this document. It looks like the document is proposing education and funding for memory safe projects here.

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I think the poster means that adding null is a big, substantial change to the interface - if you have a function that used to not make sense with a null argument, and then it sudde…

_why offered a vision of computing, art and delight that we could maybe use more of nowadays. For more reference see “This Hack Was Not Properly Planned” here: https://web.archive.…

I’ve known a bunch of folks who were really good at network cable management, none of whom were full time network techs. When I try to imitate them, my cabling ends up a total mess…

You should read this if you’re a programmer or someone who makes things. It’s fun and silly, but also makes an important point - the stuff you build is giving somebody power, and i…

If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and …