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There is something captivating in these old pictures that elevates them to pieces of art rather than just computer graphics. The sheer amount of work that went into crafting them m…

If you want to learn how HM typechecking works by studying working (Haskell) code, I would recommend the papers below. The code in these papers is closer to how you would actually …

My sentiments exactly. The problem is that also traditional media now amplifies this negativity. A bleak world view is now the norm. Things have been much worse in recent past but …

S.P.Y. Special Project Y ad is my absolute favorite. Maximum 80s vibes : - D

We Finns especially struggle with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxWwdeGz1Q

Being old enough to have used both Microsoft and Borland development tools back in the 90s, I think Borland was clearly ahead of the game in Windows development. GUI development wi…

Shameless plug of my own tool. If you want to write literate programs in TypeScript, check out https://johtela.github.io/litscript/ There is also a VSCode syntax highlighting exten…

You can agree or disagree about the design decisions made by people contributing to Haskell language, but you have to admit that it's a pretty clever bunch of people. Haskell has c…

I live less than 100 km away from Olkiluoto nuclear plant, and I have never been worried about its safety. I wonder why this incident ever got any publicity outside Finland. Even h…

For sure there is need for programming language research. Language designers benefit greatly from the work done by the academia - for example in the area of type systems. But, OTOH…

Rather than spending a lot of time building a router table, I recommend making a Samurai Carpenter's router jig [1] which is far simpler to make, and more useful in most woodworkin…

> Broad phase collision detection usually involves three lists of the bounding boxes of the objects, ordered by X, Y, and Z. Exactly. You first want to limit the set of objects tha…

I have to admit that I haven't used Kakoune myself. I just like its approach of taking the good parts of Vim and adapting them to more "mainstream" style of editing. Because Kakoun…

OP here. I completely agree with that. The goal of ModalEdit is not to emulate those verb-noun commands. VS Code's commands operate on selections, so it is very cumbersome to turn …

Delphi is ancient - as am I. My first FOSS published in Internet was written Delphi in 1996: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/authors/a0000824.htm

The mainstream media conflates them as well, so the point of the article is valid.

I've been using my own property based testing framework https://johtela.github.io/LinqCheck/ for .NET projects and jsverify ( https://github.com/jsverify/jsverify ) for Typescript …

This article sums up all the reasons why I think documenting your code is important. But unlike the author, I take my comments one step further and generate documentation from them…