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There is also the [units] command from UNIX. I think the original was by Ken Thompson (AFAICR). https://www.unix.com/man-page/v7/1/units/ $ units You have: 1 foot candle You want: …

Inspired by nullprogram's recent post on his alternative, libc-less, thread api. I decided to see if I could replicated it in zig. I could, with caveats.

We need to bring ChatGPT into the modern age. Plain ascii text output is a relic of previous century; the domain of the neckbeard!

I write a clone of the unix cmp utility. (spoiler) I use zig SIMD features to make it faster than GNU cmp.

It's an interesting idea. If I had 2 phones I would probably install LineageOS on one of them and use that as my daily driver. Keeping the other phone for banking only.

Many banks have gone this route. Either no online access thru a website or requiring an app on your phone as part of the login process (which amounts to the same thing, no phone ap…

Like many of you, my bank requires me to install a phone app to access my account. I must do this thru the google play store (other libre app stores are not supported). My workarou…

I noticed a void in zig space. A wrapper for the pcre2 (perl regex) library (or any regex library). So I wrote one. I briefly describe how wrapping C libraries works in zig and pro…

Inspired by a recent post on a D macro which generates an unrolled binary search, I wanted to see whether I could do the same thing in zig. I could. Here it is...

Programmers need to stop working for free and stop aiding the normalization of free work. No other profession works for free. On the rare occasions they do, they expect and receive…

Is meta-programming possible in zig? What can be done with comptime and how does it compare to Lisp and Nim?

I have recently started using the Nim programming language. It has a killer feature: meta-programming. Here I describe how I implemented a html templating system using Nim meta-pro…

Thank you, that was very informative. > Any open source language could do the same without massive investment (many have). What I meant by this was wrapping other open source libra…

(The one and only WalterBright! What an honour.) Terribly sorry about that. I've moved you into the list. It's been a long time now but I really did like D and its meta-programming…

Is that the same Anders Hejlsberg who developed Turbo Pascal and Delphi for Borland, another company which microsoft successfully crushed in the 80's and 90's? (Hint: It is). We co…

Richard Stallman once said he'd rather use software that was slightly less good over non-free software. If you think this is insane or don't understand the viewpoint, I refer you t…

I find myself only replying to people who disagree with me. That is sad. I've added Vale to my blog post. It looks very interesting. Congratulations on taking a stand for what you …

I constantly hear that "we can't do it without corporations" and yet there are so many counter examples. Most of the corporations were built on free languages and ecosystems which …