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About news_to_me

I'm Zack, a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects ranging from geography-based census data analytics to processing state COVID test results. I've designed web APIs, integrated with many third-party APIs, and restructured application architectures.

In 2023, as a side project, I created a small functional language called Cassette .

https://zjm.me | z@zjm.me

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    Comment #44869100

    Here's Seattle's version of that: https://www.dinostomatopie.com

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    Comment #43865170

    SEEKING WORK / Seattle / Remote I'm a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects ranging from geography-based census dat…

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    Comment #43677981

    Yeah it’s good general advice to always discharge the CRT. Although… the flyback transformer on most of these Macs has a bleeder resistor, so I skip it when I’m lazy now.

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    Comment #43677969

    Ooh this looks great

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    Comment #43677968

    Yeah, I’ve done it once already, hopefully this time I can do it a little cleaner. Nice, any goodies you remember from that hoard?

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    Comment #43677356

    Funny timing, I also bought a Mac today - an SE/30. Looking forward to fixing it up.

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    Comment #41927077

    I'm loving this series, it's one of the best I've found for explaining HM typing in an approachable way. Looking forward to more!

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    Comment #41851493

    Oh this looks perfect! I kind of intended to make something like this, but now I don't have to. Looking forward to replacing my macproxy with this to try it out :)

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    Comment #41237448

    This is so true. I feel like I've learned more about programming in the last two years making Cassette[1] than in the past decade of professional software development. Every develo…

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    Comment #41102876

    There's also a lot less visible sky in a lot of places in a city—it only takes four or five stories to limit your view and block the moon a lot of the time. And in my experience, i…

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    Comment #41057666

    For some background on the quest to discover new elements, I highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8 . The main story about Ninov's fraud is pretty…

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    Comment #41046406

    > "a + ogonek accent" and another (properly) sent "a with ogonek" (these print the same but are semantically different!) How can these possibly be semantically different? Isn’t the…

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    Comment #40951672

    This looks cool! How did you decide on what data types to include?

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    Comment #40228411

    SEEKING WORK | Seattle, Remote I'm a full stack developer with 11 years of experience. I'm really good at Javascript and Elixir, and I have experience with Django, Wordpress, and R…

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    Comment #39896615

    SEEKING WORK | Seattle, WA | Remote I'm Zack, a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on projects ranging from geography-based census data analyti…

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    Comment #39661856

    Per-pixel is pretty slow, most fast algorithms don’t do this. Also, this is on the Playdate, which uses a somewhat lean ARM chip (stm32f7).

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    Comment #39631299

    I’ve been working through the WebAssembly spec recently and it’s pretty interesting, there are many design aspects I wouldn’t have chosen. Was there anything about the spec that wa…

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    Comment #39564820

    SEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote I'm Zack, a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I mostly work in Elixir, and I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects rang…

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    Comment #38922094

    Ok, I think I've got it working on Debian now. I've updated the "Getting Started" section with the dependencies: https://cassette-lang.com/#getting-started

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    Comment #38857320

    > (the font is great) I also want to shout-out Berkeley Graphics, who made the monospace font. It's been my favorite for some time now. https://berkeleygraphics.com

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    Comment #38856547

    Thanks! It's hard to escape making a syntax that's just a blend of other language's syntax elements, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Cassette's syntax is in some ways my favo…

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    Comment #38855589

    Oooh I may have to do this!

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    Comment #38851863

    That was a pretty late change to the syntax actually — I really, really wanted Javascript-style lambdas but with a skinny arrow, like `(x, y) -> x + y`. But it made parsing and com…

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    Comment #38851637

    Thanks! While working on this, whenever I would browse another language project's site I got into the habit of asking myself what I wanted to see, in what order. For better or wors…