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news_to_me
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About news_to_me
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…