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TIL pandoc for the people, courtesy of pandoc compiled to WASM. cool https://pandoc.org/app/

Appreciate the quote of the Essentialism book by Greg McKweon, which I am currently reading. Funnily enough I decided the book when I found out (on Imprint app) that one of the key…

Congrats! I had a great time doing a batch remotely from Italy (2.5 years ago), there is a lot of investment in making sure the remote experience is great and it shows!

AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format). Th…

personal highlight I looked forward to: - Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool) - Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect stro…

Two tracks this year (a first). As usual, videos are prerecorded and released as YouTube Premiere. Track 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHI4D93Ts8_k&si=06qsQgYUd... Track 2:…

Related project discussed here 2 years ago FrameOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855337

> You can easily make the case that Tadej Pogačar is one of the world’s best athletes. Plus he enjoys a wholesome reputation, a cherubic look at races and a cheerful presence on so…

If you happen to pass by Ivrea (short trip from Turin or Milan) there is a very nice small museum which showcases most of the machines mentioned. It has also a working Programma 10…

Great work! As a side track, it led me to dive into the history of the manufacturing company of Breda trains. Originally founded in Milan late 1800s by Ernesto Breda for locomotive…

I wish we had that for Nim too!

Yet another appreciation story for Miguel’s mega tutorial. In 2017 I used it to create our wedding site and learn a bit of web dev (my background is in data science). To motivate m…

And this fact effectively builds trust in the vision and in execution.

For the curious on how it works (not mentioned in the readme), it uses pymupdf and a precise mapping of all information in area coordinates, as such the document layout is hard cod…

This is the way

I am a bit biased on the content ;), but note that this is a talk that is not focused on teaching the language but more on what does it mean to learn a second language, especially …

Thomas Snyder, the creator of this blog (who gathered a number of contributors throughout the years; recently slowed down the content) is a puzzle grandmaster and recently mind beh…

Gold

Kate is not a technologist but writes beautifully. I find this a very interesting piece. I particularly like this quote towards the end: > At its core, the computer and the Interne…