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I wish I could think of a good long form article about this. The best I can immediately think of is a pretty informative FAQ about Japanese encoding. https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/en…

The narrative that Han unification is this thing imposed by ignorant westerners on East Asian computer users is simply not true. The criteria for which characters were unified was …

It doesn’t matter. If C is supposed to be a language for solving real-world problems, its strings have to be real-world strings. Wishing writing were more elegant gets you nowhere.…

The inability to represent text in the vast majority of the world’s languages is a far bigger issue than the lack of emoji.

There is a lot more to Rust than just “safety”. That gets talked about a lot, but Rust is full of great features that make it worthwhile to use even when you are working in unsafe …

That is what happens when you have a page which is genuinely tiny even for the early days of the web, served over a modern internet connection, and it is cached so it does not have…

I actually added a link to the page to bypass CloudFlare entirely. I wanted the page to remain accessible so people could see what was on it regardless, but CloudFlare helps with t…

Oh wow, I know you from the README! It really is something seeing you here. It is not a very impressive site at the moment but the immense amount of traffic that I have been gettin…

Yeah, I find the slow loading really fun. Unfortunately, when I install the Ethernet card I imagine it will get a fair bit faster. But on the bright side, I think it will reduce th…

Do they not anymore? That’s horrible. Deliberate reduction of the internet into a platform for consumption instead of bidirectional communication.

I’m dumb enough to do it anyway. ;)

If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.org instead.

Yeah, sorry about that. I am planning on finding a way to keep things interesting and authentic with the hosting, but also accessible to everyone. In the meantime, if you want to v…

I don’t know too much about how CloudFlare works, but it looks like you got a direct connection! Congratulations! My guess is that your DNS does not have the CloudFlare entries yet…

There are 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet) cards for the ISA bus, which in practice can apparently be around 50% faster than 10 Mbps Ethernet over such a bus. However, they seemed pretty e…

Yeah, I imagine it would. I can invalidate the cache myself, but it would not make sense for a user to do so.

I think the 38400 baud connection is a bigger issue than the CPU load. When I get Ethernet working I think there is a decent chance that I won’t need CloudFlare—especially if I can…

This fork is handy for that. It’s fun to play with, but you need to do a decent amount yourself to get it set up. https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos

If you come back tomorrow, I can probably turn CloudFlare off. Although I understand not being enthusiastic enough about my novelty website to bother.

Just fun, really. There is not much serious about it.

Yeah, maybe posting it on Hacker News was a bad idea. I should have tried somewhere with fewer visitors first.

If you had visited a few hours earlier it would have been direct. Then the hug of death hit. If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.…

Please see the comments on this thread. It was directly internet facing when I posted it initially. Hacker News managed to bring it down. I had to add a cached reverse proxy. If yo…

When I first posted it a few hours ago, I didn’t have CloudFlare. You can see lots of people unable to load the page at all in the earliest comments. Unfortunately it got to a poin…

It’s fun. Lots of people like doing retro game dev and the like, but often you are stuck with ancient C toolchains that suck even if you like C itself. Getting Rust working is a gr…