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ulisp is an incredible achievement and has brought me a lot of joy. There is something very fun about writing lisp for an Arduino nano, and trying to golf your intentions into ~300…

I'd be interested in hearing an expanded take on GPLs presence in this list. The first and third elements are intuitive and confirm my own biases/believes, but the freedom/GPL entr…

Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console portin…

I attempted to write a program once to solve for how annoying it can be to notate modular patches. It's essentially a small DSL that can produce graphviz charts of patches. There h…

At some point I heard the phrase: "Always be the dumbest guy in the room." I've tried to live by this to various extents, and it's kind of a counter-intuitive phrase, but the more …

I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the Beeper offices over the past few weeks. I've had a hard time guessing their intent. To some extent all of this Beeper Mini stuff …

I am a complete layman in the world of complex computer graphics programming and research, but I have an interest in it as someone who enjoys playing computer games. I really enjoy…

Would you care to elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area so I'm probably missing something, but my thought has always been the 'portability' of storing everything in the backend…

I'm from South Africa, so I've always been captivated by the South African season/win at the 1995 Rugby World cup and the political context of it. Dramatized in the movie Invictus.…

Witch looks awesome, and I think has a killer feature I've been looking for for a while on linux (slightly off topic). I use rofi on linux to surface a dialog that allows me to exe…

I've always felt that $BIG_BRAND_DISTRO+KDE got pretty close. It's still Linux, so not quite the same, but as far as look and feel, it's pretty close I think.

Disclaimer: I am friends with the founder of log-store. I have been beta testing it for a while for small scale (~50 million non-nested json objects) log aggregation it's working b…

Disclaimer: I am friends with the author of log-store and have been occasionally helping test the software. I've been using log-store at work for some time. It has an awesome 'admi…

I wouldn't call myself a security person, but I do have a fair amount of experience implementing things downstream of the security organization, and sometimes outside of that conte…

Right there with you Urist. Nothing else out there hijacks my brain quite like DF...

I don't think I implied making a package wasn't simple...from my comment: > With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upst…

> the solution isn't "well, why don't they just use existing package management systems" Fair enough, I think I was more trying to unwrap the idea of "shell script standardization"…

> I think what's missing is some standardization around what an installer is allowed to do I don't mean to be facetious, genuinely curios, but to the authors point, isn't that the …

Disclaimer: I know the developer of Ntfy and have worked with them in the past. I love this tool because it sits in a very convenient place in the alerting and monitoring stack. At…

I feel like you just described Perl, and I use Perl almost every day for this kind of thing, but people seem to hate it these days. The syntax can be weird, but I still think it re…

What got you excited about this field in the first place? Try and get back in touch with that maybe. Try exploring another side of the field, like systems programming, or a languag…

This is excellent advice. I just wanted to add, don't underestimate the haircut. I've used this strategy several times to make clear dividing lines in between various periods of my…

I use regex101.com a lot for writing complex regex. It provides a very quick feedback loop for thinking about how I want to struct regex and be performant/safe in my implementation…

I'm interested in whether the technologists employed by this company will be able to pull it off. I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that in order to support a larg…