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And now all search engines suck because they want you to use AI rather than finding direct sources.

I also first used Linux via knoppix around 2004. Great introduction. Though my big sister said it was difficult to install it to the hard drive because it's meant to be a live cd, …

Knoppix used to have a really good desktop environment with effects and games. I think it had KDE with compiz-fusion. That was awesome. Now it's just bland lxde.

Probably. But at least it's useful and runs locally. Better than all the predatory apps that you have to download 100mbs to do something this website can do instantly without downl…

Yeah, now anyone can write really long impressive code with a sophisticated backdoor by using AI. Can't trust anything anymore. (Not that I ever did trust npm)

I'm amazed by how in-depth the documentation is. Usually projects struggle to get decent docs. (Unless the docs are LLM generated). I'm not sure what's better, the design or the do…

So you used rust to write a better rust? I'm just kidding. Looks like a real interesting language with some good features without being verbose or ugly. The backstory is interestin…

Very interesting and polished. I see that it's got a regex engine written in Pilang as well. I'm curious if there's any benchmarks or comparisons. I'd like to see how big the runti…

With a 17kb jbig2 decoder all you need is a few one-bit images (a page of a book scan) for it to save bandwidth. With a 60kb codec2 decoder you need about 2 minutes of audio to sta…

I think you mean Ed, the standard editor.

http://Bellard.org is peak web design. Change my mind.

You can also get really small file sizes by ignoring frameworks and porting unsupported codecs to wasm. I ported jbig2 (17kb uncompressed) and codec2 (60kb uncompressed) to wasm wh…

I was so disappointed that Ghostty doesn't properly render Khmer text. Abugidas are important and you have to be able to render the symbols non-linearly. Cosmic term is the only te…

Oop is just Unix philosophy misapplied. Unix philosophy is that each program does one thing and you chain them together. In OOP you have each class do one thing, but at that scale …

The whole period of Obama's presidency was also skipped. The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, it's quite odd that it wasn't included in Trump's Muslim ban. Obama's…

39kb includes the zstd decoder which is statically compiled into it. I'm not targeting microcontrollers, but I am targeting smartphones in areas with bad internet connections, so e…

If it uses indexedb under the hood, indexedb is ridiculously slow on first write but subsequent loads are very fast, if you're loading data you would have to load it via some other…

I was using the original zstd rust crate for my web app, but I couldn't get my module any smaller than 150kb, but when I switched to C for web app I was able to do a whole lot of o…

I too love meta. My feed is only my friends and people I follow. It's definitely not 90% sponsored posts.

With the sans serif font I assumed it was someone complaining that Weird Al Yankovic was normal now or changing his name.

This isn't just a decompilation, this is a full port. Even supports Android.

iOS doesn't allow for native code execution (or JIT compilers) in apps like Android does (they don't like anything that could be used for sideloading) so the termux equivalents are…

If you get an Android you can use termux and do literally anything. I like to write websites, write newsletters in vim and run a jekyll instance, transcode video with ffmpeg, etc.

I use dwm and brave and 10 tabs or so and I'm usually at about 2-3gb of RAM used.

Inspired by BusyBox 9 years ago I wrote a multicall binary that you rename and manipulate to solve puzzles and learn to use the shell in the process. I should do more with it. http…