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Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world …

Thank you very much for coming out and saying all of this. I'm reminded of Wendell Berry's essay "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer"[1]: > I do not see that computers are bringi…

Based on the Zombocom reference and general lack of details, this must be a joke, but I don't get the joke. Is it meant to be a parody of something else? And why not postal mail, f…

Location: Central United States Remote: Yes -- remote only. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Unix/Linux tooling, POSIX, general back-end stuff (not web), desktop applications,…

> They do not participate in controversial discussions about Visual Basic or Pascal — they just do their work in those languages without even knowing that there’s so much controver…

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My first open-source contribution was a two-line patch for a bug I found in Eclipse while at work. Eclipse is known as a Java IDE, but it also provides a widget toolkit and other l…

I'm really grateful for Michael Forney's work on this project since I found it a good resource for getting a variety of popular packages to build statically. I ended up starting my…

Speaking from my experience so far as an "adult learner": yes, it's brutal. At least, tournament chess is. Online play is easy for me not to take so seriously. But when I get up on…

I got the DIY edition of this a few months ago and have been using it continuously since then. Nice piece of hardware and I'm glad I bought it. Only big thing missing for me is use…

Hey thanks for your perspective and a couple of mentions of software I'd not heard of (like tcpclient). I agree that curl is pretty big and bloated. I would not call it a deficienc…

Oh I'm sure the actual work to compile those packages is not much. It's more to do with keeping the number of packages on my system to a minimum. Actually I would not be surprised …

I look forward to seeing your 1st release of this program! > Anyways, if there's a moral to this story it's that writing a browser engine is surprisingly fun, so go for it :) Good …

I'll 2nd the code quality. I dug into the Mines code a while back as I wanted to use its puzzle generation algorithm to throw together a text-based version of the game. This turned…

Funny seeing this here as I've been thinking a lot about text-based browsers lately. Just a couple days ago I tried to build this one from source, but I put it aside due to the dep…

Reminds me of the well-known quote I always enjoyed, though I never looked much into the context: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki…

Tangent: It frustrates me that it's apparently impossible to implement cat(1) in a truly portable way. The problem is supporting unbuffered I/O (`cat -u`). Standard C simply can't …

> Have there been? And why? A few reasons why people might want to do this: - Optimizing for small approachable codebase instead of featurefulness or performance (sbase)[1] - Dissa…

One thing I've noticed about lists like these is that the tools are mostly flashy and feature-packed, almost invariably with colorized output, sometimes with funky Unicode symbols …

Good thoughts, thanks. This mirrors my own experience. The whole thing did seem very approachable to me. Pretty sure we had to implement a FORTH in a programming languages course I…

Don't remember how I stumbled on this site, but it had to have been 15-20 years ago that I did. Was pleasantly surprised to see that it's still online and that the author is still …

I fell in love with FORTH recently and wrote a bare-metal "OS" (barely!) for the IBM PC based on it. Funny how people are mostly implementing Forths rather than writing programs in…

One thing I did not notice in the article is that the frequency of spam and scammers might make people more cynical and mistrustful of others in general. Just speculating based on …