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This is largely FUD, written with the intent of sounding professional and with expertise, but in practice there are many tell-tale signs that the author doesn't really know what th…

You're talking about a different thing to OP. OP is talking about the OSI and the specific incarnation of 'open-source' that came with it, you are talking about the more general so…

Thanks, I'm glad to hear it :) Unfortunately I've not had much time to work on it recently for personal reasons, but the project is still very much active and receives regular upda…

It is worth noting that although the result here is visually impressive for erosion aesthetics, it is also not practical for the generation of physically-plausible lakes and rivers…

No, nano is not my daily driver. It's what I use when I want to quickly edit a file with root access because, funnily enough, I'm not in the habit of running my primary editor with…

Thanks for your kind words, they mean a lot. Frankly, I spend a lot of time feeling similarly uncomfortable about my relationship with computers and the industry at large. I think,…

That's fair enough!

Nice work! And yes, that gradual acceleration of productivity where your fixes and tweaks from the past compound on your ability to get things done in the future is a great feeling…

A thing that shocked me as I was working on the text editor was how capable modern terminal emulators are when you account for ANSI extensions. First-class clipboard access, mouse …

That's odd, I've not heard that reported by anybody else. If I get time I'll look into it.

Yes, absolutely. I've since switched to rope-backed buffers, but I don't think the rope itself is actually adding much from a performance standpoint, even for really very large fil…

Unmentioned in the post, but I have since switched to a third-party rope library (crop, not ropey). At some point I'd like to implement one myself, but for now this does the job.

That is certainly true! If your target is end users, use the off the shelf solution that has been inspected by many eyeballs . The best part of building tools for yourself or a sma…

Author here. Off the top of my head: - Software is simpler than you think when you boil it down. There's a massive incentive to over-sell the complexity of the problem a solution i…

Yeah, it's a pretty blatant cult masquerading as a consensus - but they're all singing from the same hymn sheet in lieu of any actual evidence to support their claims. A lot of it …

(they are all wrong) A fun property of S-curves is that they look exactly like exponential curves until the midpoint. Projecting exponentials is definitionally absurd because expon…

I'm slowly preparing it to be released, I just have a lot of IRL stuff going on!

They did. It's called 'DNS' and you can set up a 'page' about yourself if you want.

Right, and if the original statement is true - that price drops are killing supply (without providing houses at a sufficient level) - then that implies that housing does not work l…

Are you ok

The point is not the final product, the point is the process.

I love this, this is exactly the sort of thing I've experienced too: building the toy project gave me an on-ramp to something similar but much more complicated in the future.

Apologies, I overhauled the entire website (backend and all). I wrote a post about it, if you're curious.

That sounds as good a reason as any to become a pirate, frankly

This is the point, yes! Toy software is not production-worthy. It might not even be sufficient for your own personal use. It's about building proof of concepts and rapidly scouting…