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Post by glangdale »

A superoptimizer that allows you to just put in the inputs and outputs of a function that want and that finds the shortest sequence of instructions that works the same way as the function.

Currently works only on branch-free AVX2 sequences where each SIMD lane is doing the same thing, and can calculate arbitrary graphs of 4 instructions for 8/16/32/64-bit SIMD.

I plan to add both more aggressive models of what can be represented (e.g. normal x86 or ARM programming as well as general SIMD), as well as working on synthesizing iterative and recursive sequences. It's already semi-useful in a niche.

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Post by theblindbat »

I'm working on a mobile version of a card game my friend's dad made! In between shifts at the hospital, it's been a great way to take my mind off of everything going on in the world.

https://www.entspire.com

It's funny, for someone with a formal computer science education I've never tried making a mobile app before! We don't really expect to make a lot of money off of the app, but we've had a blast going through the whole process.

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Post by speg »

Random_Person wrote: post #557

This summer, I worked pretty hard on a vanilla PHP game engine for generating semi-random, text-based adventures. I haven't touched it in 6 months or so. I really should get back to it. I was having fun on that project.

Just yesterday I was daydreaming of quitting my job and throwing all the frameworks and build systems out the window in favour of starting something new with vanilla PHP.

Just edit your code and refresh the page. Aaah, the simplicity!

I’ve heard PHP8 was just released? I’m going to go read up on that.

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Post by carapace »

h3rald wrote: post #63

These days I keep tinkering with min ( https://min-lang.org ). It is a small but fairly batteries-included concatenative programming language I've been working on for years. Not many people use it of course, and it's not going to ever become mainstream, but I am using it everyday to perform small tasks and also more recently even to build small APIs for other personal projects. Plus I find that working on your own pr…

Oh that's cool! I've been playing with Joy. Concatinative languages seem to have a lot of potential.

How do you handle compiling combinators?

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Post by app17 »

westoncb wrote: post #311

A Rust/Electron/three.js cross-platform disk-space usage analyzer. It's meant to be easy to learn, efficient to use, and nice to look at. I have a beta up and would love any feedback: https://diskatlas.com/ It's my first small software business idea that I'm seriously pursuing. My goal with it is to earn enough passive income that I can return to work on more ambitious exploratory projects, e.g.: http://symbolflux.co…

Have you looked at https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri as a more lightweight and Rust friendly alternative to Electron ?

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Post by kumarsw »

DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating version control system for large binary files. It's designed to keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the working directory so it plays nice with cloud synchronization software.

I started it after constant headaches involving Git LFS and the corporate proxy. It's based around the Restic chunker library, with inspiration from both the Duplicacy backup software and Boar, another binary version control system for large binary files.

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Post by motohagiography »

SN76477 wrote: post #170

Trying to sound like Autechre using VCV rack. https://vcvrack.com/

The modules for this are insane, e.g. https://library.vcvrack.com/Stalys/VCDualNeuron

Just learning synths now, and the idea of having a complete analog computer is just super cool.

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