Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by SteveHawk27 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 12:13 PM UTC

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
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Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by mrled » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 12:49 PM UTC

They've got a new web viewer in this issue that can be used to link to individual articles and might be nicer than reading a PDF on some screens: https://pagedout.institute/webview.php?issue=8&page=1

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by jhbadger » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

I love Paged Out -- it's basically the only modern equivalent to 1980s BYTE or Dr. Dobbs Journal today.

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by lioeters » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 1:09 PM UTC

Yes! Just started reading the table of contents, and already I'm feeling that joy of old-school creative computing. Revival of the culture of personal computers and programming as a technology of liberation. A better future is possible and the power is in our hands.

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by amelius » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

> Query based compilers are all the rage: Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Haskell, and Clang all structure their compilers as queries.

I've never heard of this. It's a pity the article doesn't go into details.

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by femiagbabiaka » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #5

> Query based compilers are all the rage: Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Haskell, and Clang all structure their compilers as queries. I've never heard of this. It's a pity the article doesn't go into details.

Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644391

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by Graziano_M » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC

I feel like this tweet suggests that the PDF is a polyglot or an embedded second PDF.

https://x.com/gynvael/status/2024180784064598134

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by hnthrowaway0315 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

Thank you. I love the wallpapers of Paged Out and always set it as my default wallpaper on MacOS.

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by thunderseethe » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #5

> Query based compilers are all the rage: Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Haskell, and Clang all structure their compilers as queries. I've never heard of this. It's a pity the article doesn't go into details.

It is a double edged sword of the single page layout that you really have to make one point briefly and get out of there. I had to pare down many details to fit the layout.

If you want to learn more about query based compilers as a concept, I highly recommend ollef's aritcle: https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.htm...

If you want to learn how to implement a query based compiler, I have a tutorial on that here: https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/lsp-base/ (which I also highly recommend but that might be more obvious since I wrote it)

Re: Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #5

> Query based compilers are all the rage: Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Haskell, and Clang all structure their compilers as queries. I've never heard of this. It's a pity the article doesn't go into details.

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