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One engine, many tools – Introducing Rubydex

railsatscale.com
1 points·by frou_dh·il y a 7 jours·0 comments

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

rahuljuliato.com
471 points·by frou_dh·il y a 23 jours·285 comments

Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years

bbc.co.uk
7 points·by frou_dh·le mois dernier·6 comments

Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)

adamj.eu
202 points·by frou_dh·il y a 5 mois·94 comments

Deno Deploy Is Generally Available

deno.com
3 points·by frou_dh·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

AdGuard rolls out in Japanese schools to tackle distractions and improve safety

adguard.com
4 points·by frou_dh·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

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frou_dh
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
IMHO the persistence of Model M (now Unicomp) worship is a meme. Yes a chunky Buckling Spring mechanism is a very unique and "fun" feel, but that doesn't mean it's actually good to do a lot of typing on in terms of ergonomics or speed. So what of it? It's a novelty item, not the ultimate keyboard.
frou_dh
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
Grasping at straws, it's kinda convenient that ( and ) match literally if the text being searched is Elisp code!
frou_dh
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
I remember these guys from the glory days of the CrankyGeeks video podcast. John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley had a great double-act hosting that show.
frou_dh
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing:

- https://swiftpackageregistry.com

- https://swiftpackageindex.com
frou_dh
·il y a 19 jours·discuss
Even the later JavaFX was a tasteless exercise. I opened some apps and you could tell within 1 second that something was wrong because all the text was using fugly non-platform-native (or somehow screwed up) text rendering.
frou_dh
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
> Any body who saw a Perl programmer do over a weekend, what they would take a year to do in their language(especially Java and Python)- had a deep rooted seething envy at Perl and Perl programmers. So they went around almost on religious crusade to have Perl gone. This was done entirely to crush competition. They just didn't want other people to wield a power they didn't have. Lisp has had a similar arc of development over the decades.

Isn't that the fate of the archetypical loser? To end up on the sidelines thinking "I'm actually the smartest and most powerful, the wider world just isn't capable of appreciating it".

I saw someone recently say something like... they wished contemporary Lisp people put anywhere near as much effort into creating lots of great software with Lisp as they do extolling Lisp.
frou_dh
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
The tapestry of share buttons were certainly novel and interesting like 20 years ago. They may be lame and 99+% ignored now but it's been a slide to this state of affairs.
frou_dh
·le mois dernier·discuss
Real text lovers have an appreciation of typography and don't ignore the whole field and stay in the dirt with crude "monospace everything" approach.
frou_dh
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
IIRC it seemed like that pilot was having some kind of nervous breakdown because he surreptitiously held back on the stick all the way from 38,000ft until the crash.
frou_dh
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
There's something disgusting about the use of characters for graphs/charts on a bitmapped monitor. Trust nerds to find a way to make stuff ugly!
frou_dh
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
He's so charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-ZmuJixIg
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
AFAIK that setting is opt-in, at least in Bash.
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
We have to settle for the smiley face changing slightly.
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
It's got to be somewhat depressing working on a household name product in its trashy downturn. Surely you can't have the pride in your work that an equivalent employee once would have.
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I wonder about the timing in relation to the OpenAI acquisition of Astral this week. Was it a two-horse race to be acquired and then Deno got word that they were not the chosen one, and so said oh well, mass layoff it is?

BTW the Deno architects would contend that "mastering Deno" could never be a waste of time, because what you're mastering is to a large extent standards-based JS (in comparison to the APIs that came before).
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Yeah, that's pretty much tailor-made to be the official resource for an experienced programmer to get an overview of C++ as it stands. Fairly slim book so it's approachable.

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
It's abject hackery because such "comment" directives don't even necessarily have to be a comment to be active:

    const x = `This whole thing is
    a
    //go:generate worse-is-better
    multiline
    string literal`
A lot of people in this discussion are beating up Go for using syntactical comments for directives, but in reality the implementation is even less principled than that!
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
You really gotta wonder how much value the "Digg" brand actually has, because the number of people that remember/care about the site from its original glory days is ever dwindling.
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
See also all the programmer blogs that feel the need to use a monospaced font for prose, to signal that they're a programmer.
frou_dh
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Safari's devtools has a visual <canvas> debugger. I remember using it, seeing all the CanvasRenderingContext2D calls that affected the canvas listed, and scrubbing left and right through time to see how a frame was built up.