Clojure, Rebol & Red rulz
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16 Oct 2025
so true, unfortunately. im also pondering this often, from the aesthetic "comfort" of my #Clojure REPL, while working on web apps :/
i even coded up a very old-school menu system, with numbered & colored menu items, which i can choose from NOT by cursor keys, but typing a number
The most crossplatform UI framework isn't a Web Browser. It's VT100 terminal. The programs using ANSI Escape Codes will very likely be usable in 10-20 years unchanged. And this isn't a good thing, btw. API politics got so bad we can't agree on how to put a triangle on the screen.
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6 Oct 2025
There’s a Japanese Camellia called pink perfection and I tripped over my own feet when I saw it
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5 Oct 2025
It's an AI song, but I almost "cried" at the end :)
It's more cryptic indeed, than the original by @beginbot , but it's also much more musical and evoked deep feelings.
x.com/dhh/status/19741775671…
3 Oct 2025
Here's my Indie Folk take with reworked lyrics. suno.com/s/fbTdps6nToe2UslG
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3 Oct 2025
Here's my Indie Folk take with reworked lyrics. suno.com/s/fbTdps6nToe2UslG
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25 Sep 2025
No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡
Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old.
He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.
He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.
That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.
Pretty impressive resume, right?
And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.
Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏
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It's so sad that the term "cargo cult" is so overused in Tech discourse. Cargo cult is people literally building things that only *look* like Technology completely disregarding the actual inner workings of it. This is how all the Vibe Coded SaaS-es look like.
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27 Aug 2025
oh, shit... this scene is indeed not so fiction anymore!
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8 Dec 2019
The modern ZX Spectrum: ClojureScript instead of BASIC! :)
7 Dec 2019
Put ClojureScript’s cljs.core into the “ROM” of your ESP32 and then REPL into via your LAN.
Binaries and instructions are here gist.github.com/mfikes/5ed90…
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16 Aug 2025
I's love to see a future like that!
The effort wasted on pouring fluff around simple text info with dubious benefits, often impeding comprehension too...
It's also simpler & less buggy to code streaming-style TTY UI or monospaced-TUI, than full gfx. it's sufficient 4 most apps.
15 Aug 2025
Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s.
Modern apps and web pages would immediately back up every buffer and make for a painful experience, but it is fun to consider optimizing inside that tight box (in the 90s, 4x ISDN was high end!).
With Starlink’s good latency, input-distribution multiplayer games would still work fine, as long as they didn’t download anything. You could even have voice chat.
With an optimal implementation, you could scroll the X feed as fast as you want with full text, with progressive images coming in when you pause, but instantly ceasing bandwidth use as you start scrolling again.
Remote shells would work well by default, but we could do a lot better than standard ANSI for complex updates.
Server-rendered web pages or apps could at least be progressively rendered and text-first, with full responsiveness even when the fidelity is low.
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Tamas Herman retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s.
Modern apps and web pages would immediately back up every buffer and make for a painful experience, but it is fun to consider optimizing inside that tight box (in the 90s, 4x ISDN was high end!).
With Starlink’s good latency, input-distribution multiplayer games would still work fine, as long as they didn’t download anything. You could even have voice chat.
With an optimal implementation, you could scroll the X feed as fast as you want with full text, with progressive images coming in when you pause, but instantly ceasing bandwidth use as you start scrolling again.
Remote shells would work well by default, but we could do a lot better than standard ANSI for complex updates.
Server-rendered web pages or apps could at least be progressively rendered and text-first, with full responsiveness even when the fidelity is low.
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27 Jul 2025
Amiga was the original AI gf.
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12 Jul 2025
Bassist Helena Cruz performing the most complex loop programming you'll see!
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21 Jun 2025
So many review videos are made about benchmarking audio/video editing, but for developers, running real-world test suits is a much more representative benchmark and could be conveyed in simple text or a small screenshot, like this!
M4 Mac Mini is a great Mac, but it's not a particularly good deal as a dev machine. A @Beelinkofficial SER8 is the same money, but comes with 32GB RAM 1TB, and is almost twice as fast for multi-core workloads like our HEY test suite!
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If these 3 Japanese companies you've never heard of went down, all modern digital infrastructure (and every AI breakthrough) would grind to a halt.
Here's the story of JSR, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK) and Shin-Etsu, the most important companies you've never heard of...
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Jesus christ guys I am not making hyprland proprietary this is to gauge possible donations and income wtf is wrong with yall
Also a lot of people's attitude of "I wont pay cuz no!" is literally why foss cant compete in many areas with paid proprietary stuff.
For something you use daily, and is made with respect to the user, paying for it (or donating) should be something that's normalized.
"don't sell my data thats bad!" but then "I wont pay you cuz I want shit for FREE" well you see buddy thats not how the world works and developers also need a place to live and something to put on their damn plate
A purely informative survey
If Hyprland asked you to pay for it, how much would you be willing to pay?
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20 Apr 2025
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I was let known about this several times already. My build tool for C nob.h is mentioned on the official website of the C standard. I'm extremely humbled and surprised at the same time. Usually I do not expect any serious recognition from anybody. Mostly because I'm actually very unserious person (you probably already know that).
I just want to say thank you for this little nod of acknowledgement to the work I do. The idea of nob.h was also heavily inspired by the ideology @Jonathan_Blow is following in his currently in development programming language. Huge thanks goes to him for making me realize that to build a project in a language X you should probably only use the language X. Especially if that language is used for things like Operating System, Load Balancers, High-frequency Trading, Web Browsers, etc. If it can do all of that, it MUST be able to run few external commands ffs. :)
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