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It sounds like you learned a lot... but a blog platform to do that? Like why not just pivot to something that might need the enhancements you're providing with

It sounds like you learned a lot... but a blog platform to do that? Like why not just pivot to something that might need the enhancements you're providing with go? I'm asking this for rhetorical purposes. I know, I know deeply why. heh. I'm glad you came out of it ok. Thank you for your honest response.

xani_ 4y ago
Well it started after wordpress fucked up my formatting and replaced -- with — (em dash) one too many times. The whole PHP stack isn't exactly pleasant to manage in the best of days, and looming threat of WP having another bug and getting owned of no fault of my own was also a factor. I wanted something simple that was just markdown for actual content, no database or anything more fancy. I have considered static gen and even eventually migrated my old blog to it as archive (not in english, and cringe anyway). But it really started as "well, it looks like fun thing to do and I will be scratching the itch I had, why not". Mind you, that was in 2012, the first version was in asynchronous(!) Perl, Ghost didn't even exist at that point (and I didn't wanted to touch JS anyway), let alone any other alternative. It even did respectable ~3ms per render of the page. I rewrote it in Go to learn some stuff and in the process also yeeted comment processing and just farmed it out to externals (self hosted, not written by me) app, as that's probably the most annoying and thankless part of blog engine when you include all kinds of spam detection that would need to be written. On the nearby cementery I also have unfinished Go z80 emu (I did learn a bit about using Dear ImGui from it) and it rewrite in Rust (because what's better first project than that?), just coz I wanted to see just how much faster C<->Rust is compared to C<->Go interop(answer = a lot, rendering part got from >4ms to below 0.5ms). I did it to the point where it could run some code, and quite fast too, I think it was down to few ns per instruction, and 8 byte prog ran in like 11 ns, which I kinda didn't expect from Go. It didn't emulate instruction delay tho, which would be required to emulate it with peripherals. Program decoder was just...256 byte array with function pointers generated out of operator list, which probably helped
- stuntkite 4y ago
  You are a Don Quixote after my own heart. If you ever need a job, get at me. I think we'd work well together. Heh. Not even joking.
  - xani_ 4y ago
    It's just the way I prefer to learn stuff. Learning for learning sake without making anything out of it isn't for me, I learn best when getting knowledge in process of making something.
    - stuntkite 4y ago
      I realize it sounds like I was teasing you. I was not. I really relate and am impressed. Cheers.

xani_ 4y ago

Well it started after wordpress fucked up my formatting and replaced -- with — (em dash) one too many times. The whole PHP stack isn't exactly pleasant to manage in the best of days, and looming threat of WP having another bug and getting owned of no fault of my own was also a factor. I wanted something simple that was just markdown for actual content, no database or anything more fancy. I have considered static gen and even eventually migrated my old blog to it as archive (not in english, and cringe anyway). But it really started as "well, it looks like fun thing to do and I will be scratching the itch I had, why not". Mind you, that was in 2012, the first version was in asynchronous(!) Perl, Ghost didn't even exist at that point (and I didn't wanted to touch JS anyway), let alone any other alternative. It even did respectable ~3ms per render of the page. I rewrote it in Go to learn some stuff and in the process also yeeted comment processing and just farmed it out to externals (self hosted, not written by me) app, as that's probably the most annoying and thankless part of blog engine when you include all kinds of spam detection that would need to be written. On the nearby cementery I also have unfinished Go z80 emu (I did learn a bit about using Dear ImGui from it) and it rewrite in Rust (because what's better first project than that?), just coz I wanted to see just how much faster C<->Rust is compared to C<->Go interop(answer = a lot, rendering part got from >4ms to below 0.5ms). I did it to the point where it could run some code, and quite fast too, I think it was down to few ns per instruction, and 8 byte prog ran in like 11 ns, which I kinda didn't expect from Go. It didn't emulate instruction delay tho, which would be required to emulate it with peripherals. Program decoder was just...256 byte array with function pointers generated out of operator list, which probably helped

stuntkite 4y ago
You are a Don Quixote after my own heart. If you ever need a job, get at me. I think we'd work well together. Heh. Not even joking.
- xani_ 4y ago
  It's just the way I prefer to learn stuff. Learning for learning sake without making anything out of it isn't for me, I learn best when getting knowledge in process of making something.
  - stuntkite 4y ago
    I realize it sounds like I was teasing you. I was not. I really relate and am impressed. Cheers.