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Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024

259 points by janvdberg 2y ago

voidUpdate 2y ago
This is the second time I've seen the Alexander the OK video about Elite referenced here in two workdays. I love that channel so much, he does excellent dives into the history of more obscure vintage computers, such as the D-17B Minuteman guidance computer and the CK37 used in the Viggen jet
datpiff 2y ago
The History of Wordstar is there for the second year in a row :)
AnnaEloise201 2y ago
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leetrout 2y ago
Some commentary about the radar... try: Boox Go 10.3 tablet Agree. Avoid reMarkable™. Hostile to the community and better options are out there or on the way including Boox, Onyx and the new Daylight Computer. https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-note-taking-tablet/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-note-taking-tablet/ --- adopt: Blank Spaces app No need to pay money on ios. Clear off all the icons and when you need something swipe down in the middle of the screen and open search or swipe over to the alphabetical listing. Windows Phone was way ahead of its time on this one. --- assess: TypeScript – What does it buy me over JS? This one is a little bit flame bait... at the cost of a build step you get a much more reasonable development experience for JS targets with reliable types. The problem is smart people want to flex their brain a lot more than their restraint (where are my grug brains at?) and type astronauting makes the experience much worse. As with all things there is a balance however TS should be "Adopt". --- hold: Zig – This looks like a dead-end for me I keep looking at Zig and playing with it but I am so productive with Go and Python for things that need to be fast enough Zig doesn't have much that I need. However Mitchell Hashimoto is using it to great success for his new MacOS terminal emulator which makes me think I just haven't tried using it in the appropriate domain... maybe a raytracer is in my future. https://mitchellh.com/ghostty https://mitchellh.com/ghostty https://github.com/ghostty-org https://github.com/ghostty-org
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
  I was trying zig yesterday. There seems to be a bunch of churn in build.zig; changed APIs. ChatGPT wasn't able to help. Rocky start but I did eventually get GLFW running, and the c-interop seems good. Also got some freezing in my IDE maybe from ZLS. So it still seems a bit rough at the moment but I'm still optimistic about it for things like game dev and compiling to wasm.
- MisterKent 2y ago
  Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a very good balance of letting the community do weird things while they focus on their core product. I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it. I used to be a reMarkable owner (until I lost it :( ) and I agree that the devices are very user-friendly in terms of hackability and ability to use it long after the company itself is gone. Getting SSH access by flicking a toggle in the settings sounds like the opposite of "hostile to the community".
    - leetrout 2y ago
      A token of goodwill for compliance with GPL. If they actually cared about the community they would share the spec for Xochitl docs and such. Instead some blessed few in the discord know people at the company and get some info through back channels for the UI bits and the rest is cobbled together reverse engineering. Some people seem fine with that but coupled with their robo-law firm sending C&D takedowns to community sites where people share content they have created for reMarkable™ tablets and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Glad others have had better experiences.
      - cooperadymas 2y ago
AnnaEloise201 2y ago
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hubraumhugo 2y ago
Any good alternatives for "adopt: Blank Spaces app" on Android?
- mamoul 2y ago
  Check Niagara Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launcher&utm_source=Niagara+Website&pli=1 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launche...
  - JadeNB 2y ago
    Why would a launcher need to share my location with third parties?
    - dpatterbee 2y ago
      Built in weather widget
      - JadeNB 2y ago
        > Built in weather widget Thanks. I figured, but boy, does this annoy me. Google, for example, refuses to show me the weather without location permission. I am perfectly capable of telling it where I want to see the weather, but it will not allow me to see any weather without a location permission. (Usually I think Samsung screws up their design decisions relative to Google, but they do get this one right.) Similarly, it seems to me, a launcher does not need to share my location with a third party to request weather. It can simply request weather in, say, a ZIP code, and then, if it must, refine the results it presents to me based on my location. (Or, better, there must be some way for it to delegate weather requests to a weather app of my choice, and let the weather app figure out my location through whatever mechanism I have already approved for that app.)
- thcipriani 2y ago
  Unlauncher[0] looks close (to me, someone who has never used Blank Spaces). [0]: <https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/ https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/>
gandalfgeek 2y ago
Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in 2024?
- bachmeier 2y ago
  It may not have been important or interesting to him, or maybe he just figured the 10-digit number of articles written on the topic in 2024 (most by LLMs) was enough.
- fogus 2y ago
  LLMs have had very little influence on my programming so far.
  - projectileboy 2y ago
    I’d be surprised if they had, working on what you work on! I’ll bet you would find them interesting in other ways, though. I’ve had a ton of success using them as study guides in other areas (e.g., biology).
  - xpe 2y ago
    I predict this is likely to change in 2025, if you explore with them -- unless there are constraints that make using them impractical (security or policy or bureaucracy being the ones that come to mind). I've experimented continuously with LLMs for over a year as a solo developer. For example, I have been using a workflow where I write a design document and often work alongside the LLM to keep the code and document in-sync. P.S. I used to do a lot of Clojure, and definitely appreciate your work on it!
jwhitlark 2y ago
Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc. If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping, it would be fogus, of course.
zem 2y ago
the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely
- crux 2y ago
  Thank you - I wrote that! Happy to discuss further if anyone has any thoughts.
tonymet 2y ago
I esteem & enjoy Requiem for a Dream, but I couldn't bear watching it again, despite a dozen tries. By that measure it's the best horror movie of all time.
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259 points by janvdberg 2y ago

This is the second time I've seen the Alexander the OK video about Elite referenced here in two workdays. I love that channel so much, he does excellent dives into the history of more obscure vintage computers, such as the D-17B Minuteman guidance computer and the CK37 used in the Viggen jet

datpiff 2y ago

The History of Wordstar is there for the second year in a row :)

AnnaEloise201 2y ago

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leetrout 2y ago

Some commentary about the radar... try: Boox Go 10.3 tablet Agree. Avoid reMarkable™. Hostile to the community and better options are out there or on the way including Boox, Onyx and the new Daylight Computer. https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-note-taking-tablet/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-note-taking-tablet/ --- adopt: Blank Spaces app No need to pay money on ios. Clear off all the icons and when you need something swipe down in the middle of the screen and open search or swipe over to the alphabetical listing. Windows Phone was way ahead of its time on this one. --- assess: TypeScript – What does it buy me over JS? This one is a little bit flame bait... at the cost of a build step you get a much more reasonable development experience for JS targets with reliable types. The problem is smart people want to flex their brain a lot more than their restraint (where are my grug brains at?) and type astronauting makes the experience much worse. As with all things there is a balance however TS should be "Adopt". --- hold: Zig – This looks like a dead-end for me I keep looking at Zig and playing with it but I am so productive with Go and Python for things that need to be fast enough Zig doesn't have much that I need. However Mitchell Hashimoto is using it to great success for his new MacOS terminal emulator which makes me think I just haven't tried using it in the appropriate domain... maybe a raytracer is in my future. https://mitchellh.com/ghostty https://mitchellh.com/ghostty https://github.com/ghostty-org https://github.com/ghostty-org

8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
I was trying zig yesterday. There seems to be a bunch of churn in build.zig; changed APIs. ChatGPT wasn't able to help. Rocky start but I did eventually get GLFW running, and the c-interop seems good. Also got some freezing in my IDE maybe from ZLS. So it still seems a bit rough at the moment but I'm still optimistic about it for things like game dev and compiling to wasm.
MisterKent 2y ago
Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a very good balance of letting the community do weird things while they focus on their core product. I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it.
- diggan 2y ago
  > I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it. I used to be a reMarkable owner (until I lost it :( ) and I agree that the devices are very user-friendly in terms of hackability and ability to use it long after the company itself is gone. Getting SSH access by flicking a toggle in the settings sounds like the opposite of "hostile to the community".
  - leetrout 2y ago
    A token of goodwill for compliance with GPL. If they actually cared about the community they would share the spec for Xochitl docs and such. Instead some blessed few in the discord know people at the company and get some info through back channels for the UI bits and the rest is cobbled together reverse engineering. Some people seem fine with that but coupled with their robo-law firm sending C&D takedowns to community sites where people share content they have created for reMarkable™ tablets and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Glad others have had better experiences.
    - cooperadymas 2y ago

AnnaEloise201 2y ago

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hubraumhugo 2y ago

Any good alternatives for "adopt: Blank Spaces app" on Android?

mamoul 2y ago
Check Niagara Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launcher&utm_source=Niagara+Website&pli=1 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launche...
- JadeNB 2y ago
  Why would a launcher need to share my location with third parties?
  - dpatterbee 2y ago
    Built in weather widget
    - JadeNB 2y ago
      > Built in weather widget Thanks. I figured, but boy, does this annoy me. Google, for example, refuses to show me the weather without location permission. I am perfectly capable of telling it where I want to see the weather, but it will not allow me to see any weather without a location permission. (Usually I think Samsung screws up their design decisions relative to Google, but they do get this one right.) Similarly, it seems to me, a launcher does not need to share my location with a third party to request weather. It can simply request weather in, say, a ZIP code, and then, if it must, refine the results it presents to me based on my location. (Or, better, there must be some way for it to delegate weather requests to a weather app of my choice, and let the weather app figure out my location through whatever mechanism I have already approved for that app.)
thcipriani 2y ago
Unlauncher[0] looks close (to me, someone who has never used Blank Spaces). [0]: <https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/ https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/>

gandalfgeek 2y ago

Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in 2024?

bachmeier 2y ago
It may not have been important or interesting to him, or maybe he just figured the 10-digit number of articles written on the topic in 2024 (most by LLMs) was enough.
fogus 2y ago
LLMs have had very little influence on my programming so far.
- projectileboy 2y ago
  I’d be surprised if they had, working on what you work on! I’ll bet you would find them interesting in other ways, though. I’ve had a ton of success using them as study guides in other areas (e.g., biology).
- xpe 2y ago
  I predict this is likely to change in 2025, if you explore with them -- unless there are constraints that make using them impractical (security or policy or bureaucracy being the ones that come to mind). I've experimented continuously with LLMs for over a year as a solo developer. For example, I have been using a workflow where I write a design document and often work alongside the LLM to keep the code and document in-sync. P.S. I used to do a lot of Clojure, and definitely appreciate your work on it!

jwhitlark 2y ago

Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc. If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping, it would be fogus, of course.

zem 2y ago

the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely

crux 2y ago
Thank you - I wrote that! Happy to discuss further if anyone has any thoughts.

tonymet 2y ago

I esteem & enjoy Requiem for a Dream, but I couldn't bear watching it again, despite a dozen tries. By that measure it's the best horror movie of all time.

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