90s_dev

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by 90s_dev 1y ago
All APIs are experimental and in a state of constant flux and evolution, including the web. The only time status quo is fine is when it's for clients and employers who just want stuff done and don't care how. In that context, all
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> burnout that I later found out was in reality ME/CFS In my experience, burnout is really just a subconscious realization that what you're doing is just not worth doing , even for large amounts of money, and it manifests itse
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Actually maybe this is one way to explan it: When Pico 8 came out, I immediately had a feeling of recognition and familiarity: "Oh! So this is the app I was half dreaming of making all these years!* The app I'm making now gives
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference Is there a comparison guide? Never heard of this before, but I used io-ts and ajv.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Thanks! It's hard to know exactly why. What I do know is that I'm surprised week after week with breakthroughs I never dreamed possible and which I think other people will find very useful, and these each renew my excitement.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Sure, I don't disagree. But so is deviating from that standard. I'm just talking about people who are overly restrictive of their own language usage. The best authors broke rules and made up words as needed.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Huh? You woulda said this comment also isn't valid English. Contractions, exclamations, shortucts of every kind, are legit. (Though some usuallyo only appear in certain mediums U+1F609.)
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Only this modern article[1]. Can't find any scholars or Church Fathers on this. Seems to be an entirely new theory in history, most likely because women were dismissed as possible author since (a) Hebrews 11:32 uses a masculine first p
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I admitted it was superficial. But it's the same reason I find English more natural than Italian or Greek. I grew up with C. We're only human after all.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Yep. I love finding someone's old project on github and going through it and especially comparing it to stuff they did release and seeing how it was merely a stepping stone and a way for them to learn something. That significantly in
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Definitely something I've worried about. But a major architectural change is different than an improvement. I've left a lot of low hanging fruit for me to fix up after release. But with this change it would literally become a new,
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> This phrase is so common it's practically correct. In fact, that's how language works. Whatever emerges from organic use is correct language. We the people decide what proper English is, collectively , not a prestigious
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> just start anything NOW. Don't worry about getting organized or the correct order; just go Yes! Projects develop organically, with many stop gap solutions and temporary scaffolds built and torn down along the way. Rome wasn't
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
As another religious person, your comment was as boring and difficult to follow as a typical Sunday homily, and for the same reasons. The world doesn't need even more bone dry exhortations and predictable parables. For God's sak
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Maybe someone can make a curated wiki page of people's unfinished and/or abandoned projects so everyone can put theirs there? (Oh wait, that's just github.)
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> I wish I had this energy again. I used to think my youthful energy was gone forever. Then about 3 months ago I had an idea for a project I truly believed in. I was able to write code for 16 hours straight, day after day, for most of
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I once had a list similar in time and length. It was a great portfolio, but I slowly realized I just made it to remind myself I'm not a perpetually incapable imbecile. Deleting it and giving away those projects was so freeing. I had no
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> However, my "paralysis by analysis" affliction is strong. The solution is to remember that nothing is perfect, and that all code is eventually thrown away and replaced. So just start writing code and have fun!
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Squirrel (Programming Language)(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|0 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Why?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Do you mean at runtime but only once at startup, like parsing a Lua program into bytecode? Or do you mean at true compile time like Zig and Rust format strings?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Yet you were even before that, the moment you made programs work at all .
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I hate to be superficial, but languages without braces just feel weird to me. I can use them and have even for a paycheck, but... no thanks. Even Lua, one of my favorite languages (if not #1), always feels at least slightly weird when
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Rather, QB was the pico8 of the 1990s. Convenient, self-contained, mysterious, quasi-powerful, in-app help menu for the entire language and API, and a few built-in demo games.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I remember VB-DOS, and fondly too. It was magical . I think I used it even before VB3.
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FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux(freebasic.net)
115 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|45 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
For the longest time, I used them just in case it would otherwise cause a bug. But TypeScript fully takes this into account and checks for all these scenarios.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
The only inherent feature of JSX is compile time "parsing" whereas tagged literals inherently require runtime string parsing. But yeah other than that you're right. I'm just talking about first-class VS Code support. W
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Matt, who works pretty high level on VS Code, has written some amazing plugins. But they still don't have all the first-class features of JSX. I don't think this plugin works with type checking for instance.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
JSX supports * Autocompletion * Type checking * Syntax highlighting * Lack of runtime string parsing Tagged template literals don't.

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