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by _benj 3y ago
Well great, I hate it! Yesterday somebody shared this with me and it made me reflect about what things could we learn from other engineering disciplines. It might be just me but I have this gnawing impression that a lot of the pains we have
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by _benj 3y ago
This made me laugh as my soul shriveled from the memories of codebases I’ve worked with :’-) I’m surprised at how some software companies actually survive!
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by _benj 3y ago
not an expert by any means on this, but I've worked before with the Khadas VIM boards, which are development boards where you can install Android and start developing your project. The advantage of those is that they use Amlogic chips
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by _benj 3y ago
So cool, and I love all the mentions of "fun" :-) I remember implementing a "kiosk" but the way my employer wanted it was a full screen electron/react app running on a windows server. It was such a pain working arou
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by _benj 3y ago
https://benjcal.space/ I started this not too long ago, mostly write about stuff that I’m exploring at the moment, i.e. I’m currently writing a quick post about making simple GUIs with Tcl/Tk, which turns out is way si
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by _benj 3y ago
I’m can’t believe that nobody said this but I can’t run this bare metal on my raspberry pi pico. It not being a single header C89 with no dependencies to the stdlib makes it a hard pass for me
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by _benj 3y ago
I've been using X11 and everything has been flawless.
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by _benj 3y ago
Same experience here. I was getting fed up with every new gnome release taking away more features and at the same time was missing the niceties of macOS. Decided to give plasma a try and it quickly turn into my daily driver. No need for gno
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by _benj 3y ago
Not op but also a very happy kagi customer. This is usually hard to answer because search results is very dependent on what is searched. For me the quality of results instead of a bunch “top 10 libraries to use with react in 2023” kind of r
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by _benj 3y ago
I'm still fuzzy on the difference between the two, would you mind to elaborate?
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by _benj 3y ago
This looks very interesting! Question: looks like Ghidra can be used as a GDB "interface", is that correct?
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by _benj 3y ago
That looks really nice! I was thinking gameboy next but I wasn’t sure I wanted to commit that much time to a toy project!
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by _benj 3y ago
I had a friend over while I was playing with chip8, and I’d need to explain to him how to implement a stack… I probably had him in mind while writing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by _benj 3y ago
Is 11ty with this theme: https://github.com/arpitbatra123/eleventy-blog-mnml Choice of stack also kept me away so I decided to just keep it simple! 11ty is pretty close to html/css, but it has the niceties of bein
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by _benj 3y ago
Typo indeed. I think I was using a diffuser ROM to illustrate something and then I decided to use a more simpler one but forgot to update the text… will fix soon :)
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The Adventures of Writing a CHIP8 Emulator – Part 2(benjcal.space)
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Sdl_nk: A single header library to use Nuklear with SDL and Cairo(github.com)
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by _benj 3y ago
A quick click at the link for “Microsoft Word” on the article might shed more light on the choice ;)
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by _benj 3y ago
> But also, the despair in what problems are actually kind of open. I loved the video too and initially felt the way you felt. But as I thought more about it, I don’t think that value is found in doing something that nobody ever has done
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by _benj 3y ago
Before posting I was looking at the comments to see how bad I was… after seeing 1k+ it seems like I’m fine with my 627 bitwarden items!
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by _benj 3y ago
I’m a very happy Kagi user, the search results are way better (subjective, I know) for me, that is, I can usually find what I’m looking for in the first few entries. I’m under the early adopter pricing but I fear that the higher price (and
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by _benj 3y ago
This is very cool! I was playing the with RP2040 and since I had a digital piano and a logic analyzer in front of me I decided to take a look at the midi signals. It took about 10 mins to reverse engineer them, make the RP2040 listen to the
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by _benj 3y ago
I think it depends on what you enjoy from programming. For programming MCU I like two levels, one is knowing the very low level, what is the first instruction the cpu runs. That implied understanding linker scripts and a bit of assembly and
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by _benj 3y ago
I’m still figuring it out :) just the position change in LinkedIn has started some conversations but I’m currently working on my personal site because it feel like when people ask me where to look for what I can do I don’t have anything to
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by _benj 3y ago
I just decided to pivot into consulting. Had saved so I have a bit of a runway, but the moment the thought occurred to me that I can forget about letcode shenanigans, and interviews and performance reviews, and terrible codebases and focus
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by _benj 3y ago
I came to write this. And answering to the child comment, I found tons of value in understanding better human communications. I think as engineers we can start thinking that correct “information” is what is required in interpersonal relatio
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Ask HN: Consultants, how do you manage client’s tech?
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by _benj 3y ago
The curl one made me chuckle! Might there be a case in which the git one and curl one both work?
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by _benj 4y ago
Not op but I’d guess Financial Independence
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by _benj 4y ago
I’m very curious about Haxe. From using ldtk and looking into haxeui and openfl, it looks like it could be good for multi platform gui apps. I’ve used godot for that purpose before but all the game stuff and limited libraries gets in the wa

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