battesonb

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   by battesonb 10mo ago

   Do you have a write up about this? Actions are great, but my #2 gripe with actions, after the tenuous security posture, is that the default practice is not to run/validate actions locally.
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   by battesonb 1y ago

   I'm surprised not to see any comments about rainbow brackets for the Lisp family of languages. I just started in a non-Emacs environment to avoid learning two things, but colourful brackets have made the paradigm shift a lot easier for
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   by battesonb 1y ago

   Agreed on this. Especially with the return keyword argument presented in the same article. An assertion of correctness relating to a matter of taste is, ironically, going to be trivially falsifiable. Even though I found myself personally ag
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   by battesonb 1y ago

   I can vouch for Mealie. My wife and I run it locally for family recipes and to pull down recipes from websites. I have a DNS ad blocker running, but most recipe sites are still a mess to navigate on mobile. You can also distill recipes down
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   by battesonb 1y ago

   I'm exactly that person. Always running an older device and lamenting the lack of small devices. Unfortunately, the mainstream wants big devices, so we all get big devices.
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   by battesonb 3y ago

   We somewhat have this with object picking. You can render objects with unique IDs to a framebuffer, so it's all in parallel. Then you just query the buffer at your mouse coordinates. Of course you lose some properties of the object and
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   by battesonb 3y ago

   I look over at Zig with envy every time I have to write and, inevitably, look up how to write a Rust macro.
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   by battesonb 3y ago

   I started writing a static analysis tool for the BNF metasyntax. Basically one half of a parser generator, which I do not intend to implement as it's all just for fun!
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   by battesonb 3y ago

   I switched to Neovim because of RSI. I don't think I would have been able to keep my job without it. I know the other editors have Vim emulation plug-ins, but I found I would always reach for the mouse if I didn't know the keystro
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    by battesonb 3y ago

    https://battesonb.github.io A relatively new blog. I've picked up posting more frequently in the last few weeks. Right now, I'm working through making a simple game end-to-end using WebGPU and TypeScript. I enjoy revis