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by mhd 6y ago
My first blog ran on blosxom. I think I switched to something dynamic (textpattern) partly because back then I thought it mandatory that every month and day needed its own index if you just put in the month/day in the URL and stuff lik
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by mhd 6y ago
Another static-binary static-site generator I've recently discovered is Soupalt[1]. Which adds OCaml to the list of languages for that kind of thing, with extensibility via Lua. Has a a more unopinionated approach to thing, instead of
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Open Dylan 2020.1 – Now with LLVM Back End(opendylan.org)
6 points by mhd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mhd 6y ago
Mac System 9 running on modern hardware, not in an emulator?
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by mhd 6y ago
If you're really going for easy data entry and are willing to sacrifice program readability, I'd go with something that just has fewer tokens. The length of them hardly matters, as you can easily find shortcuts to enter them -- ev
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by mhd 6y ago
Yes, SCGI ranks even higher on the "forgotten" scale (not as sure about the "treasure" part). It's pretty great if you have to implement at least one end yourself (new http server, new connected language/framew
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by mhd 6y ago
I'm quite charmed by the code editor aesthetics.
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by mhd 6y ago
Ask me about loom.
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by mhd 6y ago
This is supposed to be a minimal, stand-alone dev kit. VS Code is large, wants you to download half the internet, brings in lots of dependences (a browser, a language runtime, graphics libraries etc.). Git wasn't on the menu because it
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by mhd 6y ago
I'd go for Lucida Grande. Never should've changed from that.
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by mhd 6y ago
I liked RiscOS best. Definitely on CRTs.
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by mhd 6y ago
> The distribution does not have WinAPI documentation. It’s notoriously difficult to obtain and, besides, unfriendly to redistribution. Is there no modern equivalent of good old win32.hlp?
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by mhd 6y ago
> buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises. That's pretty much what they did with
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by mhd 6y ago
I'm not sure whether I'd consider Nova to feel that much more "Apple-y", especially when that meant something. BBEdit does that, this just feels a bit too MacOS/iOS convergent.
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by mhd 6y ago
If I recall correctly, that's exactly what TextMate did years ago and what was one reason why it was considered to be so fast. Plus ca change in a proprietary world.
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by mhd 6y ago
Uneven C++ support was a big issue, too.
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by mhd 6y ago
> We cannot see a future for Zig where the founder does not allow corporate entities to use and support Zig Honestly, that's one of the most important reason I'm looking favorably at Zig. And D.
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by mhd 6y ago
Yeah, IIRC originally the nginx/lua integration was more about dynamically extending the core features and configuration, like virtual hosts or proxies. But that does get you a pretty high-speed interface, if you're willing to bet
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by mhd 6y ago
> Open Source seems to have an irrational fear of done. Older open source was more okay with this, but it's a huge issue with the modern JS/github model, where quality is measured by recent updates, "stars" within the
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by mhd 6y ago
Germany had the same with BTX, was there anything like this at all in the US (for the public, not for army/services/proto-Bloomberg)? Probably not, or else some people would focus more on providing an internet-ready equivalent to
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by mhd 6y ago
I wonder what other interesting audio delivery/distribution formats we could build players for: - game boy cartridges (or even larger cartridge formats) - zip discography disks (i.e. one disk per artist) - small internal ram, transmiss
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by mhd 6y ago
I always thought that "Strange Days" was one of the prime examples of "underrated movies", so it often gets mentioned that it gets rarely mentioned ;) (Another movie I'd put in this group, Arnold Braunschweiger&#x27
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by mhd 6y ago
Dresden? Not sure how the monorails in Japan or in Memphis relate to the Wuppertal construction.
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by mhd 6y ago
I remember when free access to the web and its technologies was something good. From having a free browser, free web server (as in Apache/Linux, not the hardware/connection) to being able to read the very HTML code that's use
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by mhd 6y ago
Got any specific citations? His general opinion seems pretty clear, but I would like him going on about some details. I think I remember him saying that if one would want to design a language, starting with Oberon would be his recommendatio
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by mhd 6y ago
Implementing Oberon the language went hand in hand with implementing Oberon the operating system. So when we're talking about productivity he's mostly talking about operating systems and interfacing with hardware, where you usuall
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by mhd 6y ago
Ah, found it here[1]: "To postulate a state-less model of computation on top of a machinery whose most eminent characteristic is state, seems to be an odd idea, to say the least. The gap between model and machinery is wide, and therefo
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by mhd 6y ago
That would be "Compiler Construction", the last version being freely available[1]. Given that Oberon is a simpler language than pretty much all of its predecessors and that the latest revision went even further, I'd be intere
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by mhd 6y ago
Maybe "much better" when it comes to distraction-less writing, although I don't think a DOS computer offers more than that, and the portability only enables going to places where there's more going on… But a predilecti
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by mhd 6y ago
Never mind the scripting and frugality, I'm quite interested in the cache setup. Do you get any notifications that the current state isn't what's displayed, similar to what you get in text editor buffers?

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