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Why English will never be a programming language(slater.dev)
3 points by sltr 4mo ago|4 comments
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by sltr 4mo ago
Contrarian view: Why English will never be a programming language. https://www.slater.dev/2026/05/why-english-will-never-be-a-p...
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by sltr 4mo ago
For a deep dive on UB with printf, see https://srs.fyi/see-conversions/ > When programming in C, to avoid unexpected pitfalls, one must be acutely aware of a whole slew of implicit behaviors (some of which are imple
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by sltr 4mo ago
> Chrome is recommended Who recommends Chrome? I don't.
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by sltr 4mo ago
Obligatory in any discussion of money fraud: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
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by sltr 5mo ago
I will move the handful of my projects that use Bun to something else. I don't trust governance that permits this kind of reckless change.
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by sltr 5mo ago
spec isn't code. There's a C language specification and many implementations. There are a handful of browsers each implementing HTML, JS, and CSS specs in their own way.
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Why you should still type code in 2026(slater.dev)
5 points by sltr 5mo ago|0 comments
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by sltr 5mo ago
One thing is clear: an LLM wrote this.
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by sltr 5mo ago
I moved over back when GitHub was planning to charge per minute to use my own runner. It was easy with Claude, the gh API, and forgejo web API. I even set up daily backups to my S3 clone of choice. The only repos I left on GitHub are forks
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by sltr 5mo ago
the corollary of Chesterton's Fence is also valuable: don't go putting up unnecessary fences, because others won't be able to take them down
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by sltr 5mo ago
Mentioned in the footnotes, CuriousMarc has 3 videos on this device. https://youtu.be/aPIZwqq_W_k?si=wAkRagRx-B06TXwY
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by sltr 5mo ago
> Email is the most accessible interface in the world Email is one of the most gatekept interfaces in the world.
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by sltr 6mo ago
There's been a course for that since before 2015: https://30x500.com/academy/ I am currently taking it. From the landing page: > Most of us, when we want to ship a product, we start at the beginning and with th
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by sltr 6mo ago
"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned." -- Fred Brooks on project management
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by sltr 6mo ago
People like this will create a net increase in software jobs. Once his software makes enough money so he doesn't have to sit in front of a computer, he will employ someone. It will initially be a gig fixing slop. https://www
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by sltr 6mo ago
about a year ago I shared this on /r/AskProgramming: "...a Pull Request is a delivery. It's like UPS standing at your door with a package. You think, "Nice, the feature, bugfix, etc has arrived! And because it'
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Avalonia WebView Is Now Free and Open Source(github.com)
8 points by sltr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by sltr 7mo ago
Next up: DOGE cancels leap seconds. /s
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by sltr 7mo ago
The article expresses what a lot of us are feeling. I appreciated the read. It conflates purpose with outcome. I don't accept the premise that software's purpose is to "automate away other jobs". That may be an outcome,
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by sltr 7mo ago
It just reads and writes the hledger file format. It doesn't use the hledger binary or source code.
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by sltr 7mo ago
The formal engineering disciplines are not defined by the construction vs design distinction so much as the regulatory gates they have passed and the ethical burdens they shoulder for society's benefit. https://www.slater.de
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by sltr 7mo ago
I did it with Tauri. ~14MB Windows, macOS, and Linux exe, browser app, iOS, and Android. https://code.slater.dev/doug/praylist/
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by sltr 7mo ago
Fully agree here in Tennessee
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Show HN: Ditch your budget app subscription. Surebeans is a modern YNAB4(surebeans.net)
2 points by sltr 7mo ago|4 comments
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by sltr 7mo ago
Blogged about modular code and LLMs few days ago https://www.slater.dev/2026/02/relieve-your-context-anxiety-...
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Relieve your context anxiety with modular thinking(slater.dev)
1 points by sltr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by sltr 7mo ago
I've been looking for something like this. It was just two weeks ago I had Claude modify Wezterm to add tree-style vertical reorderable tabs. It works OK but your solution is nicer. So I've been using cmux for a few hours this mor
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by sltr 8mo ago
LLMs are not bicycles for the mind. They are more like E-bikes. More assist makes you go faster, but provides less exercise. https://www.slater.dev/2025/08/llms-are-not-bicycles-for-the...
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Don't believe "software never fails"(slater.dev)
4 points by sltr 9mo ago|2 comments

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