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by zserge 4y ago
Huh! Falling into exactly this trap, I ended up writing a tiny Tcl interpreter for the embedded systems years ago: https://zserge.com/posts/tcl-interpreter/
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by zserge 4y ago
A humble attempt to make an even smaller but barely readable 3x2 font (probably the smallest possible) : https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/
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by zserge 5y ago
Just started learning Zig, but I'm already amazed by the language. Feels so intuitive, simple and productive, really a good choice for quick prototyping. I'm glad to see Zig being used as a "successor" to C in projects l
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by zserge 5y ago
Nice and clean! I have been playing around the possibility to make a 2x3 bitmap font, but that turned out to be rather a cryptic constellation of pixels than a proper font: https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/
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by zserge 5y ago
I have been using quilt a lot a few years ago. We have been working on some embedded systems,and were receiving the base firmware sources of questionable quality from some shady Chinese manufacturer as a zip (or sometimes rar) archive on a
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by zserge 5y ago
You mean like a web search engine? A quick search on "gio lib" shows a wiki for Gtk's GIO as the first result. You might narrow down the search adding domain-specific keywords to it, like "gio lib golang" to find so
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by zserge 5y ago
And tcc/otcc
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by zserge 5y ago
A long time Linux user myself (Gentoo->Arch->Ubuntu), switched to M1 macBook for work recently. The battery life is amazing, and I haven't heard the CPU fan yet (seriously, I compile things a lot, but the CPU fan remains idle and
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by zserge 6y ago
I think Chinese numbered notation does something similar: https://web.stanford.edu/group/scme/cgi-bin/wordpress1/chine... Notes longer than quarter look like `1`, `1-` and `1---` which creates visual spa
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by zserge 6y ago
Glad to see this topic getting attention on HN! I just finished a post about 1-bit music a few days ago: https://zserge.com/posts/1-bit-music/
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by zserge 6y ago
I was only speaking about one-man personal projects. In my case, I shipped 3 of them (nullitics, lalatabs and a brand new version of onthesamepage) in 3 months. Depends on the project type and on the person, I guess.
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by zserge 6y ago
I start small: vim, makefile, bare Go with no dependencies. I add things only if they improve the end product from the consumer perspective (either FRs or NFRs). I even used to deploy things as systemd services, unless containers make thing
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by zserge 6y ago
As the one who works simultaneously with macOS and Linux, I would be happy to see some unification. I'm not speaking about visual differences or look-n-feel of the apps, but common tasks like desktop switching or window switching - thi
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by zserge 6y ago
Zig code looks way more readable to my eyes, damaged by the years of staring at C/C++. Also the learning curve for Zig so far seems to be relatively shallow. The documentation is rather "ok-ish", comparing to Go for example.
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by zserge 6y ago
Seems like there's a bit of exaggeration here. "Not willing to pay" != "not willing to pay 10+€/month for 30 distinct semi-random numbers each month". There are plenty of people willing to pay low prices (compa
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by zserge 6y ago
If the content of your blog is not too niche - one can easily live without analytics by just looking at the numbers of upvotes on HN/Reddit etc. However, for starters and for very narrow topics some kind of analytics would still be use
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by zserge 6y ago
I have been using this for a while, GoAccess is a wonderful little tool to automate the parsing. Highly recommend to those who prefer the old-school approach towards web analytics. https://goaccess.io/
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by zserge 6y ago
I am currently working on exactly this! I have always been dreaming of a low-cost, zero-effort web analytics. So far I have made an open source library/service, I've been using it for my blog and a few other sites for over two mon
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by zserge 6y ago
I did in my music/generative art app, where I compiled math expressions into native code using TCC as a backend. Actually, it was _so_ much easier than dynasm and other JIT libraries, and so little code, and yet, it was a great perform
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by zserge 6y ago
Many years, and still impressing. I wonder if similar projects exist for other languages (preferably, without a use of `eval()` and friends).
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by zserge 6y ago
I wonder if there is a way to run this in some kind of an emulator?
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by zserge 6y ago
That's quite a campaign. And I once had a job whose major role was to put out the dumpster fire caused by this lovely little framework.
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by zserge 6y ago
Some time ago I've made a humble decoding of this wonderful code snippet: https://zserge.com/posts/j/
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by zserge 6y ago
That was deliberate. There are password-protected boards, password can be set from the menu. But the default page IDs were meant to be short, pronouncible and easy to type. Also you may enter your own page ID manually, just open https:&#x2
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by zserge 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! OnTheSamePage is the oldest one, I made it more than a year ago, but then got distracted with my relocation to Germany and all the related fun. Lalatabs was a very fun challenge - I made it during 24 days in Decembe
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by zserge 6y ago
Yes, but not in the menu yet (there is a big launch planned) - https://onthesamepage.online/example/png or https://onthesamepage.online/example/svg (just append "/png" or "&#x2
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by zserge 6y ago
It has been a tough decision, and I still have doubts to be honest. However, I personally would never pay for analytics more than what I pay for domain+hosting. Also, the niche of mid-priced analytics is already rather full - SimpleAnalytic
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by zserge 6y ago
I work on these three projects to launch them soon: * https://onthesamepage.online/ - a minimalist private whiteboard with no registration; already used in German schools, but working on scaling it and prepare for a more ge
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by zserge 6y ago
I'm afraid that won't be allowed for data URLs anyway, they can't access localStorage, or their cookies, or even redirect their own URL location.
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by zserge 6y ago
After a long time without RSS, I had to make the most minimal reader myself: https://zserge.com/posts/rss/ Sources are on github: https://github.com/zserge/headline

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