ulisp is an incredible achievement and has brought me a lot of joy. There is something very fun about writing lisp for an Arduino nano, and trying to golf your intentions into ~300 characters :)
I'd be interested in hearing an expanded take on GPLs presence in this list. The first and third elements are intuitive and confirm my own biases/believes, but the freedom/GPL entry confuses me, as I do see GPL…
Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console porting are only revealed years after the end…
I attempted to write a program once to solve for how annoying it can be to notate modular patches. It's essentially a small DSL that can produce graphviz charts of patches. There have been other attempts to do this kind…
At some point I heard the phrase: "Always be the dumbest guy in the room." I've tried to live by this to various extents, and it's kind of a counter-intuitive phrase, but the more I've thought about it the more it's…
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the Beeper offices over the past few weeks. I've had a hard time guessing their intent. To some extent all of this Beeper Mini stuff seems to be almost an elaborate…
I am a complete layman in the world of complex computer graphics programming and research, but I have an interest in it as someone who enjoys playing computer games. I really enjoyed this succinct YouTube video on the…
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area so I'm probably missing something, but my thought has always been the 'portability' of storing everything in the backend as UTC is more flexible/less complex…
I'm from South Africa, so I've always been captivated by the South African season/win at the 1995 Rugby World cup and the political context of it. Dramatized in the movie Invictus. I don't know if it's the best sporting…
Witch looks awesome, and I think has a killer feature I've been looking for for a while on linux (slightly off topic). I use rofi on linux to surface a dialog that allows me to execute programs, surface an X window, or…
I've always felt that $BIG_BRAND_DISTRO+KDE got pretty close. It's still Linux, so not quite the same, but as far as look and feel, it's pretty close I think.
Disclaimer: I am friends with the founder of log-store. I have been beta testing it for a while for small scale (~50 million non-nested json objects) log aggregation it's working beautifully for this case. It's a no…
Disclaimer: I am friends with the author of log-store and have been occasionally helping test the software. I've been using log-store at work for some time. It has an awesome 'admin' UX. The sysadmin/ops overhead…
I wouldn't call myself a security person, but I do have a fair amount of experience implementing things downstream of the security organization, and sometimes outside of that context. I think a reasonable place to start…
Right there with you Urist. Nothing else out there hijacks my brain quite like DF...
I don't think I implied making a package wasn't simple...from my comment: > With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upstreamed case
> the solution isn't "well, why don't they just use existing package management systems" Fair enough, I think I was more trying to unwrap the idea of "shell script standardization", which to me feels like a package…
Disclaimer: I know the developer of Ntfy and have worked with them in the past. I love this tool because it sits in a very convenient place in the alerting and monitoring stack. At work the kind of alerting pipelines…
I feel like you just described Perl, and I use Perl almost every day for this kind of thing, but people seem to hate it these days. The syntax can be weird, but I still think it really shines in cases like these.
What got you excited about this field in the first place? Try and get back in touch with that maybe. Try exploring another side of the field, like systems programming, or a language like Haskell. Maybe play around with…
This is excellent advice. I just wanted to add, don't underestimate the haircut. I've used this strategy several times to make clear dividing lines in between various periods of my life. For me creates a strangely…
I use regex101.com a lot for writing complex regex. It provides a very quick feedback loop for thinking about how I want to struct regex and be performant/safe in my implementation.
I'm interested in whether the technologists employed by this company will be able to pull it off. I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that in order to support a large scale social network, with typical…
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! What actually piqued my interest was the surface impression of something like a Lispier Perl/Python.
Oh awesome, thanks for sharing, I have already been looking at some community examples on there!
ulisp is an incredible achievement and has brought me a lot of joy. There is something very fun about writing lisp for an Arduino nano, and trying to golf your intentions into ~300 characters :)
I'd be interested in hearing an expanded take on GPLs presence in this list. The first and third elements are intuitive and confirm my own biases/believes, but the freedom/GPL entry confuses me, as I do see GPL…
Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console porting are only revealed years after the end…
I attempted to write a program once to solve for how annoying it can be to notate modular patches. It's essentially a small DSL that can produce graphviz charts of patches. There have been other attempts to do this kind…
At some point I heard the phrase: "Always be the dumbest guy in the room." I've tried to live by this to various extents, and it's kind of a counter-intuitive phrase, but the more I've thought about it the more it's…
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the Beeper offices over the past few weeks. I've had a hard time guessing their intent. To some extent all of this Beeper Mini stuff seems to be almost an elaborate…
I am a complete layman in the world of complex computer graphics programming and research, but I have an interest in it as someone who enjoys playing computer games. I really enjoyed this succinct YouTube video on the…
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area so I'm probably missing something, but my thought has always been the 'portability' of storing everything in the backend as UTC is more flexible/less complex…
I'm from South Africa, so I've always been captivated by the South African season/win at the 1995 Rugby World cup and the political context of it. Dramatized in the movie Invictus. I don't know if it's the best sporting…
Witch looks awesome, and I think has a killer feature I've been looking for for a while on linux (slightly off topic). I use rofi on linux to surface a dialog that allows me to execute programs, surface an X window, or…
I've always felt that $BIG_BRAND_DISTRO+KDE got pretty close. It's still Linux, so not quite the same, but as far as look and feel, it's pretty close I think.
Disclaimer: I am friends with the founder of log-store. I have been beta testing it for a while for small scale (~50 million non-nested json objects) log aggregation it's working beautifully for this case. It's a no…
Disclaimer: I am friends with the author of log-store and have been occasionally helping test the software. I've been using log-store at work for some time. It has an awesome 'admin' UX. The sysadmin/ops overhead…
I wouldn't call myself a security person, but I do have a fair amount of experience implementing things downstream of the security organization, and sometimes outside of that context. I think a reasonable place to start…
Right there with you Urist. Nothing else out there hijacks my brain quite like DF...
I don't think I implied making a package wasn't simple...from my comment: > With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upstreamed case
> the solution isn't "well, why don't they just use existing package management systems" Fair enough, I think I was more trying to unwrap the idea of "shell script standardization", which to me feels like a package…
Disclaimer: I know the developer of Ntfy and have worked with them in the past. I love this tool because it sits in a very convenient place in the alerting and monitoring stack. At work the kind of alerting pipelines…
I feel like you just described Perl, and I use Perl almost every day for this kind of thing, but people seem to hate it these days. The syntax can be weird, but I still think it really shines in cases like these.
What got you excited about this field in the first place? Try and get back in touch with that maybe. Try exploring another side of the field, like systems programming, or a language like Haskell. Maybe play around with…
This is excellent advice. I just wanted to add, don't underestimate the haircut. I've used this strategy several times to make clear dividing lines in between various periods of my life. For me creates a strangely…
I use regex101.com a lot for writing complex regex. It provides a very quick feedback loop for thinking about how I want to struct regex and be performant/safe in my implementation.
I'm interested in whether the technologists employed by this company will be able to pull it off. I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that in order to support a large scale social network, with typical…
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! What actually piqued my interest was the surface impression of something like a Lispier Perl/Python.
Oh awesome, thanks for sharing, I have already been looking at some community examples on there!