Great, thoughtful discussion about the direction Racket wants go in. The reasoning is given and broader language goals are shared, way beyond syntax.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/racket-users/HiC7z3A5O-k/XPR2wbSJCQAJ
miniblog.
I love how GitHub converts code links to embedded code snippets. It requires no extra effort from the user, and it's really helpful.
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Tesla is closing many of its stores in favour of customers buying from its website.
It's clear that automating a manual process reduces the number of jobs, but perhaps access to information does too? Are we reducing sales teams due to websites?
What compiler intrinsics should you provide in a parallel programming language? When do they give you an asymptotic speedup?
A fun discussion for the Futhark programming language, including the *two* big-O measures for time!
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-04-10-what-is-the-minimal-basis-for-futhark.html
On the importance of pre-populated inputs in apps designed for consumers to create games: https://boingboing.net/2015/08/24/a-game-making-app-for-everyone.html
This principle probably applies to a ton of other domains too.
Making a Gameboy game in 2017, with a deep dive into the constraints of a 8MHz console with only 32KiB of memory! https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DoctorLudos/20171207/311143/Making_a_Game_Boy_game_in_2017_A_quotSheep_It_Upquot_PostMortem_part_12.php
On intentionally supporting both customer experience and employee experience within a company: https://hbr.org/2019/06/why-every-company-needs-a-chief-experience-officer
I've built a simple personal wiki/blog at https://notes.wilfred.me.uk/. It has few features and little content, but it works.
I've tried to apply an agile philosophy: ship it ASAP. This is hard for side projects. I found the features I wanted after shipping changed considerably!
Is there a term for debugging where you've fixed the issue, but you don't understand the behaviour that the bug produced?
"Fixed if(logged_in) which should have been if(!logged_in). No idea why users previously got their usernames ROT13'd."
Pronouns for code vary in different programming communities.
Feature oriented: "This library ... it provides"
Contributor oriented: "Our library ... we provide"
Anthropomorphising: "I provide"
Smalltalk favours the third option, which still makes me smile :)
I've consumed some excellent blog posts/podcasts recently. Free content is weird: there's little branding or promotion of it.
You end up with content that's less well known.
Today I learned that I can double the RAM in my $5/month servers Digital Ocean by rebuilding them!
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/16/digitalocean-gives-you-more-ram-and-storage-for-the-same-price/
I find it easier to remember markdown link syntax: I use it a lot and rarely use competing structured text syntax.
Return types seem much harder.
function foo() -> int
function foo(): int
int foo()
I encounter all of these regularly!
Apps exploring alternative payment systems to avoid fees on Google's App Store: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-19/tinder-bypasses-google-play-joining-revolt-against-app-store-fee
The rate of contributions to Pharo Smalltalk is increasing! https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/3814
Git isn't the easiest thing to learn, but it's definitely the lowest common denominator these days.
Replacing openSSL with Rustls can improve execution time, memory usage, and security! https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-rust-based-tls-library-outperformed-openssl-in-almost-every-category/
The potential performance improvements will probably motivate adoption even in C/C++ programs.
Pipe operator syntax is coming to JS!
Babel is a fabulous way of enabling users to try out new syntax and report how they find it.
https://babeljs.io/blog/2019/07/03/7.5.0
Docker has made managing my personal servers significantly easier. I can have autodeploy with https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower and proxy webservice ports with https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy.
Not needing to write a server config makes me faster, and commit->auto image->auto deploy is magical.
One nice property of mastodon usernames is that they're instantly recognisable, like emails.
When I saw @hund@linuxrocks.online on https://an3223.github.io/Living-without-the-modern-browser/ I immediately knew (due to the two @ signs) that it was a mastodon account.
Every software project seems to have a set of features you build only so it's better suited for its environment.
For example, a perfectly functional website still benefits from a favicon, robots.txt, open graph tags and minification.
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