Bootstrapping a language can be immensely satisfying.
I've added the ability to define stub types in the Garden stdlib and suddenly I don't need to special-case Int or String! They're just normal type declarations.
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I've been writing docs for different programming language operators (+, *, == and so on). Each one gets a separate web page.
I've suddenly realised that / is much harder! docs/+ and docs/== is fine, but docs// just doesn't work as a URL in a static site.
Any ideas?
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It was amazingly easy to add Tramp support to deadgrep.el. A single function change and suddenly you can run searches on remote machines too!
When I look at tools like Tor and other strong anonymity tools, the complexity is daunting. Only one mistake and suddenly you've outed yourself.
I used to suspect that strong anonymity is essentially impossible, but
Satoshi Nakamoto has demonstrated otherwise. Remarkable.