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Feb 16, 2020 at 01:21
Open source can be used by companies to commoditise complementary products. It makes sense for them. There's nothing stopping others doing the same though! You run the risk of others trying to commoditise your value add. I wonder if this has happened?

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Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
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I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.
Jan 21, 2025 at 08:00
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues. ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).
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Sep 17, 2024 at 15:24
C++ no longer considers trivial infinite loops to be undefined behaviour! https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p2809r3.html Spotted in the release notes for the latest clang.
P2809R3: Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior