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Feb 7, 2014 at 21:17

I'm implementing basic I/O in Trifle lisp today! It's remarkably hard to have code test coverage for simple things like opening a file.

Mar 20, 2026 at 12:02

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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)

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.

Feb 14, 2026 at 13:43

I've been tinkering with an LLM interface with my calendar and it's really nice to use. "Delete my April trip" is a lot less fiddly than opening calendar, switching to the month view, scrolling to April and so on. I should probably build an undo as well though.

Jan 23, 2022 at 22:06

Difftastic does syntax highlighting based on tree-sitter's parse of the *whole file*. It's more accurate than most diffs are able to do. In this hunk, the opening " of the string literal isn't included, but difftastic still knows that the first lines are from a string.

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