Stories by Moonchild
I want to make a GUI. What's the least sucky way to accomplish that? Open to any language, but has to work cross-platform and be free. JavaFX? Qt? Something arcane?
Moving house, and trying to set things up more properly this time. I had been running opensmtpd, but have heard questionable things about openbsd code, and it's annoying to configure. Qmail seems nice in some respects—modular, configurable, secure, large patch 'ecosystem', etc.; my dad runs it—but...
Consider this snippet of c:
```c
void f(int *x);
void g(void) {
struct {
int foo;
char bar;
struct foo *baz;
int *biz;
void (*booze)(void);
struct {
int foo;
char bar;
} bones;
} x;
f(&x.
```
The cursor is at the very end of the file, and the envir...
"What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex!"
(etherrotmutex.blogspot.com)
a few weeks ago, i gained a need for something roughly spreadsheet-shaped. very tiny—1e4 or 1e5 rows, if that. i decided my options were:
- literal spreadsheet
- sqlite plus some sugar
- mathematica notebook
i have never used mathematica before in any serious capacity (nor anything else in...
Recent post '[If programming languages were futurama characters](https://lobste.rs/s/tgyd8r/if_programming_languages_were_futurama)' was tagged 'satire'. It does not seem to be satirising anything, though; probably, 'satire' was only applied because it was humorous. This seems to indicate an unsat...