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Stories by chrislloyd

"A Philosophy of Software Design" vs "Clean Code" (github.com)
L 74 pts 40 comments by chrislloyd Feb 24, 2025 programmingtranscript Programming (General)Design / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
What are you excited about?
L 58 pts 114 comments by chrislloyd May 12, 2024 askprogramming Programming (General) thread
What's got you up at night, blown your mind or got you dancing? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to not be excited at all, too.
Announcing Swift 6 (swift.org)
L 53 pts 12 comments by chrislloyd Sep 17, 2024 releaseswift Apple / macOS / iOS thread
git-remote-sqlite: Single-file Git repos that can replicate with Litestream (github.com)
L 37 pts 8 comments by chrislloyd Jun 6, 2025 showvcs Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
A weird epic ramble about Etsy’ homepages from the middle 2000’s (twitter.com)
L 36 pts 5 comments by chrislloyd Jul 22, 2022 programming Programming (General) thread
The Power of Prolog (metalevel.at)
L 31 pts 11 comments by chrislloyd Jan 12, 2023 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Fidget (mattkeeter.com)
L 30 pts 5 comments by chrislloyd Jan 8, 2025 graphics thread
Phantom: Persistent Operating System (github.com)
L 25 pts 7 comments by chrislloyd Feb 10, 2022 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The Cell Programming Language (cell-lang.net)
L 23 pts 3 comments by chrislloyd Jun 30, 2022 plt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Defense of Lisp macros: an automotive tragedy (mihaiolteanu.me)
L 21 pts 3 comments by chrislloyd Jul 25, 2024 practices Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart (sophiebits.com)
L 20 pts 4 comments by chrislloyd Oct 31, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Version Control for Structure Editing (alarmingdevelopment.org)
L 20 pts 5 comments by chrislloyd Oct 19, 2021 pltvcs Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Draggable objects (redblobgames.com)
L 19 pts 7 comments by chrislloyd Jul 3, 2023 javascriptweb Web Development thread
Evolving a codebase at Google Scale (laurent.le-brun.eu)
L 18 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Sep 21, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Putting out the hardware dumpster fire (dl.acm.org)
L 18 pts 2 comments by chrislloyd Jun 23, 2023 hardwareosdevpdf Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Costs exposed: Monorepo vs. multirepo (jmmv.dev)
L 17 pts 16 comments by chrislloyd Aug 23, 2023 practicesvcs Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk (humprog.org)
L 16 pts 5 comments by chrislloyd Oct 6, 2022 osdevpdfplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (pubby.games)
L 15 pts 3 comments by chrislloyd Feb 13, 2025 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The $440 Million Software Error at Knight Capital (henricodolfing.com)
L 15 pts 2 comments by chrislloyd Jul 19, 2023 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Teardown Frame Teardown (acko.net)
L 14 pts 0 comments by chrislloyd Jan 24, 2023 gamesgraphics Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Grove: A Bidirectionally Typed Collaborative Structure Editor Calculus (dl.acm.org)
L 13 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Mar 10, 2025 editorspdfvcs Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread
Frink data file for non-changing units (frinklang.org)
L 12 pts 13 comments by chrislloyd Feb 6, 2025 science Science / Math / Physics thread
git-pile: Stacked diff support for GitHub workflows (github.com)
L 12 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Oct 1, 2023 vcs Programming (General) thread
Zest: notation and representation (scattered-thoughts.net)
L 10 pts 3 comments by chrislloyd Feb 5, 2024 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
META II: a syntax-oriented compiler writing language (1964) (dl.acm.org)
L 10 pts 5 comments by chrislloyd Aug 20, 2023 compilerspdfplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
No-code, no thought? Substrates for simple programming for all (tomasp.net)
L 9 pts 2 comments by chrislloyd Apr 28, 2022 pltprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
What is a File? (2013) (microsoft.com)
L 9 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Feb 15, 2021 osdevpdf Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
For over 40 years the notion of the file, as devised by pioneers in the field of computing, has been the subject of much contention. Some have wanted to abandon the term altogether on the grounds that metaphors about files can confuse users and designers alike. More recently, the emergence of the ‘c...
Software Deployment, Speed, and Safety (brooker.co.za)
L 8 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Jan 31, 2022 devopspractices Programming (General)Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Project Oberon (New Edition 2013) (people.inf.ethz.ch)
L 7 pts 1 comments by chrislloyd Sep 14, 2023 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Reactive Programming without Functions (programming-journal.org)
L 6 pts 4 comments by chrislloyd Mar 24, 2024 plt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread