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Stories by silby

How I learned Haskell in just 15 years (duckrabbit.tech)
GitHub Copilot investigation (githubcopilotinvestigation.com)
This message does not exist (kmjn.org)
Game of Trees: a version control system under development for OpenBSD (gameoftrees.org)
“Got uses Git repositories to store versioned data. At present, Got supports local version control operations only. Git can be used for any functionality which has not yet been implemented in Got. It will always remain possible to work with both Got and Git on the same repository.”
Pandoc 3.4 released (pandoc.org)
tell me of weird, obscure, or proprietary C compilers and environments past and present
C had implementations, then there was a standard, then there were more implementations. At present we have GCC and clang as the preeminent "industrial strength" compilers and presumably MSVC is somewhere in the neighborhood of normal. A little curiosity will lead you to more recently commenced proje...
Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel (marc.info)
New SI prefixes just dropped (bipm.org)
Introducing ronna- (10^27), ronto- (10^-27), quetta (10^30), and quecto (10^-30).
Skeena Indigenous Typeface (microsoft.github.io)
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator
When you first `sudo`, it says: ``` We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility. ```...
D2: Declarative Diagramming (d2lang.com)
making a website is hard (blog.cathoderaydude.com)
writing a little gosh (flak.tedunangst.com)
Contributing an mdoc reader to Pandoc (duckrabbit.tech)
Good enough ten-second sum types for Postgres (duckrabbit.tech)
SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering (subalpinecircuits.com)
shebanger: Convert a shell script into a series of shebang lines (github.com)
TESID: Textualised Encrypted Sequential Identifiers (temp.chrismorgan.info)
flags and usability (orib.dev)
Tag proposal: hacks
You know them when you see them. Sometimes they get inaptly tagged with `satire` for lack of obvious alternatives. Examples: https://lobste.rs/s/qkborx/building_doom_like_multiplayer_shooter https://lobste.rs/s/ttklux/shebanger_convert_shell_script_into https://lobste.rs/s/i6wzug/html_progra...
Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (cl.cam.ac.uk)