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Stories by zdsmith

The Dark Path, or, What if I Don't Want to Quit My Job? (blog.zdsmith.com)
Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker (blog.zdsmith.com)
Elixir v1.8 released (elixir-lang.org)
"It's fun to program in Crystal, but is it scalable?" (github.com)
Some context from @gecko, as folks are not sure what this is all about: > Crystal is strongly typed, but *overwhelmingly* uses type inference, rather than explicit types. Because Crystal aims to be spiritually—and frequently literally—compatible with Ruby, that’s a problem: to accomplish that, Cr...
A little toy: generate random LaTeX nonsense on every page load (urquh.zdsmith.com)
JNJ: J bindings for Janet (git.sr.ht)
Sketches of Elixir (blog.zdsmith.com)
Combinatory Programming (blog.zdsmith.com)
bagatto: An extensible, transparent static site generator (sr.ht)
Imp: intro (scattered-thoughts.net)
A Specification of a Note-Taking Program (blog.zdsmith.com)
A Practical Theory Of Programming (cs.toronto.edu)
Two Bites of Data Science in K (blog.zdsmith.com)
creativity (blog.zdsmith.com)
Pantagruel v0.5.1 (github.com)
An informal tutorial on Joy (hypercubed.github.io)
Z notation (formalmethods.wikia.com)
Guy Debord’s Game Of War (cabinetmagazine.org)
TLDR: Revolutionary left-communist French philosopher Guy Debord also designed and published (what we would now call) a wargame. The author of this article produced a full playable computer version, but it’s been unavailable for some time.
Compile-Time Sort in Nim (blog.zdsmith.com)
Getting Started With Bagatto (bagatto.co)
RECYCLE Card Game description language (cardstock.readthedocs.io)
Pantagruel: An Unambiguous, Undefined Program Specification Language (hexdocs.pm)
To Kill a Centrifuge (langner.com)
Making ReelValley, a web game written in Nim (yglukhov.github.io)
Languages well-suited for remote working
@logc said in response to [this thread](https://lobste.rs/s/oghe8x/languages_for_remote_working): > When I read the title I thought you were looking for languages that were designed for remote work, but on opening the question I saw you are looking for languages that are in demand for remote wor...
Pointer free programming and the future of Nim (nim-lang.org)
Bolin Programming Language (bolinlang.com)
Extempore (extemporelang.github.io)
Understanding Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (slackermanz.com)
flenser: a simple, minimal, automated exploratory data analysis tool (github.com)