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Years ago I had hoped Voxatron and voxel-ish games inspired by it would have taken off more. I wonder why it hasn't saturated the indie game scene more.

"command line"

A lot of folks are building “git for agents”.

Oak, recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

Former GitHub CEO’s new company Entire: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-github-ceos-startup-ent...

This is the best article I’ve read this year. There’s so much truth in this.

There was some interesting discussion which data structure to use for Rhombus: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/discussions/221

You can read about Shrubbery, just adding the Rhombus syntax in Racket:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/shrubbery/index.html

I want to see Dang’s list of fav classics :)

Writing a Lisp is one of my favorite projects. I try to do it every year or two, taking a different approach each time.

This article was not written by AI.

:(

Search doesn’t seem to work.

Are the 14,078 share events from unique users? If not, the usage rate would be even lower (<0.21% of users share but sometimes share multiple times).

Blogs are free/cheap to host, not necessarily free/cheap to produce, and they might have a huge impact on the reader. I am happy to support my favorite content creators in a small way.

My agent checks my session logs to look for things that I should automate. I blogged about how I got there: https://austinhenley.com/blog/automatingmyjob.html Maybe I'll share some of the skills.

Good thing I’m actively writing a programming book!

(Reading HN to procrastinate.)

We used to call this “concept count”. You usually want to minimize the number of core concepts that make up your product. I’ve also heard it as the “nouns and verbs” of a product.

I wish there was a writeup about the emulator. I did find the documentation for the language: https://spectre-docs.pages.dev

Over 900 commits and 400k loc to Spectre in less than 3 weeks has me thinking this is all AI.

I spoke with a bunch of profs about how they were assessing students in the age of AI:

https://austinhenley.com/blog/aihomework.html

Reminds me of Paper Website from the Tiny Projects series, discussed back in 2021.

https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550812

It was started 7 years ago.

I was trying to compare the two. At first glance, MonoGame has far more stars and recent commits. Or is it just in maintenance mode?

It was a convention to denote a variation or version. Not sure how the trend started though.

A few of my games from 2009 are on here! Very cool.

You deduct the expenses you paid, not the income you hoped to earn.

we use 256-bit integers in our hot paths and go up to 564 bits for certain edge cases.

Why 564 bits? That’s 70.5 bytes.

Several years ago, I did write that every programmer should attempt to write a browser: https://austinhenley.com/blog/morechallengingprojects.html

:)

Dang gave some explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

Edit: HN's auto-resubmit in action, ignore.

The two most popular discussions of this fantastic book:

2020 with 777 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738

2024 with 607 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950235

https://austinhenley.com

A recent post about using Gleam for Advent of Code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991