chillpenguin

I basically feel the same way. In a way it is very liberating. All of those esoteric languages that were on my ever-growing todo list are now things I can let go of. Ultimately we have to ask ourselves how we want to spend our time, and now it is much harder to justify spending countless hours studying one programming language after another. We still can, of course, but we are now more "free" to do other things instead.

It's sort of sad, but really I think it is a weight off my shoulders.

I'm glad to find out it's not just me! My homelab has a lot of domains on .home.arpa, and I was getting issues related to this.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. What keeps me on mac, however, is the hardware seems so much better than the alternatives. I'd love a macbook quality linux laptop.

Smalltalk was the lisp machine of the future. Of course, now even Smalltalk is a thing of the past.

Why are all of the comments about the name? The author literally said this is a toy project for educational purposes... There are thousands of projects on github. This isn't even the only other project named "vanta" on github (I just checked and there is an animation library for javascript called vanta). So, seriously, who cares?

If OP was an actual company, that would be different. But this is quite literally a toy project.

Anyway, congrats OP! Your project looks really cool.

This article is insulting. It is trying to paint the picture that all of us who go against the mainstream are deluding ourselves if we think it is anything more than the digital equivalent of wearing a leather jacket.

Very often mainstream stuff really is actually worse than obscure stuff. I don't have to explain this to the HN crowd, I'm sure.

The article is pretentious (which is ironic since it is arguing for adopting mainstream technology).

The fact that this exists shows that there is a serious problem in the python ecosystem. I'm sure it solves a real problem, so I'm not knocking the author. It's more of a "state of our industry" problem.

shoutout to Mithril! Has always been an under-appreciated gem.

From the abstract: "Evidence links lifestyle factors with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We report the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to determine if intensive lifestyle changes may beneficially affect the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia due to AD."

I took that as hyperbole. Hard to tell how intentional it was, whether it was a joke or not... But yeah, obviously it is not true at all.

Smalltalk, by far, is the best in this category.

Here is a whole course, with videos and links to slides and readings.

https://github.com/margaretstorey/EmseUvic2020

I agree. I once attempted this on a javascript project (a personal project, not at work), after reading about APL/J/K people and their philosophy. My constraint was: I should never have to scroll. I also aimed to have as few files as possible.

The result was surprisingly pleasant, and it changed how I feel about this sort of thing. I think the Clean Code approach makes a lot of sense when you are working on a big project that contains lots of code that other people wrote, and you rely on IDE features like jumping to definition, etc. But if you can write code that fits on one screen without scrolling, something special happens. It's like all the negative aspects of terse code suddenly vanish and you get something way simpler and overall easier to work with and understand. But you really have to work to get it to that point. A middle ground (terse code but still spread out over lots of files, lots of scrolling) would be the worst of both worlds.

"john ousterhout's book is the only book on how to write software that has any actual evidence behind it."

This is false and hopefully no one takes you seriously when they read that. There are books about empirical methods for software engineering, for example, which actually seek to find real evidence for software engineering techniques. See Greg Wilson's work, for example.

There are lots of other architecture/design books that use real world systems as examples. "Evidence" is definitely lacking in our field, but you can find it if you try.

There are also studies showing a plant-based diet can reverse Alzheimer's symptoms as well. It has to do with atherosclerosis.

I see that kind of thing all the time. Usually it is about static types. People think that dynamic languages aren't "serious", or something. It is laughable that these people still make up a significant amount of comments, here in 2024.

It's true. Streaming services are really a downgrade in this respect. I don't get why they don't include the same sort of bonus content that DVDs had.

This is how I interpreted it as well. The others seem to be arguing due to a misunderstanding of what was said/meant.

There's something about it where it doesn't feel quite right when using the mouse as a GUI app. Compare it to something like Sublime Text. I can't quite describe it exactly. It just feels off. It feels like you are supposed to use the keyboard shortcuts to navigate around, and the mouse is sort of bolted on secondarily or something. So I would try to make it feel more like a modern GUI app, where using the mouse feels right.

It's a valid concern. But I just want to point out that shelling out to other things is part of the "paradigm" when using a shell-like language. If you embrace this paradigm, you will better understand the style.

Think of it like learning functional programming. You have to "embrace the paradigm" instead of just mutating things all the time like you might be used to in an imperative language.

I'm surprised that old printers like that go for $80-120 USD. I'm pretty sure you can buy a new inkjet for $50.

If I wanted to do something similar, what is the cheapest type of printers I should be looking at? Dot matrix does seem awesome for the vibes, but I could be happy with something else as well. Any recommendations? I do like the idea of buying something old.

I agree. I will mock 3rd party APIs sometimes so I can test that my system correctly handles failures. For example, what if I get a 500 response from the API? With my mock I can easily make that happen. If I was using the actual API, I would have no way of forcing a 500 to happen.

Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project. The IT industry collectively went, "meh."

I have tried to look into this before, and I never can find much information about it. Last I checked, her homepage was basically trying to sell some proprietary system to customers who have bought into her marketing about "bug-free software". But actually trying to figure out how it works, or how to do it oneself, has remained elusive. Saying "The IT industry collectively went, 'meh.'" is kind of misleading. It's not exactly clear _what_ she worked out, but I'm skeptical of the claim that she "worked out how to write bug-free software". And if she did, she isn't exactly shouting from the rooftops about how to do it.

I had lexical highlighting in javascript for a while, but IIRC I stopped using it because the plugin didn't play well with JSX.

To be honest it wasn't that big of a deal. Definitely not a game changer. Although I like that people are at least considering these things. Most people I showed the lexical highlighter to couldn't imagine not having syntax highlighting (which is silly, you get used to it quickly).

romhacking. I want to make patches to old console games from the late 80s and early 90s. I've never really worked with binary data before, so I have had to learn some new things.

I've been following this project for a few years now. Always thought it was a great idea.

Solid suggestions, thanks.

You are right, I haven't studied topology at all. I have heard the word before, but I don't know what it is. I'll look into it, thanks!

Very cool, thanks for the suggestion!

+1 for Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger. It was eye-opening for me because it really made me understand the unix philosophy of composing programs out of smaller programs.