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My two best points of advice is:

Go to meetups/hackathons

Threads the app, reply to coders on posts you find interesting and have things to add to.

Relevant critique of this article. I should probably have elaborated more on WHY one should dare to do that and HOW you can that in a respectful and mutual way.

How to increase the signal and not the noise.

Sending an email without any clear purpose is not something I would encourge. But a highly thoughtful email about some of their works or question you have about a recent piece of code is probably appreciated. Genuine conversation.

The easiest way to start your journey towards overcoming the imposter syndrome while not burdening someone is to reply to a recent tweet.

If you have something relevant to say that is. But you probably do: more often than not.

I would certainly read that reply or even better the book!

That’s actually what I asked Mike Pall to do regarding JIT. He was reluctany and probably thinks too little of his teaching ability.. but that book would be awesome for future generations of compiler folks to read!

Back to Bellard, maybe a good first approach is to ping one of his co-authors like the person he made QuickJS with.

Would probably sth memoreable and positive for him :)

I doubt he’ll get more than a handful.

Very much this. Especially Daniel Stenberg or for Sweden more locally famous coders like Christian Landgren are very approachable on LinkedIn.

Makes for an intresting conversation and you can learn a lot by posting a well thought comment :)

Yeah, GitHub stars is becoming a vanity metric and not indication of quality.

I have been contemplating a rating system for open source software with a mandatory tag for each star. Allows you to filter out perspectives you don’t care about.

Author here.

Actually wrote the draft on this in January but last week finally got enough time to complete this with proper project links etc.

We are certainly real people, except for one of the faces on our /support page who’s signature we use when replying to particularly aggressive fraudsters (to avoid feeling personally offended).

The service might look easy on the surface, but getting all required infrastructure in place here in Europe is hard and the telecom world is surprisingly complex.

”I am jealous at you guys: backend services still has a future” a coder friend told me today at lunch.

On topic, I obviously don’t think the community train has passed.

Especially on meetups I see a lot of genuine connections between programmers being made. Threads, the app, has recently been the most relevant place for me to casually chat with other programmers.

I don’t vouch for people to spam: but to overcome their imposter syndrome and dare to talk about coding with fellow programmers. Even the legends.

And they often invite for conversations: wether it’s a comment field, pull request or tweet.

Indeed! Got any advice for people who want to go for it and write their first tweet or email?

Yeah, it’s not about spamming people but overcoming the imposter syndrome.

Learning to find this balance of not being annoying is probably easiest by trying to make relevant comments on someones tweet. And the response back will give you an energy boost! :)

These people are much more approachable than people generally believe.

Yep, the biggest blocker for a good conversation is people simply not writing an email or trying to make that call.

Which is why I wrote this.

Is the same at conferences: one of the best things you can do is to fo and talk to the person holding the lecture. They usually appreciate it very much.

You don’t need to be famous to do that.

I wrote an email to Mike Pall once and got a very refreshing reply.

Daniel Stenberg is not on the list but he is also a very active programmer on social media like LinkedIn that you can interact with.

It is hard today to grasp what Fidonet really was. But for me and many others it was such a life changing thing.

Do you know of any good articles, books or blog post written for outsiders to read?

I have an Apple aluminum keyboard in my backpack all the time.

Very nice for note taking during meetings or emailing on train trips.

Or my favorite: writing outdoors.

The stress relief of a plain old Linux terminal should not be underestimated.

Not only for writing, but for shell sessions too.

I love my Raspberry Pi for that.

Been following this for so many years. The previous project lead Michael Pripps (?) was really inspiring.

It is amazing the project keeps going.

The problem with that hub is that it is not being updated.

I guess the founded had trouble coping with the big attention it got and was swamped with submissions.

I am so happy email is not dead.

We need more playing fields and protocols new players can enter with being blocked by a gatekeeper.

One could argue Google and Microsoft are gatekeepes for email and in some sense they are. But at least it’s possible to challenge their power both technically and policy wise. Eventually it will fade.

We see a lot of new users coming from Twilio.

For some reason the LLMs have started recommending us for people looking for a European or Swedish alternative.

Good catch in the noise. Thanks!

With Chris Lattners track record, there is little reason to doubt they actually will open source this.

Miguels work on Swift for Godot is really inspiring.

Highly recommend this video for anyone looking for more context:

https://youtu.be/tzt36EGKEZo

We have always been API first rather than SDK first.

Never really thought too much about the security implications but that is of course a benefit too.

Main reasoning for us has been to aim for a really nice HTTP API rather than hide uglyness with an SDK on top.

This is an intresting take and the ”tooling” around pure llm-based code generation is what really matters.

AFAIK Replit and Claude code has way to reduce the rate of these kind of errors, but I havn’t deep dived into how.

Interesting project!

Two problems for me:

- I want my iPhone terminal to be built for use w/ external keyboard.

- While I really like pay-once a use-often app like a terminal you really want to try before you buy. But maybe Apples general refund-if-not-satisfied is still a thing and enough?

Yes, such a good game! :)

Gonna warm that up when the kids get a bit older and we start doing LAN parties.

That and Quake World Team Fortress.

Try XFS if you havn’t yet.

Very solid and no such issues.

Agreed!

It easy to forget we all started fresh and learned a lot the first few years.

On topic, this project looks nice but a bit too featureful for my minimalistic taste.

Neat concept and very inspirational.

Is ascii/unicode text UI the way to go here or is there other UI formats even more suited for LLMs?

Bellard is such an inspiring programmer! A few of my favorites out of his works are:

- qemu user mode

- tcc

- ts_zip

Looking forward to giving this a try, especially on my first gen Raspberry Pi! :)

What are the reasons behind going with GPL-2 instead of a more permissive license like MIT or 0BSD?

You will probably at minimum build some neat helper functions and maximum code reuse is IMHO the best thing for the world.

I would for instance be curious on the ANSI routines but hesitate to invest mental energy when the code has limitations on usage.

Lastly cool to see new open source programs being built with heavy help from a code generation model. Inspiring!