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para.bearblog.dev 6mo ago

The Taste of OpenBSD

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github.com 9mo ago

Ed-Mode in Emacs

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davewiner.userland.com 9mo ago

Outliners and Programming Dave Winer

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para.bearblog.dev 9mo ago

Apple Notes Is Now My Favorite Outliner

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github.com 10mo ago

Show HN: Csvqsh – SQL-like query language for CSV in Awk

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github.com 10mo ago

Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

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arraythinking.wordpress.com 1y ago

Let It Snow

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github.com 1y ago

Cross-platform line editor in APL (similar to ed)

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github.com 1y ago

Lila: A Lil Interpreter in Awk

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github.com 1y ago

Charles Hall's K Interpreter

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dariusforoux.com 1y ago

Price's Law: What It Is and Why You Should Care

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archive.vector.org.uk 1y ago

K by Arthur Whitney(2005)

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www.arraycast.com 1y ago

Episode92-Transcript

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dfns.dyalog.com 1y ago

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video]

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para.bearblog.dev 1y ago

Ordinary People Lack an Ordinary Mind

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brookeallen.com 1y ago

What I want to say to the richest kids in the world

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www.swyx.io 1y ago

Don't Rush to Simplicity

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code.jsoftware.com 2y ago

Devon McCormick

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dl.acm.org 2y ago

An Interview with Roy Sykes(1999)

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akamayu-ouo.srht.site 2y ago

Reading awc

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iiif.library.cmu.edu 2y ago

Epigrams on Programming(1982) [pdf]

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pok.acm.org 2y ago

Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]

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www.toolofthought.com 2y ago

Aversion to TDD

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www.dyalog.com 2y ago

How to Write Computer Programs (2015) [pdf]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

A Plea for Simplicity [video]

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brookeallen.com 2y ago

Karma

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para.bearblog.dev 2y ago

Using simpler tools to force simplicity

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github.com 2y ago

Plaintextaccounting_workshop

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para.bearblog.dev 2y ago

Intellectual Tribe

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I see your point, but I view it through a different lens. In painting, the mastery of 'blank space' (negative space) is as vital as the brushstrokes themselves. For a project like OpenBSD, the discipline to not implement a feature—unless it can be done perfectly and securely—is a rare form of restraint. In an industry obsessed with feature bloat, this 'lack' isn't a deficiency; it’s an aesthetic and philosophical statement.

Why use OpenBSD? 8 months ago

I tried using OpenBSD, but the support for some specific things isn't very good. For example, J language support is always missing some packages. I also don't want to, and very much do not want to, use systemd. I finally chose FreeBSD, but I'm using some things from OpenBSD as much as possible, like obhttpd, etc. It feels good now.

"I am convinced that the best possible programming environment, at least for finance, is one that is based on high-performance list processing with APL-like primitives." -atw

Aversion to TDD 2 years ago

arthur whitney "I never comment anything because I'm always trying to make it so the code itself is the comment." less code less bug.

What we need is a version system, followed by git. In my personal opinion, if you only learn one, it is git. If you want to learn two, they are git and fossil. Fossi is more suitable for individual private projects than git. He cuts down some collaboration problems, and this is a very high-quality software. As for the comparison with git, I prefer that they are a software that optimizes different scenarios.