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anta40··on I Quit Editing Photos
"Shoot and scan" is convenient. Hard to argue with it. But hey, if you want convenience, why are still using film?

:D

But anyway, yes print making is both art and science on its own. Finding local labs to develop and scan films is pretty easy. But darkroom to print your photos the old school way? Happy to find a new one (I'm on Jakarta, btw).

anta40··on I quit editing photos
Whatever floats the boat.

Even back to film/analog era, taking a photo is just the 1st step. Then apply some darkroom work (dodge/burn/use some filters to adjust the highlight/shadow etc etc). Image editing softwares like Photoshop simplify the process.

I mostly shoot in black & white (both film and digital). Since once of my biggest inspirations is Ansel Adams, then no I don't adhere to "SOOC" (straight out of camera) philosophy. Fine tuning in Photoshop is a must.

anta40··on Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
Yes, I'm happy with Zed a Sublime replacement, usually for general text-editing.

For coding, I'm still stuck with VSCode and nvim.

anta40··on Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language
So.... a sort of modern Corewar?
anta40··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Wezterms is certainly nice. I guess they haven't release another update? Currently stick to iTerm2.
anta40··on Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution
I thought this has something to do with this book:

https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/forallxyyc-accessible.p...

anta40··on DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
Ah good old dial up days in early 2000s. Browsing means the phone cannot be used for calling.

:)

anta40··on JWasm: Masm Compatible Assembler
A few years ago, I think JWasm development halted, and eventually came 2 forks:

- https://github.com/nidud/asmc

- https://github.com/Terraspace/UASM

Now seems like JWasm is under development again.

anta40··on Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
Yes it's cool. I wonder if other terminal emulator apps like WezTerm, iTerm etc also has this feature?
anta40··on Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
If you want to use Grub, this tutorial works (see "Booting the kernel"):

https://wiki.osdev.org/Zig_Bare_Bones

Yes, just tried it.

anta40··on Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
Both tutorials work fine on latest stable zig (0.15.2)
anta40··on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Few months ago I learnt there's Edie Brickell's Good Times video on Win 95 CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okt9GcWiWmE

There's also Weezer? Whoa. Of course I did experience Win 95. My 1st PC (96/97 ??) came with it. Never bother to mess with the instalation CD, though.

anta40··on MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk
It's just the user apps and the drivers. No kernel/core OS codes, though.
anta40··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
For some unknown reasons, the PDF page: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S9005

stuck on loading (tested on both latest Firefox and Chrome on macOS). I'm on Indonesia, BTW. Could someone upload the PDF?

anta40··on JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
I used the Pro version a few years ago. Now it's delisted from Play Store? Couldn't find it.
anta40··on Can you slim macOS down?
As a mobile app dev, I'm forced to use macOS: no iOS SDK on Windows/Linux/etc

I'd love to know what's good ARM notebook which works fine with Linux.

anta40··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Ah, forgot about it. Perhaps a yes, considering lots of photographers and video editors work on Mac.
anta40··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
I'm pretty sure Apple is unavoidable if you work as a mobile app developer. I mean, no iOS SDK for Windows/Linux.

If your work area is anything other than it, perhaps the Mac isn't necessary.

anta40··on Are we tired of social media? (2025)
As a photography enthusiasts, I still regularly post photos to it. It's also one of my source of inspiration.

Fair enough, unlike the others, (almost) no photos of my daily life.

anta40··on The PGP problem (2019)
I'm curious. What's the advantage of using signify/minisign instead of good old PGP/GPG?
anta40··on Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder
“we won’t touch Mamiyas”

Why? Is the mechanism that complicated? I'm pretty sure medium format SLR like Hasselblad or Rollei SL66 is more... ummm complex.

anta40··on Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder
Fuji GM670/GL690 are also nice if you prefer interchangebale lens GM670 in general is reasonably priced compared to Mamiya 7/GF670
anta40··on Java Decompiler
What about Android? Hmm....
anta40··on Build a Compiler in Five Projects
I heard that new volume is updated with newer stuffs like data flow analysis, garbage collection, etc. Anyway the book doesn't teach you how to build a basic working compiler, so need to consult another materials.

Try Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler implementation in Java/C/ML" or Writing a C Compiler (https://norasandler.com/book) which is much more recent.

Eventually, you'd want to hack GCC/LLVM because they are production-grade compilers.

anta40··on Build a Compiler in Five Projects
Any recommendation for a more realistic book?

I think hacking GCC/LLVM can be pretty challenging, but hey they are real, production-grade compilers and not just typical academic projects.

anta40··on What Killed Perl?
I think PHP in general is still popular... even though some of the devs switch to Go...
anta40··on CornHub
A bunch of corn videos... well what else? :D
anta40··on Open-source Zig book
Hmmm what about this: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

Convincing enough?

anta40··on Meta Replaced the Native WhatsApp for Windows 11 with a Shitty Web App
So what do Android users on that area use, then? Telegram? Signal? FB Messenger?
anta40··on Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
For typical end users, kernel on its own is useless. So this an example of OS which uses Ironclad kernel:

https://codeberg.org/Ironclad/Gloire

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