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dwdzon Python string literals are kinda funny

I'm not a fan of f-strings.

I feel like 90% of new Python features in the last 10 years just increased language complexity without any benefit.

dwdzon My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

The sole reason for that rewrite was Zig creator announcing he won't be accepting AI contributions. It hurt Anthropic's feelings.

dwdzon Rewriting Bun in Rust

"The blog post is expertly written. It's almost like the marketing department of a trillion dollar company has a lot of money riding on this article."

-- Andrew Kelley

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.ht...

dwdzon The and Wonderful Evolution of the Waterproof Jacket

I don't think it was written by AI but rather edited with help of AI. There are just a few obvious AI lines in the text. Not great, not terrible but it immediately caught my eye.

dwdzon Coursera and Udemy are now one company

Competition is for losers.

dwdzon What are skiplists good for?

It seems like Qt went from red-black tree to skip list in Qt4 and back to red-black tree in Qt5.

dwdzon C Is Best (2025)

Should be:

    ul.threadlist li.origin a {
      display: block;
      background: rgb(205, 216, 216);
      font-weight: normal;
      padding: 1px 6px;
      margin: 1px -6px;
    }

dwdzon Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read

    LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
    LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=

dwdzon Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read

The script works just fine on real Linux, it creates 2048 files and ls command lists them all with different names.

    ls -l win32/
    total 0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\277\237''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\267\213''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\240\220''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\274\273''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\251\205''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\255\223''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\272\257''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\264\207''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\261\246''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\254\266''.exe'
    ...

dwdzon The Ribbon Microphone

All lowercase text is so hard to read.

dwdzon Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)

50-60 years old, according to Rick Beato

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rx08qWtFak

dwdzon Benchmarking Malloc with Doom 3

Please don't use Jet color scheme. Matplotlib uses excellent viridis by default. There's no reason not to use it. [0][1]

[0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/223315/why-use-col...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

dwdzon Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Are we still getting excited about new smartphones? What year is it? 2012?

dwdzon Typing, RSI, and what I do differently

I'm using this[1] and I love it. Adding 1 column of spacing between two hands is real game changer. I've tried Colemak and Workman before but I found qwerty-wide to be more comfortable than both of them. It's also much easier to learn, especially if you're Vim user.

[1] https://www.keyboard-design.com/letterlayout.html?layout=qwe...

dwdzon Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager

The webpage doesn't load with JS disabled, and when you enable it, it just displays a bunch of text and some hyperlinks. This is beyond ridiculous.

dwdzon OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006)

1. No borrow checker

2. Compilation times

dwdzon Test Anything Protocol

I prefer Cram [1] or mdx[2]

[1] https://pypi.org/project/cram/

[2] https://github.com/realworldocaml/mdx

dwdzon Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

Push to Kindle [1]. There are extensions for both Chrome and Firefox.