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eric-p7··on Deno Desktop
Deno Desktop is bundling the V8 JavaScript runtime so it can have JavaScript on the backend. Tauri uses rust for the backend and your browser's JavaScript engine for the frontend.
eric-p7··on Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
Imagine paying a subscription for your task bar.
eric-p7··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Just put the default settings in the same place other apps put their settings. With an option for a custom path so I can sync it between my devices via syncthing.
eric-p7··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
I wish I could use Obsidian to edit single markdown files.

If my project has a readme.md I don't want to create an obsidian vault with its configuration files in my project, just to open it.

eric-p7··on Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
Why is it 2026 and I still can't apt install deno?
eric-p7··on Show HN: Dr. Ralph – Medical Diagnostics Plugin Using Claude Code's Ralph Wiggum
I'm interested in hearing about successes and failures of using this.
eric-p7··on FracturedJson
Reminds me of Lite3 that was posted here not long ago:

https://github.com/fastserial/lite3

eric-p7··on I know you didn't write this
"Chat, expand these 3 points into 10 pages."

Later, at someone else's desk:

"Chat, summarize these 10 pages into 3 points."

eric-p7··on Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format
This needs more attention than it's getting. Perhaps if you made some changes to the landing pages could help?

"outperforms the fastest JSON libraries (that make use of SIMD) by up to 120x depending on the benchmark. It also outperforms schema-only formats, such as Google Flatbuffers (242x). Lite³ is possibly the fastest schemaless data format in the world."

^ This should be a bar graph at the top of the page that shows both serializing sizes and speeds.

It would also be nice to see a json representation on the left and a color coded string of bytes on the right that shows how the data is packed.

Then the explanation follows.

eric-p7··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I'm working Solarite, a library for doing minimal DOM updates on web components when the data changes. And other nice features like nested styles and passing constructor arguments to sub-components via attributes.

https://github.com/Vorticode/solarite

eric-p7··on JSDoc is TypeScript
I've built Solarite, a library that's made vanilla web components a lot more productive IMHO. It allows minimal DOM updates when the data changes. And other nice features like nested styles and passing constructor arguments to sub-components via attributes.

https://github.com/Vorticode/solarite

eric-p7··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
Genes and species are also sometimes given ridiculous names.
eric-p7··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
If you tediously work out the LLM math by hand, is the pen and paper conscious too?

Consciousness is not computation. You need something else.

eric-p7··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
There are no properties of matter or energy that can have a sense of self or experience qualia. Yet we all do. Denying the hard problem of consciousness just slows down our progress in discovering what it is.
eric-p7··on FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
Yes yes very impressive.

But can it still turn my screen orange?

eric-p7··on Do not accept terms and conditions
That means you won the game.
eric-p7··on JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
"has no dependencies, and uses only standard features of JavaScript so it works in any JS environment."

Then I see a Node style import and npm. When did Node/NPM stop being dependencies and become standardized by JavaScript? Where's my raw es6 module?

eric-p7··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
No, that's correct. I did it that way deliberately as a design choice.

Is that not still considered reactivity? If so then I'll update the docs.

eric-p7··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
This seems like a good place to plug my library, Solarite.

It's a minimal, compilation-free JavaScript library that adds reactivity to native web components, as well as scoped styles and a few other ease-of-life features.

https://vorticode.github.io/solarite/

eric-p7··on Matrix.org service offline: corrupted database
Can we have a federated service that's resilient against outages such as this, where Element would automatically use another server with my same account?

Perhaps the network of servers could even have some redundancy for the last two weeks history of chat messages, minus images.

eric-p7··on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
We can't call it robots.txt?
eric-p7··on D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
Not to be confused with The D Programming Language, which has a similar domain (dlang.org), and is currently on version 2.
eric-p7··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
> That's what makes Carbon different from any other language: D, Zig, Nim, Rust etc.

I know you can compile C++ files to object files, pass them to the D compiler, and have them call eachothers' functions. I've never tried it though.

--------

g++ -c foo.cpp

dmd bar.d foo.o -L-lstdc++

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https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html

eric-p7··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
I've been working on a minimal, compilation-free JavaScript library that adds reactivity to native web components, as well as scoped styles and a few other ease-of-life features.

Solarite.js: https://vorticode.github.io/solarite/

eric-p7··on Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)
I haven't tried it, but it should work so long as you don't use htmx to replace the parts of the components being modified by the reactivity.
eric-p7··on Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)
This seems like a good place to plug my own lightweight, compilation-free library that adds reactivity and local styles to native web components:

https://vorticode.github.io/solarite

eric-p7··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
I immediately scrolled to the bottom of the HN comments so I could find a comment like this to upvote.
eric-p7··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
Isn't the X ranking algorithm open source? Does it have hardcoded keywords or how does this censoring work?
eric-p7··on Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers
Why can't this just be an embeddable subset of some other well-known language instead of a brand new language?

I've learned two dozen programming languages. I'm so tired.

eric-p7··on Features of D That I Love
It's a mystery why D isn't far more popular than it is. Fast compilation, familiar syntax, and supports a wider range of programming paradigms than most (any?) other language.
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