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kotborealison Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro

Record & replay sounds really nice, but the actual reverse-debugging is broken, see https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2634

kotborealison When "letting it crash" is not enough

There's also an implementation of time-traveling debugging in Qenu[0], which sounds really nice but does not actually work reliably on larger use-cases.

[0] https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/d/d0/02x06b-DeterministicRe...

kotborealison Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces

It's not fun to manually reformat those tables for readability. If I add something to the `second row, second column`, I have to add extra spaces to the `first row, second column`, or it will look janky.

  | first row, first column  | first row, second column  | first row, third column  |
  | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------------ |
  | second row, first column | exceptionally long second row, that makes second column look worse | second row, third column |

kotborealison Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD

"Don't ask me about it License" looks a bit shorter[0].

0: https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/blob/master/dont...

kotborealison ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style

Some Google python-based projects, like oss-fuzz, are still indented with 2 spaces, which is a huge pain.

kotborealison Ask HN: What's on your home server?

An old laptop (i3-380M, 4gb RAM, 150gb SSD + 1tb HDD), currently running:

    * syncthing, as a backup host;
    * photoprism, had to migrate from google photos;
    * docker registry for pet projects;
    * qbittorrent, which is mainly unused nowdays;
    * pihole;
    * homeassistant;
    * mosquitto;
    * vscode code-server.

On top of that, there's tailscale, nginx proxy manager and dirt-cheap VPS for exposing some services to the internet.

kotborealison Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

Yes, it's http://sdf.org

kotborealison Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

Some hotkeys overlap, but it's still a great experience.

kotborealison Building software to last forever

In the blog post author states that he's planning on forming some organization for Bear, so this could help.

kotborealison Let's Encrypt issues its 3Bth cert

I'm just glad that Let's Encrypt exists and simply works: never had any problems with certs for my pet projects.

kotborealison Nabla – Isometric Color Font

It's actually a native color picker

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

kotborealison Take Advantage of Git Rebase

Some code review systems, like gerrit, actually encourage this workflow: you can easily view diffs between commit versions ('patchsets').

kotborealison The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)

In Russian, it's usually called `dog`. No idea why.

kotborealison Pledge() and unveil() in SerenityOS (2020)

`pledge` is from OpenBSD, as suggested by the article, and it also implements it using string-based interface (https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2)

I think, the main point is to make it as easy as possible to use.

kotborealison Show HN: Common Lisp running natively over WebAssembly for the first time

Great work! A small nitpick — the page is a bit hard to read, links have low contrast, you can check it using accessibility tools.