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rlopezccon Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust

I love these things. I made my resume page by piping together two small rust pograms and a bash script to get a single html, from a json in firebase, a handlebars template and several static assets.

rlopezccon QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64

QBasic was my first programming experience.

Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn't boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.

It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.

I didn't have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE

Now I've been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.

rlopezccon Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

I was really disappointed when noticed they didn't have a way to report bugs. They had some kind of "Suggestions box", so I used that to report mine: Images wouldn't upload correctly when the chat room name started wih a slash (/dev/null in my case). They deleted the ticket and a few days later it was magically fixed.

You will find pretty annoyed people if you search for "report hipchat bug".

rlopezccon Show HN: 2D Isometric Editor

That's really nice. And reminds me about this thing[0] I made when Firefox 3D view was available.

[0] https://github.com/rlopezcc/hexadom Edit: Formatting.

rlopezccon Cuba first to eliminate mother-to-baby HIV transmission

"acts of protest" Yeah... sure...

rlopezccon Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them

This is my exact thought every freaking day while cycling to the office.