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secwang··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
unix passstore is perfect
secwang··on The Taste of OpenBSD
I see your point, but I view it through a different lens. In painting, the mastery of 'blank space' (negative space) is as vital as the brushstrokes themselves. For a project like OpenBSD, the discipline to not implement a feature—unless it can be done perfectly and securely—is a rare form of restraint. In an industry obsessed with feature bloat, this 'lack' isn't a deficiency; it’s an aesthetic and philosophical statement.
secwang··on Why use OpenBSD?
I tried using OpenBSD, but the support for some specific things isn't very good. For example, J language support is always missing some packages. I also don't want to, and very much do not want to, use systemd. I finally chose FreeBSD, but I'm using some things from OpenBSD as much as possible, like obhttpd, etc. It feels good now.
secwang··on Which table format do LLMs understand best?
maybe be org table
secwang··on My Ed(1) Toolbox
Aaron have a crossplatform ed in Apl.This is great when you familiar with apl.
secwang··on My Ed(1) Toolbox
love it.
secwang··on Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
I like your way , So I pick up my long time not used emacs. It's work fine.
secwang··on KX Community Edition
klongpy
secwang··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
just use txt / html / numbers/excel / files. All will lasted next 20 years.
secwang··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
just use txt.
secwang··on K by Arthur Whitney(2005)
"I am convinced that the best possible programming environment, at least for finance, is one that is based on high-performance list processing with APL-like primitives." -atw
secwang··on Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
csv
secwang··on Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
How to compile these codes under clang15?
secwang··on Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file?
convert to csv, Next is simple text processing.Final ,convert csv to excel
secwang··on Aversion to TDD
arthur whitney "I never comment anything because I'm always trying to make it so the code itself is the comment." less code less bug.
secwang··on The File Filesystem (2021)
remind me of djb's envdir
secwang··on Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
It's great.
secwang··on Sparkey: A simple constant key/value storage library
glad they mentioned cdb.
secwang··on Cold-blooded software
c , Common Lisp , apl All of these have a solid history of backward compatibility.
secwang··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
It's perfect. I've been using bbedit's scratchpad for this. This is a perfect alternative.
secwang··on Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016)
As for struggling with why there is such a judgment, you can try it yourself for up to one hour. I was shocked by the diff quality of fossil. All linguistic debates cannot replace the experience of the century.
secwang··on Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016)
What we need is a version system, followed by git. In my personal opinion, if you only learn one, it is git. If you want to learn two, they are git and fossil. Fossi is more suitable for individual private projects than git. He cuts down some collaboration problems, and this is a very high-quality software. As for the comparison with git, I prefer that they are a software that optimizes different scenarios.
secwang··on Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
yes, thank you.But light and self Hosted version control,I have to recommand fossil.Git is not gods,we can blame it and recommand other more better software for special case.
secwang··on Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
Fossil is better for small project
secwang··on Ask HN: Free and open source distributed database written in C++ or C
ydb yhttps://github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
secwang··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
kdb+. It may be a little over-marketing, but it's really elegant. voodoopad.
secwang··on This project won China 2014 State Science and Technology Prize
shameful.