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singaporecode··on New Lisp-Stat Release
Those charts look so clean and crisp!
singaporecode··on Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
YouTube is amazing, especially conference talks and music
singaporecode··on Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
Just look at ECL then
singaporecode··on Working in the software industry, circa 1989
Did not know that until you mentioned! Sometimes even legends post here on HN!
singaporecode··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
Man PG has jumped the shark completely. What the hell is that tweet - a deal is a deal, how can he implicitly say it should be ok for it not to be honoured (and with his twitter following, saying something publicly has an impact, however small)
singaporecode··on Hacker News was down
Very high uptime overall. Credits to PG and his lisp/arc inspired codebase! And to dang (who I assume does a bit of coding on it from time to time from previous comments I have read..sorry if I read wrong)
singaporecode··on A Scheme Primer
Love this guide!
singaporecode··on F.el: Modern API for working with files and directories in Emacs
I prefer dired mode, it’s pretty easy to get a handle of https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/introduction-to-dired-mode-9...
singaporecode··on On the use of a life (2020)
Have you seen the quality of most open source software? It’s a joke. Most of it is about people pushing their own agendas and self promoting
singaporecode··on Functional programming jargon in plain English
All these niche functional programming languages are an exercise in pseudo intellectualism

Give me an object oriented language any day. The world is made of state and processes, (modern niche) functional programming goes too far to derecognise the value of state in our mental models

The good thing about functional programming is stressing to avoid side effects in most of the code and keep it localised in certain places…

singaporecode··on Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost
Medium sucks balls. I know someone who was making $2-$5 per month and writing some high quality content, who got kicked out of the partner program for not having 100 followers (as she was more interested in the content then getting followers, but still she got a very healthy following online - just they didn’t click the “follower” button), now she’s getting zero and hasn’t blogged in ages as a result
singaporecode··on Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
ProseMirror has some of the worst developer experience possible. I wasted so much time figuring out it’s convoluted API and abandoned it soon after.

It does apparently have the best live editing / collaboration features of all text editors out there.

singaporecode··on Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
If you are using someone else’s work for free, then what’s there to complain?
singaporecode··on You and Your Research (1986)
That’s a long list!
singaporecode··on Pocket Globes: The Whole World in Your Hand
Brings back memories of my childhood (always wanted one in the late 90s)…time to get one!

There are a lot of (physical) things that have faded away since smart phones became ubiquitous, I hope they make a come back and we move to a slower pace again

singaporecode··on Why Emacs has buffers
Although I’d argue that it isn’t necessary for all those functions to be part of the buffer object themselves - they could receive the relevant details vi dynamic extent and not burden the user with an API that requires passing in an Editor State object (which is the key benefit of Emacs - I just don’t see how this is related to the naming of buffers).
singaporecode··on Why Emacs has buffers
I think of it more as dynamic extent but don’t want to be splitting hairs.

Not that I don’t love how Emacs does it, but I just think it’s not that closely correlated to the notion of what is a buffer as the header of the article implied

singaporecode··on Why Emacs has buffers
A pretty bad article to be honest, just creating confusion.

Emacs buffers are not the reason why functions like forward-paragraph exists.

That’s just normal abstraction (in programming).

singaporecode··on Why Emacs has buffers
That is so cool!