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What are the reasons why PyPy hasn't caught on? I know about PyPy for ages, but I still haven't given it a try, I still feel the aftertaste of anaconda...

srotton A Look at Rust from 2012

> rest of the post is me trying to make sense of the tutorial on borrowing. It has fried my brain and negatively affected my skills in modern Rust, so be wary

I think that tutorial discouraged me from really getting into Rust

srotton .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

What is the future for MAUI, anything changed in last months?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnetMAUI/comments/1l1xiib/entire_...

srotton Abstract Syntax Tree: An Example in C

Oh no, such elegant and sweet c style util you ruined it at the end!

srotton Servo v0.0.1

I wish I had a RSS reader to feed this to...

srotton Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

git commit -> git gui

srotton Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

Only way I know to remove a file from a commit is by using git commit.

I’m also most comfortable with gitk when reviewing branches

srotton Elvish – Powerful scripting language and versatile interactive shell

Elvish was a bit slow to me, nush is nice but I found out I can do most of the tasks using yq and jc more intuitively.

srotton I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)

the building seems to have 4 floors only

https://www.google.com/maps/place/51+Franklin+St,+Boston,+MA...

srotton A 10x Faster TypeScript

Funny, until now I always thought that TypeScript is JavaScript with some C# vibes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320086

srotton Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

Only seen on some minor embeded systems but it’s not a big deal to compile gdb with tui support enabled.

srotton The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

They had to develop Figmas precursor in order to make that video.

srotton GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

Yes, but Image magick offers more useful features, I prefer it if safety is not a concern.

http://im.snibgo.com/srchimgag.htm

srotton Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

The “go” yq

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

| yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

srotton Why Bridges Don't Sink

Some of them wont sink because they float...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordhordland_Bridge

srotton macOS Sequoia Preview

I wish they’d have an LTS version, I’m in constant fear of what will go wrong next…

srotton Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not

libvorbis/ogg as a vim dependency, interesting

srotton Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild

It won’t fit into rpi 400?

srotton Atari Falcon030

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features

srotton Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever

Double sided tape trapped whole families :)

srotton The Sinusoidal Tetris

tested, meta is not enough

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum scale=1.0, user-scalable=0">

    <style> 
    body {
      touch-action: none;
    }
    <style>

srotton Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars

I agree, with my kids I rarely do it in less than an hour

srotton HTML Spirograph (2021)

Just in case you missed it, the same guy also has a gear generator

https://geargenerator.com