This week's #WebOrigami comic: Coding in your terminal
More about The ori command-line interface: https://weborigami.org/cli/
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/coding-in-your-terminal.html
Using ori in a VS Code JavaScript Debug Terminal lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through code you start from a terminal!
Processing
I've only skimmed this nice post.
Thorough reading will follow later
Some highlights which resonate with me *as flageolets on a string instrument* are captured here in screenshots I've made on an Android
Many tools still work exactly as they did (decades ago)
The feeBSD handbook taught me an enormous ammount, more than many of my University courses, including things that had nothing to do with freeBSD specifically
This is vital
The handbook taught me the right approach
This is a principle I use since I've been a peuter (NL).
Sources
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/
#freeBSD #IT #notes #ITNotes #dragas #programming #OpenSource #no #Linux #logic #analysis
What are you doing this week? by 
@caiusEdge Case ℭɑⅈᵤˢ https://lobste.rs/s/tskynu #ask #programming
In an alternative timeline where #FunctionalProgramming is the norm instead of Object-oriented programming, and #Haskell is the most popular #ProgrammingLanguage instead of #Java, there is a list of tutorials trying to explain what Objects are to programmers in terms of FP concepts, the most popular of which is, “Objects are Comonads”.
However, we don't live in that timeline, so we'll have to be content with the inverse article, “Comonads are Objects” https://www.haskellforall.com/2013/02/you-could-have-invented-comonads.html .
Might as well reintroduce myself!
Hi folks! I’m Ted, a games person with over a decade of #programming and #gamedesign experience who currently works at Meta giving deep dive technical and design feedback to help make games great!
I also provide mentorship, give talks, and work to help us all grow powerful together!💜
Some Interests!
‣ #science (I was a #physics major!)
‣#gamedev (my vocation is my avocation!)
‣#vr / #VirtualReality
‣ #Gaming
‣ #music (I play #piano and #sing #jazz, and used to play #trombone!)
‣ #streaming
‣ #philosophy
‣ Other stuff but I have #ADHD so it varies wildly from month to month!
I'm also a proud #nonbinary ( #genderfluid ) #bisexual, happily married to my awesome partner 
@jennatar, who helps me take care of our family of 3 #cats (Jezebel, Muffin, and Lucha) and a #dog (Bobby!)
Looking forward to seeing folks' #introduction posts!
Today, I coded a calculator app in Python, and when I first tried the shebang, it didn't run, but I eventually found the problem.
It turns out line endings in files matter. I kept using windows line endings because that's how I end my txt files. I had to switch it to Linux/Unix for the shebang to work 
It's not the best-looking one, as the square root operator text just says "Sqrt".
I've created a PR in #Nixkell, a simple #Nix #Haskell setup framework, to add support for easy building of statically-linked executables (https://github.com/pwm/nixkell/pull/50). I'd appreciate it if any Nixkell users gives it a try for their projects. I've been using this code for a couple of my projects, and it works fine for me, but I'd like to have more working examples.
Never knew that closing channels in #golang is such an involved affair: https://go101.org/article/channel-closing.html
#programming
54kb minecraft clone made without a graphics library https://lobste.rs/s/feireu #video #c #games #programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO8EnzNfEk4
I've completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/9.
Went full mutable today with #Haskell. Check out my solution at https://github.com/abhin4v/AoC24/blob/main/app/Day9.hs
And of course, no disk defragmentation solution is complete without a proper visualization. #Haskell #adventofcode #programming #visualization
I've completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/9.
Went full mutable today with #Haskell. Check out my solution at https://github.com/abhin4v/AoC24/blob/main/app/Day9.hs
What are you doing this weekend? by @caiusEdge Case ℭɑⅈᵤˢ https://lobste.rs/s/jwdr0q #ask #programming
I've been writing #CPP for about a month now, and even though I have to lookup the docs very very often, the hardest thing I find is to keep track of lifetimes of objects, references and (smart) pointers. Using references and smart pointers gives an illusion of almost having automatic garbage collection. But one mistake of not tracking the lifetime correctly, and the object disappears, causing null pointers and segmentation faults.
I don't know if I'm running into these issues because I'm a noob or because that's how C++ programming goes. Hopefully it will become more intuitive with time.
The second biggest problem that I have faced with writing a PL implementation in #CPP is the lack of immutable data structures. I keep modifying the AST by mistake while walking over it. This is made much worse by the fact that I'm trying to implement a #Lisp with immutable data structures (much like #Clojure).
When I copy container data to preserve the old versions, I feel bad because of the performance implications. There is no easy way to share internal data between different versions of same data structures (AKA persistent data structures). Maybe there is a library that can help me all this.
I learned #FunctionalProgramming to escape the imperative programming languages, which in turn got me interested into #Compilers and #ProgrammingLanguages. Turns out, most of the real-world compilers are written in C and C++, so here I am back at square one.
After years of avoiding it for decades, I taught myself #Cpp in the last couple of weeks. So anyway, does anyone want me to write a series of #blog posts about making a #Lisp #interpreter (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) in C++?
I've been writing #CPP for about a month now, and even though I have to lookup the docs very very often, the hardest thing I find is to keep track of lifetimes of objects, references and (smart) pointers. Using references and smart pointers gives an illusion of almost having automatic garbage collection. But one mistake of not tracking the lifetime correctly, and the object disappears, causing null pointers and segmentation faults.
I don't know if I'm running into these issues because I'm a noob or because that's how C++ programming goes. Hopefully it will become more intuitive with time.
Every year I try to solve some problems from the #AdventOfCode competition in a not straightforward way. This year I solved the day 19 problem “Aplenty” by compiling the problem input to an executable file.
A new #blog post: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/compiling-aoc23-aplenty/
Currently working on optimizing a Clippy lint that takes 320 million instructions, turns out that 18% of all Clippy is spent in the same function.
Yes, Clippy spends 18% of the Clippy-exclusive time on the same lint.
Games in PostScript - Play Chess Against Your Printer https://lobste.rs/s/efhaws #video #programming #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCATafErA8
#introduction - Hey Mastoverse, I spend a lot of time here as 
@shellsharks chatting about #infosec but when I’m not doing that here’s some other stuff I’m into.
#apple #beer #sports #travel #battlestations #food #starwars #lotr #pokemon #gaming #tesla #space #fitness #hiking #camping #backpacking #basketball #technology #music #deathmetal #coding #programming
Appreciate a boost for the reach! @ me if you wanna chat shared interests 😎.
I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction https://lobste.rs/s/qoo4jh #ai #programming #vibecoding
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/ai-abstraction/
A fully snapshotable Wasm interpreter https://lobste.rs/s/eu5uiz #programming #rust #wasm
https://github.com/friendlymatthew/gabagool
Help for #git wanted:
That single file gets copied to several projects, not a package, not a library.
I could let it have its git repo, build process, etc and pull it in with the dependency mechanism. 😮💨
Is there a better way, like an "include" mechanism for git repos or whatnot?
My second best approach currently is to let the build system copy the file if the single file repo is available and commit the copy whenever it shows up as changed. Better ideas?
Pike - Solving the "should we stop here or gamble on the next exit" problem https://lobste.rs/s/anyib0 #programming
https://tomjohnell.com/pike-solving-the-should-we-stop-here-or-gamble-on-the-next-exit-problem/
Happy International Developers Day of 2025 😊
I shall remind every single one of you that Python is a fake language created by the deep state trying to convince you that indented languages work.
Ah, and Rust is overrated.
#programming #tech #trolled
Hey #UnrealEngine code plugin devs, I'm releasing the code I use for my plugins to make #UE4 & #UE5 support a lot easier.
https://github.com/sbseltzer/VersionMacros
Includes better macros for checking engine version and automatic prebuild scripts to work around the preprocessor limitations in UnrealHeaderTool, allowing you to `#if` out blocks of code that contain Unreal "magic macros". This allows you to maintain backwards compatibility without forsaking modern Unreal features. Includes installation instructions and examples of using it.
Feedback is appreciated! I'd also appreciate Linux users to verify it works for them.
#GameDev #UnrealEngine4 #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #Programming #CPP
Programmers, can you inform me why people still use github? Its owned by Microsoft, promotes AI garbage, and that alone kind of makes it shitty as a place to host open source stuff in my book. As a simple plebian, am I missing something? I don't code, so does it offer something that other platforms don't?
Play the long game when learning to code (2020) via 
@mysticmode https://lobste.rs/s/e2r9gb #compsci #programming
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/10/05/play-the-long-game-when-learning-to-code/
Oh you're kidding me, an inverted Vulkan viewport also inverts the triangle winding??
It makes sense, but how did it take me this long to notice 😅
logged into reddit for the first time in ages again and was presented with this gem:
Building a Package Manager on Top of Meson's Wrap System via 
@aksAkseli 
https://lobste.rs/s/ut7ph5 #programming
https://collider.ee/blog/2026-03-09-2328_building_a_package_manager/
My current thinking is that in order to make a resolution independent UI toolkit one must first have a resolution independent drawing library?
The things I've found on that were algorithms based on device independent pixels.
Is that still actually the state of the art?
My primary design constraint is that I want the scaling to be zero cost when there's no actual scaling happening.
Can anyone point me to some good books/posts on the subject?
Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse https://lobste.rs/s/sxlo6h #graphics #programming
https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.
But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better
"fuck the manbabies, #women were here first"
(i may be paraphrasing, uh, slightly)
New blog post is up! This one is about a technique for mostly-mechanically removing recursion from mostly-arbitrary recursive functions. https://jnkr.tech/blog/removing-recursion
Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation https://lobste.rs/s/bv55sb #programming
https://jnkr.tech/blog/removing-recursion
Rust-like Error Handling in TypeScript https://lobste.rs/s/lcvctc #javascript #programming #rust
https://codeinput.com/blog/typescript-result
What are you doing this week? by @caiusEdge Case ℭɑⅈᵤˢ https://lobste.rs/s/eab8au #ask #programming
Cambridge Battlecode: Code bots that compete in a turn-based strategy game https://lobste.rs/s/moirx6 #programming
https://battlecode.cam/
Why octal notation should be used for UTF-8 (and Unicode) (2016) https://lobste.rs/s/sdrpbx #programming
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2016-10-05/0/POSTING-en.html
Does anyone know of good tools or libraries for diagramming data structures? Like, boxes with contents inside of them and arrows between them. I want to make some diagrams for my blog post that I'd like to look nice.
Bonus points for something that outputs SVG, because I'm on netlify and I don't want scrapers to chew up my bandwidth.
Hey! I'm Tomek. I live in #Poland. I've moved here from mastodon.social.
I work professionally with #Clojure, but I'm into everything #engineering-related as well.
I've a wonderful wife and two super curious and smart children. I love #weightlifting and #walking
You can expect toots related to #tech, #programming and #mentalhealth.
MuJS - lightweight Javascript interpreter designed for embedding in other software https://lobste.rs/s/e174yb #javascript #programming
https://mujs.com/
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