Open Source Software and publications by Christian Kruse
This page contains random thoughts and impressions by me.
This is hilarious 🤣
„A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages“
Tidbit:
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.
Gaming seems horribly broken to me these days. Everything is packed with micro transactions, and everything is just a slot machine to get you going via a dopamin hit.
„How to type the word blimpy in Emacs“
This is hilarious 🤣
„Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit“
Hilarious article 🤣
Tidbit:
"We knew that there are precisely 38 people who give a shit about Haskell," said Van Der Linde, "because every Haskell-related reddit post gets exactly 38 upvotes. It's a pure, deterministic function of no arguments -- that is, the result is independent of what we actually announce. But there are only 37 of us on our mailing list, so we figured there was a lurker somewhere."
PC hardware disappoints me time and time again. I ordered a workstation for faster Rust build times. An i7 13700 with 16 cores and 24 threads, 64gb RAM and a 1tb Samsung 990 NVMe ssd.
While the performance is better than I was hoping for, damn, this machine when used in a casual edit&recompile workflow is as loud as our Dell servers. Fucking hell, how is anyone able to work with this thing on your desk?!
For my fellow GNOME users, who are also extremely pissed of by these „$application is ready“ notifications: Grand Theft Focus fixes that ❤️
„Cool your heels, Emacs“ – an interesting piece about debouncing and throtteling in Emacs Lisp
I just read an article from the Clean Coder Blog: „Why Clojure?“. Even though the author didn't sell Clojure to me it is an interesting article with food for thought.
Tidbit: „The thing about those new languages is that there’s nothing new in any of them. They’re just made up of the pieces of old languages that they cut up and shook in a jar and then dumped out in a game of language Yahtzee.“
Learning Emacs: Sacha Chua, the author of Emacs News, made a cute hand-drawn sketch on how to learn Emacs
TIL: you can't sort a read-only array in JS, because Array.sort sorts in-place. Also lodash's _.sort uses Array.sort internally and tries to sort the read-only array.
„GenServer.reply: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You“ – an article about how to do longer running background tasks in GenServer scenarios. Even though I've been writing Elixir code for about 5 years I didn't know about GerServer.reply, pretty interesting.
An interesting review of the 15" Macbook Air. Interestingly the disk IO seems to be a weak point. He comes to the conclusion that you shouldn't buy the Macbook Air but the 14" Macbook Pro.
Interesting read: Max Rozen moved from an Macbook Air M1 to a Thinkpad.
TIL: git stash --keep-index stashes only changes not added to the index, so e.g. staged changes won't be stashed
„Flatpak explained“ - a pretty comprehensive video from Nick about Flatpak
„Put a Pin on That“ is a pretty interesting article about Pin/Unpin in Rust.
I think I will re-vitalize my website. It's been dead for a few months since using a Mastodon app directly was just more convenient, but I still like the idea of the indie web and POSSE
Veronica Explains about 90s websites and the guestbook. A real nostalgia journey to the early internet 😍
There is a love-hate relationship between Dialyzer and me. On the one hand it is really great when I find a bug because of it, but on the other hand… OMG is it sometimes hard to understand what the warnings mean.
@fasterthanlime@octodon.social published an interesting article about LSP internals, Rust, #emacs and unicode woes: The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
When I was young I had so many ideas what software to write, but I didn't have the skills. And so most projects ended in the bin.
Nowadays I have the skills but I lack the ideas, the motivation and the time.
Getting old can really suck.
Trying out the Helix editor. Interesting concepts, modern features, but it looks like the tutorial is outdated. Some key bindings don't work as advertised. For example according to the documentation the Alt-. key combo should repeat the last selection, but instead it creates a selection to some point in the buffer, I don't yet understand which one.
