You might also want to check the latest Ladybird update: https://youtu.be/cbw0KrMGHvc

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level

Even their RDBMS and SQL was copied from ideas that came from IBM. And I recall either E. F. Codd or one of the SQL guys making a remark about Oracle’s less-than-saviour sales tactics, even back in the 90s.

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

weird dude who writes raw HTML

Eyy, that’s me! Good excercise to learn actual HTML, instead of directly trying to jump into <insert random JS framework> and getting confused on what’s what.

Anyway, I ended up switching to Hugo as a static site generator, because it was too damn hard to keep all my <header>, <nav> and <main> aligned for all my HTML files.

Now I can just write a markdown file as an article, or switch back to raw HTML if I so need (like rewriting Alan Turing’s paper " On computable numbers" in HTML because I can’t use TTS on the PDFs I found; I still haven’t finished writing it, because I am now reading E. F. Codd’s papers on the Relational Model, which is pretty wild how we already figured that shit out in the 1970s!)

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.

Only Hugo; I didn’t want to try anything JS based and hugo is faaaaaast in its generation. Sub 1 second fast. It’s so nice.

Too bad you haven’t seen it - my site has a little easter egg from that movie :3

Oh wow, looks like the Haskell devs have been hauling ass! Nice!

I remember the language server being a thing already, but it was in some alpha stage back then. Good to know it’s usable now! :D

I find it refreshing to write, not generate, HTML and CSS, and then sprinkle some JavaScript for interactivity.

I’ve found hugo to be rather amazing in generating static HTML and CSS (converting either HTML or Markdown templates into regular HTML).

I started out my personal website as:

• static HTML
• an SPA (yes, the archived version still works!)
• back to static (hand-written) HTML
• expanded the hand-written HTML
• and expanded some more
• until I had to generate the HTML via hugo, because the HTML headers were getting out of sync

PS: Have you ever seen TheNet (1995)?

PPS: All the HTML is pretty much all Semantic HTML, instead of Twitter’s div>div>div>div>div

Here’s what I remember from Haskell (around 2018):

I love the language, but hate the tooling.

Used it for Uni (did a minor where I learned Haskell, recursion, parsing and regex - probably the most information dense part of school I’ve ever had. Half a year of minor also burned me out, so I never went for my masters; I’m OK with my Bachelors :D ), but never felt like picking it back up.

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

Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)

I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.

Linux or bust, babyyyyyy

just like followers of religion

We say that shit, because we’ve touched code that’s deeply inherited, and it was a god-damn pain to work with, because changing a single line can mean you’ll need to update a fuckton more, which breaks tests all god-damn over, which means you may have to refactor 50% of the application in one go.

Anyway, everything has its uses (even goto). It’s just there are typically better alternatives.

“sum types” and “algebraic data types” are horrible names.

Agreed, but they exist due to historic reasons, and now we’re stuck with them. Not much we can do there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty much the equivalent of “imaginary numbers”.

Terrible name that just means “vertical number line” (with an added operation where you rotate the vector, instead of add or scale), or “y-axis for the number line”. It’s funny because “Real” numbers are about as real as “Imaginary” numbers. Both are virtual (not physically existing).

str | int is a sum type

It just means that the variable can either be a str or an int. You’ve seen | used as “bitwise or”, right? Think in that direction.

PS: Stay away from Monads - they’ll give you an aneurysm. 😂

Learning HTML syntax is the simple part. The tedious part is learning which tags already exist, and which tags goes in which other tag (and which attributes they may (not) contain).

For that, always, ALWAYS go to the official HTML spec: WHATWG HTML.

HTML has not been maintained by WC3 (though they still do maintain CSS) and has been a “living standard” since HTML5 (2009-ish, IIRC).

I’ve read through the entire spec (using TTS, because only reading is boring) and learned a TON, because writing React straight out of the gate, without learning the HTML fundamentals first is a HUUUUGE pain.

/rant

FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

add “before:2023” to your search query

Stroustrup to congress: “You expect me to talk?”
Congress: “No, Mr Stroustup, we expect your language to DIE!”

Interesting read, but does it beat JPEGMini? Yes, it’s a paid product (not that I’ve paid, ☠🏴 yarr), but it does what it needs to do, and it does it well.

What did he use before that though? Kind of important to know where he came from :p