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noneucaton Slick Wraps Data Breach

Should probably be merged with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384754

noneucaton Moving to GitLab

I don't recall GHC development ever being on GitHub? Most I can find is a mirror at https://github.com/ghc/ghc.

edit: Title has been changed.

noneucaton Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization

This was very enlightening for me, thank you!

noneucaton The PHP Singularity (2012)

I wasn't trying to credit the language. Just curious about the state of the ecosystem.

I had the displeasure of PHP being the first "programming language" I came across. Most of my knowledge was gleaned from w3schools and various web pages scattered around the web. I recall doing a lot of Googling while trying to figure out edge cases and such.

noneucaton The PHP Singularity (2012)

Make me wonder...

Is there anything like TypeScript or MoonScript for PHP? A source-to-source language that tries to mitigate the quirks and issues with the target language.

noneucaton An EPYC NixOS Build Farm

The tests are written in Perl and are invoked by Nix's build tools. You can skim the API at https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-nixos-tests

In this case, the test makes use of both xdotool and Nix's own testing library.