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okkdevon Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

If I would be buying a 3d printer right now it'd be the Snapmaker U1 Kickstarter. 750 bucks for a large enclosed multihead printer is wild.

okkdevon AI is the natural next step in making computers more accessible and useful

You gotta be living in a hype bubble to believe that.

okkdevon Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

They are primarily part of the BEAM which all these languages leverage. :)

okkdevon Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

The reason it's not in the language tour is because it's not part of the language itself. There's no async specific syntax or feature in the language itself. They all depend on the target since gleam can compile to erlang or javascript. If you compile to erlang you can use gleam_erlang and gleam_otp to leverage OTP. If you compile to javascript you use gleam_javascript and have to work with promises. It's definitely not just an afterthought and gleam_otp recently had a big 1.0 update.

okkdevon Introduction to AT Protocol

Ai generated images on the homepage are a huge bummer :(

okkdevon Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

Wow you should share this post on the gleam discord and weekly newsletter!

okkdevon Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

I think they might have ethics.

okkdevon Gleam v1.12

The link should probably point to the excellent 1.12.0 post on the website: https://gleam.run/news/no-more-dependency-management-headach...

okkdevon Good pixel art can be one-shotted by AI now

Most soulless looking pixel art I've seen in a while...

okkdevon Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

I hate this. It's cool that it's possible, but I hate it. Generating art solves no real problem and only suppresses a struggling profession without which this wouldn't even be possible...

okkdevon Gleam v1.11 Released

Another amazing release!

okkdevon I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

How is this your #1 problem? We have so much serious issues and you are hung up on women having sex? Let them fuck how much they want. Nobody stopped men from fucking and if it works, doesn't that indicate a different problem?

okkdevon Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

It's such a funny and incredibly stupid rhetoric to blame the "woke".

okkdevon Show HN: I built a free SVG Web site

Please stop doing AI generated garbage. This is bad on a legal and practical level...

okkdevon How to add a directory to your PATH

It's not any easier on windows tho

okkdevon Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga

I really can't see any of these tools actually succeed in good translations instead of surface level slop...

okkdevon My Impressions of Gleam

I really think you read too much into this. It's a programming language by people who don't want to deal with shitty people. There's more than enough healthy language design discussion going on if you are worried about that.

okkdevon My Impressions of Gleam

Not tolerating intolerance shouldn't be political.

okkdevon Gleam v1.7

You might be interested in this: https://lpil.uk/blog/how-to-add-metaprogramming-to-gleam/

okkdevon Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

Any recommendations for books with good made up technology/programming/cyberspace? I love alternate versions of the internet and ways to navigate it. I love hearing completely original but coherent technical babble with 0 connection to it's real world counterpart.

okkdevon Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine

It's not an exhaustive take, but what it boils down to. Also the Github blocking is false and has been disproven.

okkdevon Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine

I beg to differ.

okkdevon Gleam Is Pragmatic

Type safety is one of the goals of the language I don't see a reason to throw it out of the window now. I see what you mean, but the type system is one of the things that makes gleam pragmatic. If you really need some missing OTP feature you can super easily step into Erlang using FFI and get it. That's one of the reasons the article doesn't call gleam pure.

okkdevon Gleam Is Pragmatic

Because of type safety. The OTP lib is already great, but there are still some things missing, most requested being named processes. But there is work being done to figure out how to best make it work for gleam.

okkdevon Gleam Is Pragmatic

Most people use the OTP lib! There's this super useful intro repo: https://github.com/bcpeinhardt/learn_otp_with_gleam

okkdevon Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine

Godot expressed support for LGBTQ+, so the alt-right had to fork their own.

okkdevon Why Haskell?

Spring is probably the worst framework created, so I wouldn't list that as an example :/

okkdevon HID Remapper

For that case I use the Powertoys Keyboard Manager. Powertoys is a windows must install, in my opinion. Surprised it's still not installed by default. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

okkdevon Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA

Me too, but it had this nasty bug where me and a bunch of other users occasionally only saw a black screen after unlocking. For me rebooting my phone fixed it, but not for everyone. I can't really afford to not be able to access my 2fa codes. This lasted for over a month, so I decided to move to ente auth.

okkdevon Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks

This is cool, but I still need some packages that only work through brew. What I've done is to just let nix generate a Brewbundle file and run the bundle install when it changes. https://github.com/okkdev/dotnix/blob/main/home%2Fhomebrew.n...