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otherflavorson Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

Portability goal not achieved, how do i run it on a BSD, for example, without a "Linuxulator"?

otherflavorson A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

Reminds me of weatherspect(https://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/) which unfortunately hasn't been working since the API it was using was deprecated/abandoned

otherflavorson Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)

The default change date for BSL is " four years after the first publicly available distribution of a specific version"

otherflavorson Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)

The BSL is not considered open source, so this is a "source-available 2D animation tool"

otherflavorson REST and gRPC in 33 Languages, with code examples

They got their Ps confused > Chapter 8: Python - The Swiss Army Knife of Programming

otherflavorson Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)

PlantUML also has gantt chart (https://plantuml.com/gantt-diagram ) support. unfortunately does not scale below days. There is a chronology diagram(https://plantuml.com/chronology-diagram) available but not linked from the main documentation or documented very much at all. Though it looks like the correct diagram in plantuml for the data in OP is a timing diagram (https://plantuml.com/timing-diagram)

otherflavorson Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

perl + Template Toolkit (using the underdocumented support for the fragment pattern with EXPOSE_BLOCKS), before finding htmx we used Jemplate, which let you compile Template Toolkit templates into Javascript functions

otherflavorson Microservices – State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 (JetBrains)

Contrary to what seems to be the rough consensus here, ESB/SOA (+ SOAP + WSDL + XML + ...) the 'correct way to do microservices' is probably something more like Self-Contained Sytems (SCS)

https://scs-architecture.org/

otherflavorson The Evolution of Vi and Vim

Probably worth noting is that elvis is the origin of nvi (New vi) which is the default on the BSDs

otherflavorson Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made

posix vi, ovi and nvi lack an X command

otherflavorson Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer

there is no else unless (or even elsunless, since this isn't javascript) in Perl, might have been

    unless (predicate) {
       do_this;
    } else {
       do_the_impossible unless impossible_thing;
    }

otherflavorson Things to know about databases

why is this tagged "MySQL" but not also "SQL"

otherflavorson Comby - Structural code search and replace for every language

s/every language/some languages/

otherflavorson Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

contrary to pikchr documentation, troff is not obsolete

otherflavorson Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'

   nvi: invalid option -- 'y'
   usage: ex [-eFRrSsv] [-c command] [-t tag] [-w size] [file ...]
   usage: vi [-eFlRrSv] [-c command] [-t tag] [-w size] [file ...]

otherflavorson Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column

I'd have suggested to make this more challenging and only use POSIX sed, but -y is not part of POSIX cal anyway

otherflavorson Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

https://www.wedesoft.de/software/2020/07/07/mealmaster/

otherflavorson Jörg Schilling has died

http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/index.php

otherflavorson What Is Server-Driven UI?

I remember late 90s early 2000s getting something like that working on pocket pc, though with a pocket access cdb providing the layout

otherflavorson Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS

This is like Hotwire, https://hotwired.dev/ or Phoenix https://phoenixframework.org/ , but for Python

otherflavorson Password of three random words better than complex variation, experts say

https://www.fourmilab.ch/onetime/otpjs.html

otherflavorson Software Engineering at Google

How does it compare to the SWEBOK https://www.computer.org/education/bodies-of-knowledge/softw... ?

otherflavorson Show HN: Botwars.io – Battle robots with your favourite programming language

A lot of favourite programming languages not listed

otherflavorson IRCv3

Many modern IRCDs expose a websocket connection, if that's HTTP enough

otherflavorson A love letter to ISC bind

I am just glad ISC gave up on 'the DNS server written in Python and C++, formerly know as "BIND 10"', now spun off as Bundy (like Ted), and in deep hibernation mode.

otherflavorson The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection

This site can’t be reached

sunsite.lanet.lv’s server IP address could not be found.

otherflavorson Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes

They seem more like systems, like SCS https://scs-architecture.org/

otherflavorson Show HN: Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE

or use nvi (not nvim) or original vi

otherflavorson Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs

It is the evolution of the arm

otherflavorson Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing

they are trying for cool points by hating on perl