Here's mine: https://cmacleod.me.uk/ - I'm a retired programmer, my site has links to various projects, mostly in Tcl, some Javascript or C, also old blog, etc.
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cmacleod4 commented on Sandboxing Untrusted Python gist.github.com/mavdol/2c... · Posted by u/mavdol04
As with most Python problems, the solution is to switch to Tcl - https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/interp.html#M44 :-)
cmacleod4 commented on Show HN: Feather – a fresh Tcl reimplementation (WASM, Go) feather-lang.dev... · Posted by u/dhamidi
Very interesting!
Note that the name might be confused with an old project: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Feather .
cmacleod4 commented on When if is just a function ryelang.org/blog/posts/if... · Posted by u/soheilpro
cmacleod4 commented on Hacker News – The Good Parts smartmic.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/smartmic
The one thing that really annoys me about HN is that when you return to a discussion that you read the day before, there is no way to easily find the comments which are new since your previous visit. This is basic functionality which Usenet always had (and still does).
cmacleod4 commented on Hacker News – The Good Parts smartmic.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/smartmic
Usenet was great early on, but near the time of its acquisition it was suffering from the same problems we see now on all social media sites: trolls, objectionable content, power-hungry mods, the works.
All these problems are writ much larger now because the net is like a million times as popular as back then. No social media site can survive on free moderators and without membership fees unless the rent gets paid somehow.
I assert HN requires less "rent" from us users than any other equally successful social media site.
What "acquisition"? Nobody owns Usenet, it's a cooperative effort between many different server operators which continues to this day.
The main difference between Delphi/Lazarus and classic VB is that in classic VB you can pause the program and run commands in the paused program - i.e. running it in a "half-alive" state, though it wasn't fully editable as many changes requiring restarting.
On the other hand Delphi/Lazarus has a much more capable language and richer set of components (and in Lazarus' case much better support for automatic layouts), which IMO is better overall.
But yeah, in the 90s Lazarus didn't exist (Delphi did though) - IIRC it was made around 2000 or so but it was really janky for most of the 2000s.
Note that Delphi (and Lazarus) is used for a lot more than LoB apps. It was used a lot by shareware developers for example (and some still use it, e.g. IIRC both Beyond Compare and Total Commander still use Delphi - with Lazarus for crossplatform and/or 64bit builds).
"pause the program and run commands in the paused program" - that's often possible in Tcl too. There are various ways to interact with a running program, query or modify variables, run commands, load updated code, etc.
cmacleod4 commented on I visited the happiest country. I wish I could unlearn its secret slate.com/life/2025/08/tr... · Posted by u/prawn
Edit: not sure why I was downvoted, I’m literally attempting to provide whatever information you need about this, just not sure what aspect is confusing.