Got 50% in first try, the computer only made two guesses, one right and one wrong, and passed the rest.
Readit Newscontinuational commented on Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine loper-os.org/bad-at-entro... · Posted by u/Kotlopou
Not long ago I was looking through programming language sites to figure out how to best introduce the language I'm working on.
ruby-lang.com stood out with a text in a big font:
Ruby is...
Followed by a paragraph about what makes Ruby special. I think that was an exceptionally simple and natural way of introducing something as complex as a programming language.
A programming language for the web:
https://www.firefly-lang.org/
continuational commented on Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth? ramones.dev/posts/where-a... · Posted by u/ramon156
Sure, but one could imagine that there are people working at the supermarket who would also rather do personal stuff or go cycling. But there they are, serving you.
continuational commented on Comic Code Reviews jona.ca/2025/11/comic-cod... · Posted by u/JonathanAquino
Interesting idea but unfortunately the given example comic makes very little sense.
It was difficult to parse even as someone who's familiar with these concepts, and I think it will hurt more than help any newbies.
I think this kind of slop has negative value. It's unclear how much of the information in the comic is hallucinated, and the malformed code "for i = i1+|>" and nonsense text "(starts write hooks!" doesn't bode well.
What AWS gives you is the ability to spin up dozens if not thousands of hosts in a single click.
If you run your own hardware, getting stuff shipped to a datacenter and installed is 2 to 4 weeks (and potentially much longer based on how efficient your pipeline is)
But on Hetzner, you can usually get a dedicated server installed and ready tomorrow.
continuational commented on The terminal of the future jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-t... · Posted by u/miguelraz
A few years ago I worked on TopShell, an attempt to reimagine the shell+terminal using functional programming:
https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell#readme
It ticks some of the boxes, but tonnes of work would be needed to turn it into a full alternative.
This looks good! It feels a little bit similiar to ReScript. I like the idea to have nodeMain, browserMain and buildMain. The Roc language had something similiar with platforms and I love that idea!
In general I prefer a better language over an involved javascript framework that does not look like js anymore.
Thank you! Yeah, I think some of the newer frameworks really complicate dataflow. We're trying to keep dataflow clear, though it's a big design space given the distributed nature of webapps.
In any case, if you take it for a spin, I'd love some feedback.
Working on a programming language for webapps!
Speed is not an optional feature on the web. The site above is written in Firefly, uses hydration, and scores 100% on PageSpeed Insights.
The language is largely complete, and we're now working on DX: Got a language server, a devserver, and some essential libraries.
> The growth I’d been celebrating wasn’t real growth—it was just a spike of first-time buyers who never came back.
If I'm wrong, and these were actually written by a human, I'd love a chance to stand corrected and apologize.