Little known fact: OCaml was at one point called "Zinc" ("Zinc is not Caml").
Readit Newsfermigier commented on The Geometry of Schemes [pdf] webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~... · Posted by u/measurablefunc
Published in 2000.
(I studied schemes 10 years before, but I quit maths in 2000 so this book wouldn't have helped me. It seems like a good introduction, looking at the TOC. Grounded on actual geometry, not just category theory like other textbooks).
Also, the racoon ?!
Maybe it is because I'm a bit too deep in the React ecosystem at this point, but once you start trying to do any reasonably complex task, this seems like it would be significantly harder to reason about.
Also, unless I'm misunderstanding it, this revolves a lot around the backend returning HTML to do backend-as-frontend, which given my previous experiences with the concept, I wouldn't want to touch with a 10ft pole. When you consider users with extremely bad internet connections (there are still people on dsl/older satellite/2G), having to make more requests to the backend that return larger blobs of html (as opposed to fewer requests that return JSON when it is relevant) will result in a significantly more degraded user experience
"this revolves a lot around the backend returning HTML"
→ This is the way the Web used to work in the era of 56kbps modems (also, with ten levels of "<TABLE>" for layout).
fermigier commented on I switched from Htmx to Datastar everydaysuperpowers.dev/a... · Posted by u/ksec
I was late to the hypermedia party, started with datastore but now use HTMX when i want something in this space. The datastar api is a bit nicer but htmx 2.0 supports the same approach, the key thing is what htmx calls OOB updates, with that in place, everything else is a win in the htmx column.
"I was late to the hypermedia party" → very late indeed :)
The term was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson in: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800197.806036
Here's the exact sentence: "The hyperfilm-- a browsable or vari-sequenced movie-- is only one of the possible hypermedia that require our attention."
fermigier commented on Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition t3x.org/lfn/index.html... · Posted by u/nils-m-holm
Thanks. I recently had to reinvent LISP to script my CRDT database.
That was not much work, because I already had the notation (I use RDX, a JSON superset with CRDT types).
Still, I stumbled at the idiosyncratic LISP bracketing. Luckily, RDX allows for different tuple notations. So, I styled it to look less alien to a curly-braced developer. Like this https://github.com/gritzko/go-rdx/blob/main/test/13-getput.j...
For example, print change-dir make-dir; is equivalent to (print (change-dir (make-dir) ) ) in the old money. I wonder if I am reinventing too much here.
Did LISPers try to get rid of the brackets in the past?
fermigier commented on Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition t3x.org/lfn/index.html... · Posted by u/nils-m-holm
"... and the chicks for free "?
fermigier commented on SIOF (Scheme in One File) – A Minimal R7RS Scheme System github.com/false-schemers... · Posted by u/gjvc
70 KLOC
fermigier commented on Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta untested.sonnet.io/notes/... · Posted by u/rpastuszak
Yep, thought it was going to be about Humanized Enso
I thought for a second that it was about the Enso programming language (https://modeling-languages.com/enso-dont-design-your-program...) :)
fermigier commented on Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021) kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Br... · Posted by u/sebg
The "Acme Klein Bottle Wine Bottle" is incredible. It strongly reminds me of Jacques Carelman's "Catalogue d'objets introuvables" (1969) [translated as "Catalog of fantastic things", 1971 by Ballantine Books in New York].
As wikipedia states:
> Carelman is best known for his Catalog of fantastic things (Catalogue d'objets introuvables) also known as Catalogue of Unfindable Objects, made in 1969 as a parody of the catalog of the French mail order company Manufrance. This work has been translated into 19 languages (including Korean, Hebrew and Finnish). Among these imaginary objects are, for instance, a "Kangaroo gun" whose "barrel is extensively studied ... to give the bullet a sinusoidal trajectory which follows the animal in its leaps", or a disposable "Plaster anvil ... (sold by the dozen) to be discarded after use, allowing you to make substantial savings." The most famous item in this catalog was Carelman's "Coffeepot for Masochists", a coffeepot with a backwards facing spout that would scald the user. This design became a symbol for the critique of everyday things and was featured on the cover of Don Norman's book on the topic, The Design of Everyday Things.
(I didn't make the connection with Don Norman's book, another, more serious, classic).
Initiated by the city of Munich, LiMux aimed to migrate public administration systems from Windows to a Linux-based OS to increase control over IT infrastructure and reduce costs. Despite initial success (announced at LinuxTag in 2014, I was there for the announcement), the project faced intense political lobbying by Microsoft leading to a reversion to Windows.
More examples in this note: https://lab.abilian.com/Tech/Linux/Sovereign%20OS%20-%20%22E... (in particular https://lab.abilian.com/Tech/Linux/Sovereign%20OS%20-%20%22E...)