Readit Newswater_badger commented on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion · Posted by u/shannoncc
And transparent 1 pixel gifs :-)
don't forget VRML there are dozens of us
water_badger commented on Video Game Websites in the early 00s webdesignmuseum.org/exhib... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
I think we underestimate the creative downside of forcing responsive design on everything
water_badger commented on Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin github.com/farant/rhubarb... · Posted by u/water_badger
Very impressive - there is a lot of work here! But why? They explain it
in docs/latina.h.md |
In include/latina.h, they use the C preprocessor to redefine the C keywords in Latin. Also, many numeric constants -- instead of 4096 you write MMMMXCVI.
The other files in docs explain each library routine in English, but the code samples are in Latin. The source files - a lot of them! - are in include and lib. The code is all in Latin, including the error messages and comments.
I am slowly learning bits of latin doing this. And Claude does say that it makes it read the code less on “autopilot” because it has to stop and translate the code. Don’t know how big a difference that is though!
water_badger commented on Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin github.com/farant/rhubarb... · Posted by u/water_badger
Interesting!
Back in the '80s, before AI could quickly produce such things, I had created a "Greek" version of the C language -- obviously named "Γ".
A lot of preprocessor definitions were involved for keyword translation, as one can imagine. Translating the C standard library was a much more difficult process: it involved patching the compiler/linker on a BSD system, since you could not have non-ASCII symbols (function entry points).
Wow! That sounds amazing. I did experiment with using non latin characters for conventions like mu but I think I ran into some suprising rough edges working with claude that made me abandon it, forget what exactly they were though.
Working in C is such a breath of fresh air compared to typescript, go, etc. I love having pure text substitution macros.
water_badger commented on Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin github.com/farant/rhubarb... · Posted by u/water_badger
This same author's Aquinas OS also looks interesting -- although it is not in Latin.
I started aquinas first, that was a very interesting learning experience! Not as hard to get stuff on the screen targeting an emulator as your “machine” as I would have thought.
water_badger commented on Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin github.com/farant/rhubarb... · Posted by u/water_badger
I like this project, because it's fundamentally insane. I really enjoyed reading your CLAUDE.md and related documents, as someone with a religious philosophy background, it was a really wild ride and I am now very curious about how Claude feels going through the onboarding process. You're essentially "breaking the brain" of Claude and then having it work on your code. Do you have Claude also read show_bible.md?
I am experimenting with show bible as an “advanced vibe coding technique” for documenting modules, maybe an episode per module?
Claude seems to respond positively! You can always clone the repo, run the /hello-world slash command in claude code and then ask it what it thinks? Can be a fun conversation to ask it to introspect.
You can see the first step of the idea here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/eec07cc4-e8fa-4350-a496-a...
And the second step here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5cba1778-8289-4744-a1ad-2...
Just thought it looked cool!
EDIT:
This one is even cooler than the main link I think… https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5c98aaf6-aadc-4785-a948-3...