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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 496 posts.
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Libghostty is coming
Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty , I shared my vision for libghostty : an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. Libghostty is finally starting to take shape, and I'm excited to share more details about my plans…
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10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
We've been waiting since April 24, 2012 for a Google Drive Linux client.
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DTrace for Linux 2016
DTrace for Linux 2016: announcing a major milestone: the final kernel capabilities have merged in Linux 4.9-rc1 to enhanced BPF (eBPF) to provide an advanced programmable dynamic tracer similar to DTrace.
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Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next
All I can say is “wow”! The response to Light Table has been far more positive and far greater than I could’ve imagined. To put it into perspective, here are some aggregated numbers at the time of this writing:
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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
Mousetrap is a simple keyboard shortcut/event library written in Javascript.
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Why LSP?
LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There's a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:
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Map of my personal data infrastructure
Well, it's been a year since I started the draft, so I guess it's about time to publish this! :)
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Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon
Update 29.01.2023: Adapted the code to work with Mastodon 4.0 and replaced linuxrocks.online by floss.social Update 15.03.2023: Thanks to @veronica@mastodon.online, this code now handles replies in a lot nicer way. You might want check out her solution too. Update 07.07.2023: Thanks to @cassidy@blaede.family, the…
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How to improve Python packaging
There is an area of Python that many developers have problems with. This is an area that has seen many different solutions pop up over the years, with many different opinions, wars, and attempts to solve it. Many have complained about the packaging ecosystem and tools making their lives harder. Many beginners are…
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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)
This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
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Working Off-Grid Efficiently
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve the underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was also our house and transport. As for us, we were artists, but also had to be plumbers, deckhands…
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Storage for Photographers
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those photo RAWs filling up the tiny-compared-to-spinning-platters SSD on their primary machine.
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Understanding Git
Git is quickly becoming one of the most popular version control systems in use. There are plenty of tutorials on Git already. How is this one different?
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The Tools of a Blind Programmer
The Life of a Completely Blind Programmer in the Netherlands
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The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box fan
Designs for a quieter, more energy efficient purifier, and data proving it really works.
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Running LLaMA 7B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with Llama.cpp
See also: Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment right now .
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Why aren't you using git-flow?
git-flow is a library of git subcommands that helps automate your branching and release workflow workflow, using Vincent Driessen's successful branching model.
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Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)
TL;DR: A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen. The code/build instructions are available on GitHub .
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I am a puts debuggerer
Update (2023-06-28): Added “I required a file, but I want to know what files were actually loaded” I love puts debugging I am a puts debuggerer. I don’t say this to disparage people that use a Real Debugger. I think Real Debuggers are great, I’ve just never taken the time to learn one well. Every time I try to lean…
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I do not use a debugger (2016)
I learned to program with BASIC back when I was twelve. I would write elaborate programs and run them. Invariably, they would surprise me by failing to do what I expect. I would struggle for a time, but I'd eventually give up and just accept that whatever "bugs" I had created were there to stay. … Continue reading I…
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Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript
Taking Bret Victor's notion of connecting to your creation and turning it into a ClojureScript live game editor.
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The IDE as a value
In my last post I talked about building a game in ClojureScript using a Component-Entity-System engine and I hinted that the ideas that underly that architecture inspired how we designed Light Table . The reason why stems from the architectural goals of the project:
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Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.