Perhaps the greatest surprise of the last two years was, for me, the realization that people not only care about compiling C to Rust (for obvious reasons, such as, ahem, memory safety) – they also care about compiling Rust to C! Wait, what? I wrote about this briefly a couple years ago, but the l...
TLDR: I built a portable step-sequencer synthesizer for my daughter’s third birthday. It has four sliders that control four notes in a looping sequence. Slide up = higher pitch, slide down = lower. It includes: An onboard synth module + speaker Tempo, volume, scale, pitch, and instrument controls...
Terminal internals are a mess. A lot of it is just the way it is because someone made a decision in the 80s and now it’s impossible to change. Julia Evans This is what you have to do to redesign infrastructure. Rich [Hickey] didn't just pile some crap on top of Lisp [when building Clojure]. He to...
Midjourney, AI Struggling With Time Management, 2025Today, AIs can do some things. Eventually, they may be able to do everything. Forecasts generally project forward from what AI can do today, estimating how long it will take to fill in the gaps. We often underestimate the size of those gaps. Som...
AIチャットの「優しさ」が、時に思考の妨げになる――。 そんな問題意識から生まれた、あるRedditユーザーの投稿が世界中で話題になっています。 「ChatGPTがなんでも褒めてくる」ことへの違和感 This guy removed the “nice” filter from ChatGPT and got way better results. I tried it and it works very well. pic.tw...
イエス（Yes）／エイジア（Asia）／バグルス（The Buggles）などでの活躍でも知られるジェフ・ダウンズ（Geoff Downes）が選ぶ「史上最高のプログレッシブ・ロック・アルバム 11選」。英Progに寄稿しています。順位は厳密な優先順位ではありません。 11. PROCOL HARUM - SHINE ON BRIGHTLY (1968) 10. CARAVAN - IN THE ...
Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever The New York Times recently introduced a new daily puzzle called Pips. You place a set of dominoes on a grid, satisfying various conditions. For instance, in the puzzle below, the pips (dots) in the purple squares...
Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a program is intended to manipulate, and the values it actually manipulates. While there have been many bytes spent on discussions of whether this is worth the effort, some programming language designers ...
A Clash Course in Solving Sudoku (Functional Pearl) Gergő Érdi∗ Independent Singapore, Singapore gergo@erdi.hu Abstract Clash is a compiler from Haskell to hardware description. We explore a Haskell-first approach to hardware design by building an FPGA Sudoku solver based on a well-known software...
This post is based on a talk I presented at Web Directions Summit, 2024. Let's start by addressing the elephant in the room. Why the heck am I talking about making mazes? Normally, I try to be practical when I'm writing or speaking. I want to give people tools they can use to make their coding li...
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