shawwn

This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.

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What happened after 2010?

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

gaearon

class Spiderman {
  lookOut() {
    alert('My Spider-Sense is tingling.');
  }
}

let miles = new Spiderman();
miles.lookOut();

shakna-israel

Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

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jkrems

JavaScript File Format Differences

There's the pervarsive notion that all JS is created equal and that there's only minor and easily detectable differences between the various file formats used to author JavaScript. This is correct, from a certain point of view.

For many people writing JavaScript that gets passed into build tools,

GVRV

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

swalkinshaw

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

steven2358

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

shospodarets

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# based on https://gist.github.com/schacon/942899

# list
git branch -r --merged | grep origin | grep -v '>' | grep -v master\* | grep -v release-\*  | xargs -L1

# delete
git branch -r --merged | grep origin | grep -v '>' | grep -v master\* | grep -v release-\*  | xargs -L1 | awk '{sub(/origin\//,"");print}' | xargs git push origin --delete

shospodarets

#!/usr/bin/env bash
git branch | grep -v (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) | xargs git branch -D