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dominictarr / readme.md
Created November 26, 2018 22:39
statement on event-stream compromise

Hey everyone - this is not just a one off thing, there are likely to be many other modules in your dependency trees that are now a burden to their authors. I didn't create this code for altruistic motivations, I created it for fun. I was learning, and learning is fun. I gave it away because it was easy to do so, and because sharing helps learning too. I think most of the small modules on npm were created for reasons like this. However, that was a long time ago. I've since moved on from this module and moved on from that thing too and in the process of moving on from that as well. I've written way better modules than this, the internet just hasn't fully caught up.

@broros

otherwise why would he hand over a popular package to a stranger?

If it's not fun anymore, you get literally nothing from maintaining a popular package.

One time, I was working as a dishwasher in a restu

@chaitanyagupta
chaitanyagupta / _reader-macros.md
Last active April 29, 2024 09:09
Reader Macros in Common Lisp

Reader Macros in Common Lisp

This post also appears on lisper.in.

Reader macros are perhaps not as famous as ordinary macros. While macros are a great way to create your own DSL, reader macros provide even greater flexibility by allowing you to create entirely new syntax on top of Lisp.

Paul Graham explains them very well in [On Lisp][] (Chapter 17, Read-Macros):

The three big moments in a Lisp expression's life are read-time, compile-time, and runtime. Functions are in control at runtime. Macros give us a chance to perform transformations on programs at compile-time. ...read-macros... do their work at read-time.

@ovatsus
ovatsus / Setup.fsx
Created March 17, 2012 17:07
Script to setup F# Interactive session, loading everything in the current solution
#r "System.Xml.Linq"
open System
open System.IO
open System.Xml.Linq
let script = seq {
//TODO: this currently loads fsproj's in alphabeticall order, we should instead
//build the dependencies graph of the fsproj's and load them in topological sort order