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  I've been on the main branch of Tcl/Tk I can confirm that the GUI and language situation is extremely good. The announcement buries the lede but the Zipfs_Apphook is a gamechanger, I can use to package any app into single executable cross platform AppImage like thing (works great on Windows!). Any app, it could be Java, JS whatever, just bundle everything (JRE, shared libs, static assets, whatever) into a Zip image & from the user POV it's just a single executable. https://www.tcl...

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  Generating strings: haha f**k yeah! Parsing those strings: this f'king sucks, wtf!

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  Cool perf hack: when someone says "for better or worse", the "better or" can be optimized away.

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  I'm in the beginning stages of learning several new unfamiliar languages for the first time in a while and without a doubt the hardest part is *still* constantly having to stop what you're doing and go look something up to get the simplest thing done.

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  This is some alt-timeline stuff, SML was (is) more like Lisp images than I realized. You can check point intermediate states of a compilation into a file and even have states that depend on other states for an n-ary dependency tree of cached IR that can be loaded into an app. https://www.polyml.org/documentation/Reference/PolyMLSaveState.html

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@robpike/117260142225119158 the key difference is calculators and Google Maps work

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  Not as strong a stance as I would like, concerned with slippery-sloping, but reasonable in the current environment. #emacs https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/AGENTS.md

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  "verily" https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/scrub

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  Forward deployed sounds like the infantry unit you sacrifice to waste the enemy's ammo.

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  Unit test that only fails when Github is down, Happy Monday!

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  RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117271328817992163 PBS knocked this one out of the park, highly recommend!

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  Omarchy is trying to rewrite itself as a Nix distro. Man, what a stupid time for maintainers. https://freenode.net/article/nixos-community-splits-over-omarchy-and-dhh

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  Pro tip: if you ever want to evaluate a language don't look at the main code look at the test suite because that's where no one cares, has nothing to prove and just wants to get it done.

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  Yet Another Toxic Effect of mandatory llm workflows is even when you have juniors they learn nothing. If the slop came from a junior's brain it means they grappled with the problem and took a huge step forward in learning. You work with that person to cut it down to something small and clean, the next time around they get better, everyone's a winner. Now, zippo, nothing. Praise doesn't make sense and review is a farce.

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  This is trivially true to the point of being insulting, when you take on a dependency you are stuck with the people and culture for the life of your project. Doesn't seem worth saying but then people get all surprised when it happens to them.

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  There's still this long running myth that Haskell is slow to compile because of fancy types. Haskell _is_ slow to compile but that's because it generates gigabytes of IR. Don't believe me? Monitor your tmp folder during a compile cycle. Still don't believe me? Have GHC do a dry run. This has unfortunately lead to a ton of languages that proclaim fast compile times because of "simple" types which is at best a correlation when the real lesson is to keep generated cod...

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  If you are ever faced with an ethical dilemma just ask yourself What Would Weird Al Do https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-million-offer-saudi-arabia-1236819281/

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  Life hack: adapt your circadian rhythms to CI times.

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  When the dust settles the only software left standing will be #emacs

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  more like chick-exfil-a amirite ✋️ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chick-fil-a-discloses-data-breach-after-credential-stuffing-attacks/

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  As an act of self care I refuse to read past the headline and instead daydream about a way cooler timeline where Chinese fashion models are on a murderous rampage.

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  On the downside RIP Fender, on the upside this will be a fun ass whoopin'. #guitar https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/fender-escalates-stratocaster-copyright-fight-taking-aim-yamaha-2026-07-14/

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  #emacs #git

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  I'll say this again, for devs looking for another career, licenced dev-specific therapist is as close to a sure thing as you can get.

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  Calling it, Lisp is the durian fruit of PLs.

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  @geekysteven@beige.party this stuff reminds me of getting cloud computing rammed down our throats, I still think it's a net negative and babysitting aws still takes up an inordinate amount of my day. This is and will be worse.

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  Devs are getting a taste of what it's been like for customer support and QA test teams for decades and the hand wringing is kind of hilarious ... You may remember testers and support folk as the only people at the company who knew how your software actually worked. https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

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  The emacs mailing list delivers sometimes, here's a question from someone today trying to upgrade Linux/Emacs for Don Knuth who hasn't updated his Ubuntu box since 2013. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-02/msg00933.html

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  RE: https://hoosier.social/@ScottStarkey/116479553102145698 Great article! And if UBI is too much for you U(Healthcare) would definitely have the same effect.

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  I like how we traded Ask Jeeves for Ask Bertie.