[HN Gopher] Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
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Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
Author : janvdberg
Score : 181 points
Date : 2024-12-23 15:30 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| voidUpdate wrote:
| This is the second time I've seen the Alexander the OK video
| about Elite referenced here in two workdays. I love that channel
| so much, he does excellent dives into the history of more obscure
| vintage computers, such as the D-17B Minuteman guidance computer
| and the CK37 used in the Viggen jet
| datpiff wrote:
| The History of Wordstar is there for the second year in a row :)
| leetrout wrote:
| Some commentary about the radar...
|
| try: Boox Go 10.3 tablet
|
| Agree. Avoid reMarkable(tm). Hostile to the community and better
| options are out there or on the way including Boox, Onyx and the
| new Daylight Computer.
|
| https://daylightcomputer.com/product
|
| https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-note-taking-tablet/
|
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| adopt: Blank Spaces app
|
| No need to pay money on ios. Clear off all the icons and when you
| need something swipe down in the middle of the screen and open
| search or swipe over to the alphabetical listing. Windows Phone
| was way ahead of its time on this one.
|
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|
| assess: TypeScript - What does it buy me over JS?
|
| This one is a little bit flame bait... at the cost of a build
| step you get a much more reasonable development experience for JS
| targets with reliable types. The problem is smart people want to
| flex their brain a lot more than their restraint (where are my
| grug brains at?) and type astronauting makes the experience much
| worse. As with all things there is a balance however TS should be
| "Adopt".
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|
| hold: Zig - This looks like a dead-end for me
|
| I keep looking at Zig and playing with it but I am so productive
| with Go and Python for things that need to be fast enough Zig
| doesn't have much that I need. However Mitchell Hashimoto is
| using it to great success for his new MacOS terminal emulator
| which makes me think I just haven't tried using it in the
| appropriate domain... maybe a raytracer is in my future.
|
| https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
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| https://github.com/ghostty-org
| 8n4vidtmkvmk wrote:
| I was trying zig yesterday. There seems to be a bunch of churn
| in build.zig; changed APIs. ChatGPT wasn't able to help. Rocky
| start but I did eventually get GLFW running, and the c-interop
| seems good. Also got some freezing in my IDE maybe from ZLS. So
| it still seems a bit rough at the moment but I'm still
| optimistic about it for things like game dev and compiling to
| wasm.
| MisterKent wrote:
| Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH
| ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a
| very good balance of letting the community do weird things
| while they focus on their core product.
|
| I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is
| considering it.
| diggan wrote:
| > I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is
| considering it.
|
| I used to be a reMarkable owner (until I lost it :( ) and I
| agree that the devices are very user-friendly in terms of
| hackability and ability to use it long after the company
| itself is gone. Getting SSH access by flicking a toggle in
| the settings sounds like the opposite of "hostile to the
| community".
| leetrout wrote:
| A token of goodwill for compliance with GPL. If they
| actually cared about the community they would share the
| spec for Xochitl docs and such. Instead some blessed few in
| the discord know people at the company and get some info
| through back channels for the UI bits and the rest is
| cobbled together reverse engineering. Some people seem fine
| with that but coupled with their robo-law firm sending C&D
| takedowns to community sites where people share content
| they have created for reMarkable(tm) tablets and it left a
| bad taste in my mouth. Glad others have had better
| experiences.
| cooperadymas wrote:
| Are you sure you aren't confusing Remarkable with
| something else? I have never heard of them sending C&D
| letters, nonetheless to community sites.
|
| Searching for this I could find only a single example
| from 4 years ago where they sent a C&D to remarkable-
| explorer.com. Aside from the copyright issues, this site
| seemed to be using non-public APIs and asking the user to
| enter authorization tokens directly on it. I don't have
| all the facts but I'm not surprised this would be
| problematic.
| wonger_ wrote:
| Ghostty is cross-platform, but it feels extra nice on macOS.
| https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
| cooperadymas wrote:
| > Avoid reMarkable(tm). Hostile to the community
|
| As a long time member of the so-called "community" I have never
| once felt hostility from the company. Quite the opposite in
| fact.
|
| > > assess: TypeScript - What does it buy _me_ over JS?
|
| > This one is a little bit flame bait
|
| This is disingenuous and entirely unfair. The author very
| clearly indicated they wanted to assess whether it is
| beneficial for their own individual purposes. There was no
| intent to generalize and purport upon its general utility.
| bobnamob wrote:
| Furthermore, the author mentions ClojureScript earlier in the
| piece.
|
| I've not done much frontend work, but I'm not sure
| ClojureScript aficionados would generally feel that TS has
| much benefit over JS when CLJS is in the picture as well.
| Salt your JS to your own taste imo
| divan wrote:
| Boox also has 13" tablet, which is amazing for reading A4
| papers and can be used to work outside under direct sunlight (I
| use ssh+mosh+tailscale and bluetooth keyboard).
| philips wrote:
| I really like my Supernote A5X. I can use the whole thing
| offline. And I built an obsidian plugin
| https://github.com/philips/supernote-obsidian-plugin?tab=rea...
| dimitar wrote:
| I have a Boox Note Air 4C so here is the good:
|
| * I can comfortably read any PDF; I don't think the font is too
| tiny. This is the main reason I bought it for.
|
| * Android means great data support, I can open any format and I
| can even install the kindle app and read the books I purchased
| there.
|
| * Using the pen seems nice enough, I started doing some
| annotations although I didn't buy this device for that.
|
| * Nice way to sort of "airdrop" files from devices on the same
| network
|
| The bad:
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| * I am a bit unhappy with the battery life; I hope I will tune
| it at some point.
|
| * the screen is a little dark, so the "frontlight" needs to be
| on more often than a black and white e-ink device
|
| The weird:
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| * the built-in AI assistant is trained in the PRC and has quite
| interesting opinions on current events and recent history.
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Any good alternatives for "adopt: Blank Spaces app" on Android?
| mamoul wrote:
| Check Niagara Launcher:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launche...
| gandalfgeek wrote:
| Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in
| 2024?
| bachmeier wrote:
| It may not have been important or interesting to him, or maybe
| he just figured the 10-digit number of articles written on the
| topic in 2024 (most by LLMs) was enough.
| fogus wrote:
| LLMs have had very little influence on my programming so far.
| jwhitlark wrote:
| Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first
| entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The
| first comment in the video, etc.
|
| If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping,
| it would be fogus, of course.
| zem wrote:
| the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely
| tonymet wrote:
| I esteem & enjoy Requiem for a Dream, but I couldn't bear
| watching it again, despite a dozen tries. By that measure it's
| the best horror movie of all time.
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