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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
Original EnglishSo instead, I tried my best to help by reporting bugs.
The short, happy reign of CD-ROM
Original EnglishI used to get calls all the time, asking for some sort of hardware support.
Stop Writing REST API Clients
Original EnglishFirst: the ruleset, ensuring it's 100% to spec lest a client fail.
LINUX is obsolete (1992)
Original English" Things like paradigmatic ways of doing open source software development took 20 years to dominate because the longevity and applicability of the more abstract …
Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
Original EnglishI use tempo[1] which again was one I landed on because pretty much all the other clients didn't support folder lookup either (I think dsub …
Go's Concurrency Examples in Java 19
Original EnglishI actually maintain a few multi platform kotlin things that support co-routines and they work great on both the jvm and in a browser.
Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures
Original EnglishI'm not saying that memory unsafety isn't a problem, but if you really want to make software better, you should address the biggest problems first.
I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?
Original EnglishIt took me 5 days to learn the language enough to do so and to write the entire tool, at which point I "got it".
SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo
Original EnglishI also use it extensively in unit tests (often creating and destroying in-memory databases hundreds of times during just a couple of seconds of tests).