birchb

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We’re one step closer to reading a developer’s mind(dohdolordollar.blogspot.com)
2 points by birchb 3y ago|1 comments
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by birchb 3y ago
Date 1.4.2023
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by birchb 5y ago
I had a look at this library today. Quote the author: "The script library is implemented entirely in Go, and does not require any external userland programs." Sorry but that's not scripting anymore. We all like using userland
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by birchb 5y ago
Orca is great fun. I was inspired to start write a derivative application - A live-coding logic simulator using the same TUI ideas. I've just got past the prototype-hackery stage and am using it to model a real piece of hardware. http
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by birchb 5y ago
Mac binary https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/releases/download/...
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by birchb 5y ago
Done
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by birchb 5y ago
No worries mate. Your point is basically 'What a fuss over a very simple bit of code.'? I'm as surprised as you are.
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by birchb 5y ago
did you try the '-format json' option?
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by birchb 5y ago
I love your enthusiasm, and thanks for the code. But 1) the above only works with sorted input and 2) adding it to find that would be like adding '-v' to 'cat' which as we know is considered harmful. http://ha
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by birchb 5y ago
Um you can get actual trees with graphviz, or my favourite, YeD. I will add an example of that. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/7
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by birchb 5y ago
Sure. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/6
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by birchb 5y ago
OK good idea, I was coming round to that myself. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/5
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by birchb 5y ago
I did not know that. But then it's BSD, right? http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ .
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by birchb 5y ago
I refer you to the answer I gave earlier.
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by birchb 5y ago
Grepping the _input_ is, like, Standard. Knowhatimean bruv?
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by birchb 5y ago
Sorry macos people, I don't own an Apple. (Not strictly true, I have an iMac rescued from a dumpster, but it's running Ubuntu now). Apparently greadlink is available https://stackoverflow.com/a/4031502 for yo
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by birchb 5y ago
Author here: Often I have to digest log files and lists of Azure resource names. I prefer to work with hierarchies of things, so I wrote this simple filter. Turns out to quite handy, especially when combined with awk and its friends.
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Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees(github.com)
333 points by birchb 5y ago|53 comments
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Show HN: Goyamp – The Macro Processor for YAML and JSON(github.com)
1 points by birchb 6y ago|0 comments
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by birchb 7y ago
Turing Complete
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by birchb 7y ago
These days devops workers often have no choice but to write scads of YAML for tools like GoCD, Concourse, K8s etc etc. To be efficient we turn to tools like Helm. But I recommend everyone write their own TC YAML tool - it does not take long
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by birchb 9y ago
I absolutely adore the ambiguity in this HN title. Perfectly crafted. Well done.
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by birchb 10y ago
ASCII was invented in 1963, so the author's statement that Telex was ASCII-based is probably wrong. Is the rest of the article also as inaccurate?
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by birchb 11y ago
I agree.
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by birchb 11y ago
"This is my bet: the age of dynamic languages is over. There will be no new successful ones." I wonder what Shira counts as "successful"? Popular? Sigh.
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by birchb 11y ago
Common Lisp was way too restrictive for me. I had to write my own language.