tnelsond4

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by tnelsond4 16d ago
Yeah, 100mb is not a bragging point. That's the size of a full web browser engine
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by tnelsond4 16d ago
Pretty sure tcl apps look ugly as sin... Python's tkinter is all tcl underneath.
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by tnelsond4 19d ago
After trying to use libreoffice for typesetting and it being a pain to get the styles and formatting right I switched to Typst. Pretty impressed by it's Khmer language support. A lot lighter than latex or sile.
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by tnelsond4 19d ago
I just use tsv. No quoted fields required because none of my data ever has tabs
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by tnelsond4 1mo ago
Have you ever noticed that nothing is actually ever better in the app. In the web browser I can change to desktop mode and access all the features they don't have in the app, also in the browser I can block ads.
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by tnelsond4 1mo ago
And now all search engines suck because they want you to use AI rather than finding direct sources.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
I also first used Linux via knoppix around 2004. Great introduction. Though my big sister said it was difficult to install it to the hard drive because it's meant to be a live cd, but she managed to do it, .
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
Knoppix used to have a really good desktop environment with effects and games. I think it had KDE with compiz-fusion. That was awesome. Now it's just bland lxde.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
Probably. But at least it's useful and runs locally. Better than all the predatory apps that you have to download 100mbs to do something this website can do instantly without downloading anything or sending anything to a server.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
Yeah, now anyone can write really long impressive code with a sophisticated backdoor by using AI. Can't trust anything anymore. (Not that I ever did trust npm)
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
I'm amazed by how in-depth the documentation is. Usually projects struggle to get decent docs. (Unless the docs are LLM generated). I'm not sure what's better, the design or the docs. Like you said in your backstory, it'
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
So you used rust to write a better rust? I'm just kidding. Looks like a real interesting language with some good features without being verbose or ugly. The backstory is interesting, though I wish it covered more the rationale behind t
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
Very interesting and polished. I see that it's got a regex engine written in Pilang as well. I'm curious if there's any benchmarks or comparisons. I'd like to see how big the runtime is, etc.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
With a 17kb jbig2 decoder all you need is a few one-bit images (a page of a book scan) for it to save bandwidth. With a 60kb codec2 decoder you need about 2 minutes of audio to start saving. But the target is dictionary apps with thousands
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
I think you mean Ed, the standard editor.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
http://Bellard.org is peak web design. Change my mind.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
You can also get really small file sizes by ignoring frameworks and porting unsupported codecs to wasm. I ported jbig2 (17kb uncompressed) and codec2 (60kb uncompressed) to wasm which enables me to use really small image and audio files in
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
I was so disappointed that Ghostty doesn't properly render Khmer text. Abugidas are important and you have to be able to render the symbols non-linearly. Cosmic term is the only terminal I've seen that actually works. But it'
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
Oop is just Unix philosophy misapplied. Unix philosophy is that each program does one thing and you chain them together. In OOP you have each class do one thing, but at that scale it can become very messy.
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
The whole period of Obama's presidency was also skipped. The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, it's quite odd that it wasn't included in Trump's Muslim ban. Obama's administration was the one that ma
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
39kb includes the zstd decoder which is statically compiled into it. I'm not targeting microcontrollers, but I am targeting smartphones in areas with bad internet connections, so every kilobyte saved is nice. I also just like to optimi
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by tnelsond4 3mo ago
If it uses indexedb under the hood, indexedb is ridiculously slow on first write but subsequent loads are very fast, if you're loading data you would have to load it via some other method first before putting it in indexedb, in order t
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
I was using the original zstd rust crate for my web app, but I couldn't get my module any smaller than 150kb, but when I switched to C for web app I was able to do a whole lot of optimizing and culling until I got it down to 39kb. I wa
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
I too love meta. My feed is only my friends and people I follow. It's definitely not 90% sponsored posts.
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
With the sans serif font I assumed it was someone complaining that Weird Al Yankovic was normal now or changing his name.
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
This isn't just a decompilation, this is a full port. Even supports Android.
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
iOS doesn't allow for native code execution (or JIT compilers) in apps like Android does (they don't like anything that could be used for sideloading) so the termux equivalents are ridiculously slow. I tried using ffmpeg on someon
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
If you get an Android you can use termux and do literally anything. I like to write websites, write newsletters in vim and run a jekyll instance, transcode video with ffmpeg, etc.
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
I use dwm and brave and 10 tabs or so and I'm usually at about 2-3gb of RAM used.
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by tnelsond4 4mo ago
Inspired by BusyBox 9 years ago I wrote a multicall binary that you rename and manipulate to solve puzzles and learn to use the shell in the process. I should do more with it. https://github.com/tnelsond/learn-linux-com

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