xrayspec

7 ms·

1.
by xrayspec 7y ago
IMO the big news in this release is the relicensing from LGPL to dual Apache / MIT. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/11/completing-racket-s-rel...
2.
by xrayspec 7y ago
Jaron Lanier challenged Kevin Kelly to produce evidence that his theory was true, which AFAICT never emerged, so by Kelly's own terms, "I surrender the case". https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-case-agains&#x
3.
by xrayspec 7y ago
Disagree on Stack Exchange, I'm afraid. It's a vampire that has pushed the costs of its service down on unpaid contributors (esp members of open-source communities) and privatized the benefits. Similar to Medium, that's time
4.
by xrayspec 7y ago
Riposte? https://docs.racket-lang.org/riposte/
5.
Typography 2020: rating the web design of the presidential campaigns(practicaltypography.com)
6 points by xrayspec 7y ago|0 comments
6.
by xrayspec 8y ago
The author acknowledges that other languages can be used for DSLs. He claims that Racket's hygienic macro system is the special feature that makes it superior for the task.
7.
by xrayspec 8y ago
IIUC Babel.js is essentially a fancy preprocessor for JS. So if by that analogy, you mean "can I use Racket to design my own notation that compiles to Python", yes of course.
8.
by xrayspec 8y ago
Also https://blog.racket-lang.org/
9.
by xrayspec 8y ago
> I don't use web fonts. Well, actually ... yes you do (Proxima Nova). Some of it is even thin! https://floobits.com/
10.
by xrayspec 8y ago
Respectfully dude, I clicked through to your sites because I was curious to see how you apply your own design advice. It seems that mostly, you don't. Your blog [1] even employs the monochrome, typo-centric style that Butterick seems t
11.
by xrayspec 8y ago
Butterick made his own programming language called Pollen [1] to publish this site. [2] Pollen is implemented in the Racket programming language. [3] He has another online book called Beautiful Racket [4] about language-oriented programming
12.
by xrayspec 8y ago
"on a public webpage" = "as difficult as possible"? Also, author addresses these objections: https://beautifulracket.com/why-you-should-pay.html
13.
RacketCon 2017: livestream from Seattle(youtube.com)
7 points by xrayspec 9y ago|1 comments
14.
by xrayspec 9y ago
This is great. I would love to see the source for this. Would you consider posting it?
15.
by xrayspec 10y ago
Oh please. Jeff Jones knew what he was signing up for. To paraphrase Chris Rock, "that Uber didn't go crazy; that Uber went Uber"
16.
by xrayspec 10y ago
Racket is also a great environment for making languages. See, e.g.: http://beautifulracket.com
17.
by xrayspec 11y ago
> just a string-based templating system Not sure what you mean. Pollen is derived from Racket's text-based DSL, Scribble. Like Scribble, Pollen lets you embed Racket-style S-expressions in your documents. Moreover, Pollen documents
18.
by xrayspec 11y ago
Supports MathJax http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/mini-tutorial.ht...
19.
by xrayspec 11y ago
MZ Scheme was a precursor to Racket. Same people, AFAIK same core codebase. http://docs.racket-lang.org/mzscheme
20.
by xrayspec 11y ago
Where do you see this? On my machine it's not hyphenated
21.
by xrayspec 11y ago
> You still have to roll your own CSS and any JavaScript True, though you can automate those files (and any other text-based files) with Pollen as well, so you can use common functions and data across all of them. Also, here's the p
22.
by xrayspec 12y ago
Ordinal and cardinal exponentiation use similar notation, but they don't work the same way. Though it's common to see statements like "ω is the same as \aleph_0," it's misleading, because 2^ω = ω, and thus has lesse
23.
by xrayspec 12y ago
> the word for this archaic job. This person did layout after the articles had been typeset. pasteup