Eric Lengyel

ericlengyel.bsky.social

21 October 2026 08:39

Radical Pie handles equations brilliantly but still needs Word for a document's main text. That comes with annoying problems that will never be fixed. For years, I've dreamt of writing the whole word processor with the same level of craftmanship, and now that is going to happen.

Matt Godbolt

matt.godbolt.org

18 October 2026 18:49

Today I learned that if I give my procedurally-generated js functions proper names in my BBC Micro emulator (one for each 6502 instruction)... I get like a ~10% speedup! Was: poking `.name` on the `Function`, now `new Function("return function ${name}() { ...body...}")();` ...

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tsoding.bsky.social

17 October 2026 07:57

A lot of shit we are dealing with in the modern computer systems is an adversarial complexity that serves no purpose except making things harder for the benefit of the system's owners. The main problem is that lot of people believe this complexity is necessary.

alex 🍂

paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net

14 October 2026 19:20

actually its called "the unix philosophy"

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tsoding.bsky.social

06 October 2026 17:17

I like the self-aware slogan of CMake