A woman who can smell Parkinson’s is inspiring research into diagnosis (2020)
Enlarge this image Leonardo Santamaria for NPR For most of her life, Joy Milne had a superpower that she was totally oblivious to. She simply had no idea she possessed an utterly amazing, slightly terrifying biological gift that scientists would itch to study. In fact, Joy probably would have stayed oblivious if it hadn’t been […]
Smart Terminals: Personal Computing’s True Origin? – The History of How We Play
During the creation of Episode 6 of Play History, I launched deep into the subject of computer monitors. In addition to hosting many computer games, the early computer monitors served as a bridge between the timesharing model of personal computing and the microcomputer revolution in the mid-1970s. This woefully underlooked period sent me wildly off-course […]
Oink: An API for PHP in a single file
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Show HN: 10 times faster LLM evaluation with Bayesian optimization
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Mastering Programming – by Kent Beck (2016)
FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK This was one of those posts that I threw together, thought nothing of, & then it blew up. Until recently this was my most-read post ever. By Arne Hückelheim – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23003609 From years [decades] of watching master programmers, I have observed certain common patterns in […]
Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative
Hi HN! I’m Kam, the founder and one of the authors of Linen. Today, we are launching Linen.team (https://linen.team/), a lightweight threaded messaging app for your team. Modern workplace messaging apps (like Slack) are based on IRC, which is great for small groups, but as it scales, breaks down quickly: you either get overwhelmed by […]
Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
The W3C has a page with the original WWW proposal from Tim Berners-Lee. One of the downloads says The original document file (I think – I can’t test it) The “I can’t test it” made me sad. There are two other files (an RTF version and an HTML version generated in 1998 from the original […]
Implement Tcl in Tcl (2007)
Maybe someone has already done this. But the question in my mind is how much of Tcl can be implimented in Tcl itself. Obviously you can’t implement system calls in Tcl, but you could implement just about everthing else. What commands/parts of Tcl would be in the minimal set? Earl Johnson Minimal set “set” both […]
Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine
I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchronicity: async functions can yield a type called Pending when awaiting some async action, while pure, synchronous functions can yield Never, indicating […]
A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow
I’m really careful with my commits, I use to make it atomic and try to make in independent. With a good git knowledge I’m able to squash the commits that are related and keep branches with atomic changes, like legos bricks, but you need to do magic with git. Love this tool! 9:07 PM · […]