Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation
A .NET source generator that executes methods at compile time and serializes their results to C# code. Comptime brings meta-programming capabilities to C#, enabling compile-time code generation and evaluation. Comptime allows you to mark methods with the [Comptime] attribute to have them executed during compilation. The return values are serialized into C# source code and […]
’LeBron James of spreadsheets’ wins world Microsoft Excel title
17 hours ago ShareSave Jamie McColganBBC News NI ShareSave MEWC Irishman Diarmuid Early emerged onto the HyperX arena in Las Vegas under the bright lights, dramatic music, and fanfare worthy of any major sporting final. Only this time, instead of a ball there was a keyboard and mouse, and the playing field a humble desktop […]
Programming languages used for music
4CED ABC This notation language was originally designed for transcribing Irish folk tunes, but has since evolved into a considerably richer language allowing, for example, polymetric output on multiple staves. This music notation format has the advantage of being extremely concise and fairly readable. AC Toolbox The AC Toolbox is a Macintosh PPC application to […]
Backing Up Spotify
annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning […]
Backing Up Spotify
annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning […]
Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US)
Depot is the fastest place to build software. Our platform integrates with services and tools like GitHub Actions, Docker, Bazel, Gradle, Turborepo, and more to make builds exponentially faster, saving our customers collective decades of build time every month. To support our rapidly growing customer base, we are looking for an Enterprise Support Engineer working […]
Big GPUs don’t need big PCs
Ever since I got AMD, Intel, and Nvidia graphics cards to run on a Raspberry Pi, I had a nagging question: What’s the point? The Raspberry Pi only has 1 lane of PCIe Gen 3 bandwidth available for a connection to an eGPU. That’s not much. Especially considering a modern desktop has at least one […]
OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat
Designing a simple battery holder in OpenSCAD. Earlier this year I designed a very basic box/organizer for AA and AAA batteries in Autodesk Fusion, making it parameterized so that by changing a few variables one could adjust the battery type/size, rows/columns, etc. This worked well, and after uploading it to Printables earlier today I realized […]
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
Dec 19, 2025 In addition to the VGA donut, I submitted two other entries in the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition, where you submit a ”tiny” ASIC design (room for about 4000 logic gates) that outputs 2-bit RGB to a VGA port and 1-bit audio to a speaker. One was a an old school C64/Amiga […]
Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study
CHICAGO — New study findings show that over 40% of drivers who died in motor vehicle collisions tested positive for active delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their system, with average blood levels far exceeding those considered to cause impairment. The research highlights a significant and persistent public health risk that is unchanged by the legalization of recreational […]