Hacker News: asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=asicspHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:03:16 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"]]>There's a wiki page with links to plenty of resources: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap

]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:57:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833399asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833399https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833399<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"]]>I use xfce because it is stable, simple and lightweight. Perhaps I don't know what I'm missing but I'm very happy with it.

]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:04:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289859asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289859<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)"]]>See also this quiz: https://fstrings.wtf/

]]>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:39:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970490asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970490https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970490<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"]]>This month I release an updated version of my "Practice Python Projects" book: https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/

Next, I'm working on a TUI app (using Textual) for board games like Tic Tac Toe and Connect Four. These will also have a modified rule that requires forming a square instead of a line.

]]>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:36:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707864asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707864https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707864<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "PEP 798 – Unpacking in Comprehensions"]]>>the syntax for nested list comprehensions has a rather... incomprehensible order

I remember reading a blog post pointing out that the for-loop order stays the same between comprehensions and normal nested code. You write the outer loop first.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:09:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644410asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644410<![CDATA[PEP 798 – Unpacking in Comprehensions]]>Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0798/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643476

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:20:29 +0000https://peps.python.org/pep-0798/asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643476https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643476<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Writing toy software is a joy"]]>Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284291 (117 points | 8 days ago | 28 comments)

Seems like the link changed, and thus not caught by the dupe detector.

]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:34:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367334asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367334https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367334<![CDATA[Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about drivers or USB]]>Article URL: https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364713

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:41:21 +0000https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364713<![CDATA[Programming Beyond Practices (2016) [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://notes.skillstopractice.com/pbp.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254885

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:56:27 +0000https://notes.skillstopractice.com/pbp.pdfasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254885https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254885<![CDATA[Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system]]>Article URL: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592

Points: 668

# Comments: 273

]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:06:28 +0000https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdownasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"]]>I wrote interactive TUI apps with exercises for Linux CLI tools, coreutils, grep, sed and awk: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps

]]>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:20:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132807asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132807<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"]]>See also this open source version inspired by that site: https://github.com/daquino94/linux-path

]]>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:16:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132785asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132785https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132785<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules"]]>Previous discussion with patterns in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974534

]]>Sat, 10 May 2025 14:58:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946176asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946176https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946176<![CDATA[Minimal IRC server from scratch in Python]]>Article URL: https://log.schemescape.com/posts/diy/irc-server-in-python.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769358

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:55:32 +0000https://log.schemescape.com/posts/diy/irc-server-in-python.htmlasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769358<![CDATA[Regex Isn't Hard (2023)]]>Article URL: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2023/07/11/regex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750314

Points: 75

# Comments: 97

]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:35:34 +0000https://timkellogg.me/blog/2023/07/11/regexasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750314<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim"]]>See also: "Where Vim Came From" https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.htm...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696023 (420 points | Aug 6, 2018 | 259 comments)

]]>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:39:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734046asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734046<![CDATA[Parser Combinators Beat Regexes]]>Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/parser-combinators-beat-regexes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43628771

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:00:23 +0000https://entropicthoughts.com/parser-combinators-beat-regexesasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43628771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43628771<![CDATA[Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system]]>Article URL: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564649

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:10:12 +0000https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdownasicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564649<![CDATA[New comment by asicsp in "Go Optimization Guide"]]>This might help: https://pythonspeed.com/datascience/

]]>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:27:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543139asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543139https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543139<![CDATA[Building a search engine from scratch]]>Article URL: https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503161800-search-engine-intro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531923

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:46:23 +0000https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503161800-search-engine-intro/asicsphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531923