Hacker News: dotandimet

New comment by dotandimet in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

dotandimet — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:31:31 +0000

Looking into x402, and this is more about giving your agent a crypto wallet rather than a debit card.

New comment by dotandimet in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

dotandimet — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:16:10 +0000

In the QuickJS github repo there are commits from Charlie Gordon's github profile, https://github.com/chqrlie

New comment by dotandimet in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

dotandimet — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:34:24 +0000

I think most of the complaints about moment are that it's really big (because of i18n and timezones). Obsidian isn't a web page/app, so it doesn't need to optimize bundle size too much.

New comment by dotandimet in "Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN for the future"

dotandimet — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:25:43 +0000

The Gobi desert and the bottom of the ocean are far more hospitable for human colonization than anywhere off-planet (not to mention far, far cheaper and more energy-efficient)

New comment by dotandimet in "Mojo.js 1.0 – From Perl to Node.js"

dotandimet — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:50:07 +0000

I've worked in Bioinformatics companies for over 20 years, so a big chunk of my programming career was working with Perl, and I've loved, used and advocated for Mojolicious since I first ran across it. It taught me about API design and testing, contributing to open source, and participating in a generous tech community. It also taught me about not being dissuaded from making the right technical decision by popular opinion or ego (for example, breaking with the consensus around PSGI/Plack interoperability to build the entire framework around async IO).

As the world around me and I moved on from Perl, I've experienced a sense of mourning and loss. I love Mojolicious but I realize I'll probably never again write more than a one-liner in Perl (certainly not on the job; the majority of my current employer's codebase is actually in R). Furthermore, it's become clear that modern web development belongs inescapably to Javascript (and maybe Typescript); In this light, the release of mojo.js feels like an act of love and consolation, a wonderful gift to myself and all other bereft Polyglot Perl expatriates like me.

I offer my love and thanks to the mojo core team - long may you rock on!

New comment by dotandimet in "What Happened to Perl 7?"

dotandimet — Sun, 29 May 2022 10:43:48 +0000

Use the debugger: `python -mpdb` is a very similar experience to `perl -d`, so much so that it feels like a gift from an earlier perl-to-python emigrant.

(I showed my co-workers `perl -d`, they later discovered and showed me `python -mpdb`)

New comment by dotandimet in "Gentle, a Personal History"

dotandimet — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:47:52 +0000

It is specific to this page, and I suspect it is intended for stylistic effect, since he is discussing speech-recognition software.

BTW, scroll left on the header graphic!

New comment by dotandimet in "Gentle, a Personal History"

dotandimet — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:37:46 +0000

You seem to be unfamiliar with the idea of a *personal web site*.

Hosted on one's own domain, hosting whatever content one chooses to throw up on a server, intended primarily for oneself and one's acquaintances, these things are as old as the web and among its most fascinating treasures.

Notice how all the videos are also self-hosted.

New comment by dotandimet in "Gentle, a Personal History"

dotandimet — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:15:06 +0000

I like the line

> i was low on narrative and cash.

New comment by dotandimet in "Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)"

dotandimet — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:57:35 +0000

Bit of Deja Vu. 2005.

New comment by dotandimet in "Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]"

dotandimet — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:00:34 +0000

Just as insecure as Whatsapp, just far fewer users.

New comment by dotandimet in "CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream"

dotandimet — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:18:25 +0000

I think people who want a non-commercial RHEL will stay well away from any project with "Oracle" in the name.

New comment by dotandimet in "TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial"

dotandimet — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:42:44 +0000

My favorite Win32 tutorial is by Bartosz Milewski, I found it as a series of posts on his CodeCoop website (https://web.archive.org/web/20110129015721/http://www.codeco... ), that were later incorporated into his book "C++ in Action" (also findable online).

He uses C++ to wrap every resource acquisition in a constructor and every release of a resource in the corresponding destructor, so that by allocating new objects on the stack you avoid a whole swath of memory management errors. This was my first encounter with RAII (not sure if he calls it that), and it seems a particularly elegant way to write C++ and to make the raw Win32 C API a lot less scary.

New comment by dotandimet in "Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler"

dotandimet — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:36:56 +0000

Take it down another decade. Or two. There are versions of Old/Super/Hyper in libraries and frameworks for Java, Perl, Python... Once you get the Internet, the hype cycle keeps speeding up

A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization.ch

dotandimet — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:11 +0000

Article URL: http://datavisualization.ch/tools/selected-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939879

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Space for Thought

dotandimet — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:39:52 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.timbunce.org/2012/04/08/a-space-for-thought/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3822099

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Finding a lost dog's owner with Perl and WWW::Mechanize

dotandimet — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:27:06 +0000

Article URL: http://perlbuzz.com/2011/11/finding-a-lost-dogs-owner-with-perl-and-wwwmechanize.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286975

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dotandimet in "[dead]"

dotandimet — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:37:32 +0000

I wasn't sure, coderdude, but after glancing at the guidelines, I don't see any particular way in which it is glaringly inappropriate.

The privilege-denying attitude is more prevalent in HN comment threads than programming-language jingoism. It is also far more distasteful. And just as it is more effective to elevate the latter by showing some beautiful code than by arguing at length that (say) Perl is more than write-only line-noise, so I think it is more effective to see our reflexive arguments distilled into a series of cliche slogans plastered over the image of a douche than it is to read a lengthy and well-reasoned rant by an exasperated feminist.

So yes, honestly.

New comment by dotandimet in "[dead]"

dotandimet — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:44:57 +0000

Whenever an item about sexism in tech or harassment in conferences comes up on HN, this guy ownz the comments: http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/post/1600786503

New comment by dotandimet in "The 3 Programming Languages you need to Know"

dotandimet — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:47:31 +0000

I think the Hack-it-out and Bread and Butter languages are consistently transposed in this list.