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New comment by florianist in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

florianist — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:32:30 +0000

The paragraph on the website inviting us to switch to rmux from tmux claims that tmux is programmed in C++. tmux is made in C.

New comment by florianist in "The C3 Programming Language"

florianist — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:41:10 +0000

In the current C standard that's unreachable() from

New comment by florianist in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

florianist — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:18 +0000

So many comments are very negative here. I'm currently using a Pi 4 as my home desktop computer and I will probably replace it with a Pi 500+. I really want to avoid a pre-installed Windows, want my computer to be 100% silent, low energy, and I fancy the computer-is-in-keyboard feel. Sure, I might get a mini PC for a bit cheaper but I like to support Raspberry Pi. The products are easy to get into, have great and lasting software support, and a large community behind it.

New comment by florianist in "YAD: display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line"

florianist — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:07:25 +0000

Or for those won't don't want to install dialog, just do your ui forms directly from the shell: https://github.com/polijan/sourcedialog

New comment by florianist in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

florianist — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:39:39 +0000

Sure. Here's a very quick translation of the first part (up to "people share songs"):

toki pona li suli mute tawa mi. mi kepeken ona tan tenpo lili. sina wile lukin anu kute e toki pona uta lon la, o lukin e lipu Jutu mi lon ni: https://www.youtube.com/@janPolijan. toki pona li pana e musi toki. taso pali pi kama sona li pona li sama ala toki ante. pilin ike li lon ala tan ni: sona pi nimi ale en sona pi nasin toki li wile e pali lili. kin la, nasin kalama pi toki pona li pona li suwi, la uta sina li ken ala pana e kalama ike. kulupu pi toki pona li kama suli li pali mute. jan li sitelen e lipu li pana e kalama musi.

New comment by florianist in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

florianist — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:36:17 +0000

a! toki sina la, mi pilin pona.

New comment by florianist in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

florianist — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 04:56:16 +0000

I don't have ads, so you can safely check the whole channel. If one wishes to preview one single video, check rather this one as it's shorter and has actually better spoken toki pona, plus subtitles are available in English (and other langs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGx_gjTqEyU

New comment by florianist in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

florianist — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 01:22:21 +0000

There are common forms for certains words of course, but no lexicalisation. In Toki Pona, you're not adding words, set phrases, to the language's lexicon. So there are no compound words that would be set in stone and things can and do change depending on the situation. Let's take an example: coffee. The word "telo" is some form liquid or water, so coffee could simply be just telo (if you're in context where it's clear), but you may just add it's the dark/black liquid ("telo pimeja"), or the strong hot drink ("telo wawa seli"), or the liquid of no sleep ("telo pi lape ala"), or there are many other possibilities depending on what's the important aspect you emphasize and how brief or precise you want/need to be (if you need a lot of precision, you'll end up doing several sentences, but you'll get there).

New comment by florianist in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

florianist — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:52:12 +0000

I love Toki Pona and have been using it for a little while. You can check my YouTube channel if you wish to see/hear it live in action: https://www.youtube.com/@janPolijan Toki Pona gives you the fun part of using a foreign language, but it skips the boring part of having to learn a ton a grammar and vocabulary. And the phonology is delightfully simple, so you won't have a bad accent. There's a growing and very active community around it and people write and share novels and songs. But it's also useful just as a personal language because it's really like a game for your mind. After a while, you reach proficiency and then fluency and it gets even better. It is absolutely possible to explain fairly complex things if you continue to push it. You obviously wouldn't want to do engineering in Toki Pona, but explaining quite complex topics is absolutely possible if you really desire (for example, someone has put a YouTube video explaining non-euclidean geometry in Toki Pona). One final thing: contrary to popular belief, Toki Pona is not designed to be as minimal as possible (the "tuki tiki" conlang with only 39 words modifies Toki Pona and pushes towards true minimalism). Toki Pona sure is tiny, but it's mostly designed to be fun and retain expressiveness.

New comment by florianist in "Uthash – C macros for hash tables and more"

florianist — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:37:30 +0000

And this one may be even "better" :) https://github.com/tylov/STC

New comment by florianist in "A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier"

florianist — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:08:51 +0000

Before releasing a script, it's always a good idea to fix the errors reported by Shellcheck. There are several here. Also the script has a /bin/sh shebang and README says it's POSIX but it has bashims (for example "echo -e" will fail in default /bin/sh in Debian).