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One engine, many tools – Introducing Rubydex

frou_dh — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:55:53 +0000

Article URL: https://railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-one-engine-many-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785432

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by frou_dh in "My favorite keyboards"

frou_dh — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:24:29 +0000

IMHO the persistence of Model M (now Unicomp) worship is a meme. Yes a chunky Buckling Spring mechanism is a very unique and "fun" feel, but that doesn't mean it's actually good to do a lot of typing on in terms of ergonomics or speed. So what of it? It's a novelty item, not the ultimate keyboard.

New comment by frou_dh in "Regular expressions that work “everywhere”"

frou_dh — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:25:25 +0000

Grasping at straws, it's kinda convenient that ( and ) match literally if the text being searched is Elisp code!

New comment by frou_dh in "Om"

frou_dh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:08:29 +0000

I remember these guys from the glory days of the CrankyGeeks video podcast. John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley had a great double-act hosting that show.

New comment by frou_dh in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

frou_dh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:04:45 +0000

Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing:

- https://swiftpackageregistry.com

- https://swiftpackageindex.com

New comment by frou_dh in "Deno Desktop"

frou_dh — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:23:07 +0000

Even the later JavaFX was a tasteless exercise. I opened some apps and you could tell within 1 second that something was wrong because all the text was using fugly non-platform-native (or somehow screwed up) text rendering.

New comment by frou_dh in "The Raku Foundation is born"

frou_dh — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:07:25 +0000

> Any body who saw a Perl programmer do over a weekend, what they would take a year to do in their language(especially Java and Python)- had a deep rooted seething envy at Perl and Perl programmers. So they went around almost on religious crusade to have Perl gone. This was done entirely to crush competition. They just didn't want other people to wield a power they didn't have. Lisp has had a similar arc of development over the decades.

Isn't that the fate of the archetypical loser? To end up on the sidelines thinking "I'm actually the smartest and most powerful, the wider world just isn't capable of appreciating it".

I saw someone recently say something like... they wished contemporary Lisp people put anywhere near as much effort into creating lots of great software with Lisp as they do extolling Lisp.

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

frou_dh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:10:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-corner

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584135

Points: 471

# Comments: 285

New comment by frou_dh in "Nobody clicks share buttons"

frou_dh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:10:50 +0000

The tapestry of share buttons were certainly novel and interesting like 20 years ago. They may be lame and 99+% ignored now but it's been a slide to this state of affairs.

New comment by frou_dh in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

frou_dh — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:15:43 +0000

Real text lovers have an appreciation of typography and don't ignore the whole field and stay in the dirt with crude "monospace everything" approach.

Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years

frou_dh — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c202d0l92weo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340645

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by frou_dh in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

frou_dh — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:34:30 +0000

IIRC it seemed like that pilot was having some kind of nervous breakdown because he surreptitiously held back on the stick all the way from 38,000ft until the crash.

New comment by frou_dh in "Why TUIs are back"

frou_dh — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000

There's something disgusting about the use of characters for graphs/charts on a bitmapped monitor. Trust nerds to find a way to make stuff ugly!

New comment by frou_dh in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

frou_dh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:37:07 +0000

He's so charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-ZmuJixIg

New comment by frou_dh in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

frou_dh — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:08:33 +0000

AFAIK that setting is opt-in, at least in Bash.

New comment by frou_dh in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

frou_dh — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:53:29 +0000

We have to settle for the smiley face changing slightly.

New comment by frou_dh in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

frou_dh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:08:06 +0000

It's got to be somewhat depressing working on a household name product in its trashy downturn. Surely you can't have the pride in your work that an equivalent employee once would have.

New comment by frou_dh in "404 Deno CEO not found: Deno's decline and layoffs"

frou_dh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:19:18 +0000

I wonder about the timing in relation to the OpenAI acquisition of Astral this week. Was it a two-horse race to be acquired and then Deno got word that they were not the chosen one, and so said oh well, mass layoff it is?

BTW the Deno architects would contend that "mastering Deno" could never be a waste of time, because what you're mastering is to a large extent standards-based JS (in comparison to the APIs that came before).

New comment by frou_dh in "Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?"

frou_dh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:22:32 +0000

Yeah, that's pretty much tailor-made to be the official resource for an experienced programmer to get an overview of C++ as it stands. Fairly slim book so it's approachable.

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html

New comment by frou_dh in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

frou_dh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:52:18 +0000

It's abject hackery because such "comment" directives don't even necessarily have to be a comment to be active:

    const x = `This whole thing is
    a
    //go:generate worse-is-better
    multiline
    string literal`

A lot of people in this discussion are beating up Go for using syntactical comments for directives, but in reality the implementation is even less principled than that!