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New comment by pantulis in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"

pantulis — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:08:19 +0000

In hindsight, this sounds more reasonable in 2026 where graphical documentation is taken for granted. In those days I think anyone would have spooled the .ps to their nearest laser printer and begin building something quickly with it just to check the looks.

I remember following a "build your own text windowing system" tutorial printed in a hcontinous paper back then

New comment by pantulis in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"

pantulis — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:58:27 +0000

I find it amusing that the paper doesn't include any screenshots. Those were the days!

New comment by pantulis in "FrameBook"

pantulis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:16:38 +0000

> . i learned alot from this project, from how to solder,

This part is simply amazing, the "nothing is impossible" drive!

New comment by pantulis in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

pantulis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:49:10 +0000

Thanks for your answer, I understand you're correct. Also, as another counterargument, if a photon is scattered... is it the same photon or a different one? Your perspective on energy instead of particles is better.

New comment by pantulis in "Apple: Enough Is Enough"

pantulis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:02:06 +0000

Back in the day, in Operating System Design class I dared to suggest the teacher that for some obscure inode related problem the system should ask the user what to do.

His answer was "We are designing an operating system, not a messaging solution".

This was circa 30 years ago of course, and the essence and complexity of what an OS is today is different, but the idea still resonates in my head every time macOS deploys one of these prompts at me.

New comment by pantulis in "MacBook Neo"

pantulis — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:56:15 +0000

That's why I'm rocking a Scribe. Do not really care much about note taking but my poor eyesight welcomes the bigger font size.

New comment by pantulis in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

pantulis — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:24:12 +0000

Light from the sun that is reaching us now escaped the surface of the sun 8 minutes ago, yes.

But photons are generated in the core through nuclear reactions, where they take their sweet amount of thousands of years bouncing around until they get out.

New comment by pantulis in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

pantulis — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:05:39 +0000

When we got notifications through Growl.

New comment by pantulis in "Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All"

pantulis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:35:50 +0000

Have to love the tone of the article.

New comment by pantulis in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

pantulis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:37:02 +0000

Thanks for poiting this out

New comment by pantulis in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

pantulis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:34:04 +0000

Builtwith reports this website is built with Framer, is this an official EU asset? If that's the case it's also a declaration of intentions.

New comment by pantulis in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

pantulis — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:06:43 +0000

... but it seems most casualties in this accident are the passengers in the first carriages of the second train.

You never know.

New comment by pantulis in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

pantulis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:44:00 +0000

Adobe could have benefited from doing this acquisition but they can be somewhat forgiven as they are already pushing Edge Delivery Services which is based in NextJS although it's a different approach. Combined with the Universal Editor they have a solid headless authoring setup for enterprise CMS.

But I really feel like Akamai is who dropped the ball here, this was a low hanging fruit for them and they're lacking offering this capability to offer their corporate clients as they transition to full headless. Now it's going to be their competition (Cloudflare, even Fastly through Adobe & the EDS push) who will try to take a portion of their cake.

New comment by pantulis in "Apple Creator Studio"

pantulis — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:41:38 +0000

Well what I didn't receive for free is the 3 macs that have been running the same licensed product ;)

New comment by pantulis in "Apple Creator Studio"

pantulis — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:49:36 +0000

It's not outrageous, for sure, specially if you happen to have a use case for all the bundled apps. But things change if you consider that the one time payment for Logic Pro equals about 18 months of the subscription. In my case, I bought Logic Pro in 2013 for 180€. Obviously a subscription seems expensive no matter what the price is.

New comment by pantulis in "Can Bundler be as fast as uv?"

pantulis — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:54:43 +0000

> Ruby used to be cool around 2010, but it lost to better options.

I'd argue that it lost the cool kidz mindshare but not to better options. People jumped to Node.js because of async but in the end the relevant industry change was the switch to SPA based architectures in the web space. Rails never embraced that approach and hence lost the popularity.

Jump 15 years ahead, and now the Enterprise world is built with React and Angular apps, not with JSPs or Spring MVC apps. Can Rails do a comeback? Who knows, but it's still a bona fide web development stack with terrific productivity gains for those who want to optimize that metric.

New comment by pantulis in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

pantulis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:14:40 +0000

This! It’s of course a lock in, but a very important feature for governance, nonetheless.

New comment by pantulis in "Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies"

pantulis — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:43:05 +0000

Oh the reference to Rails made me ponder how long have we come after the initial Joyent Slingshot vision for desktop apps based on, yes you guessed, Ruby on Rails.

New comment by pantulis in "Ruby Symbols"

pantulis — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:12:36 +0000

> Dang it, Ruby. You never cease to amaze me!

This has been true forever.

New comment by pantulis in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"

pantulis — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:34:45 +0000

Yes, Zen is extremely good at that. Alas, as it is using Firefox Sync it doesn't sync your sidebar states (yet).