So name it after yourself, or give it a single-letter name (that seems equally common based on looking at /r/compilers or /r/ProgrammingLanguages).

I named my toy "s", s for Steve, so I could do both at the same time!

I've been working on a linux/amd64 compiler for a simple scripting language, it barely seems worth discussing as many people have created their own languages, and it's done just for learning/fun rather than in an attempt to be serious.

But seeing the projects other people work on is fascinating, and always interesting. (Ignoring all the "agent .." stuff, I can never be too excited about.)

It might have changed again now, but that was the point I deleted my account. The pricing list seems to imply a limit on the local-parts for a domain, though ..

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Subscription#corePlans

For me, with a similar wildcard setup, it became something I wasn't willing to spend money on. I work on the basis that accounts are compromised and if the company is large enough I'll see it in the news. Strong passwords, and a password-database is the best I can manage.

I'd get 10+ tabs all stuck in a "loading" state, and even force-reloading wouldn't make their contents match the address-bar.

For example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hughes

I could have gone all out writing standard library routines for opening files, running shell commands, coding strstr, strcpy, and similar. And to be honest I did implement some things I didn't need as part of the learning process (for example print(getenv("HOME")) works). But I soon realized I needed some example programs to test things and show off.

So of course the first real program I implemented was a brainfuck interpreter. Which means my language is now, indirectly, turing complete!

My early versions took 9 minutes to output the famous mandelbrot program, so I had to make a bunch of optimizations, and later implemented support for switch/case statements to speed things up. Now I can generate the same output in two minutes - so room for improvement, but also a good bit of progress!

Cheating by implementing another language in my own was very very satisfying. Though of course this is all for fun/learning and not intended to be used seriously by anybody, not even myself!

https://github.com/skx/s-lang

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https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist

I found the compiler collection here useful too:

https://github.com/davidly/cpm_compilers

Though I guess some of these things won't run under the linked emulator, because they use SUBMIT and require more than a single-executable to be run.

(That's the reason why my own emulator used the CCP/"shell" rather than just limiting itself to running FOO.COM)

But there was also a brief period of time when you'd get a vinyl instead. I remember loading games from those a couple of times, though the tape deck was the standard approach and much more common.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...

"I saw your comment about GOLANG and I thought you might be interested in our TOKEN DROP FOR FREE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS".

Spam from YC companies happens now and again, from other scraped content regularly. I've started making GDPR personal information requests in retaliation; they don't do anything useful but I figure tying up a "real human" for a few minutes at least makes their spam slightly more expensive for them.

Dr Yueh was not a mentat, but a suk doctor who was subject to conditioning. (Which was broken by the Piter de Vries, via the pain amplifiers applied to his wife, Wanna.)

Paul himself was being trained to be a mentat, and there were no hints of conditioning there, neither with Paul, Hawat, or de Vries (albeit he was described as a "twisted mentat", whatever that means).

You can't ride on a single game for long, and if the next one goes badly half the company will get fired. Not true of the bigger studios, but of course not everybody works in those.

I have friends who work in gaming, and it's a regular thing for studios to form with a great game, go bust a year or three later, and then a new studio get formed with largely similar staff.

Developers move between the same companies around and around again. The lack of stability is a real problem, especially with increasing use of "AI".

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Sure it's low-hanging fruit, but if you're looking at the code it's good to have the comments be readable and not full of typos.

(That said this was a few years ago, and there were no LLMs at that point. I didn't go out of my way to make trivial contributions, but I figured since I saw the "problems" I should submit a patch to fix them.)

It supports strings, integers, and floating-point operations, and is complete enough that I could implement a brainfuck interpreter in it. But otherwise it is very definitely a toy.

https://github.com/skx/s-lang/

It was fun writing out the assembly, e.g. writing the "standard library" functions to implement "getenv", etc.