1. cutler Jan 5, 2026 parent

   ... and is built with Next.js including no less than 12 enormous x-font-woff2 chunks of data at the top of the source code and another big __NEXT_DATA__ JSON chunk at the bottom. Hardly lean, vanilla HTML and CSS.
2. cutler Dec 26, 2025 parent

   MVT for testing mobile spyware? There are whole sectors of industry, such as cybersecurity, where Python shines and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.
3. cutler Dec 26, 2025 parent

   Try Clojure. Macros make method_missing look primitive.
4. cutler Dec 15, 2025 parent

   Sounds like Scala type fetishism all over again.
5. cutler Dec 3, 2025 parent

   iWeb was an utter monstrosity. Worse than MS Front Page, which I didn't think was possible.
6. cutler Nov 18, 2025 parent

   Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.
7. cutler Nov 1, 2025 parent

   "We're only making plans for Nigel" (XTC, 1979)
8. cutler Nov 1, 2025 parent

   Teach your kids how life is about getting something for nothing. Great parenting.
9. cutler Oct 29, 2025 parent

   I look forward to another of Sam's brilliant creations. It's a shame Overtone was abandoned as I think Clojure is the perfect language for this type of project.
10. cutler Oct 29, 2025 parent

    Smart fridge. Get a life.
11. cutler Oct 20, 2025 parent

    MTBF?
12. cutler Oct 20, 2025 parent

    Yes, I remember when Kubernetes hit the scene and it was only used by huge companies who needed to spin-up fleets of servers on demand. The idea of using it for small startup infra was absurd.
13. cutler Oct 9, 2025 parent

    I can just see it now - Trump, Netanyahu and Zuckerborg teaming up to provide Gazans with VR headsets running videos of virtually reconstructed Palestine. Genocide, what genocide?
14. cutler Oct 8, 2025 parent

    HarmonyoS has started the ball rolling.
15. cutler Sep 7, 2025 parent

    It's simple - stop using AWS ... or Azure ... or ... Follow DHH and learn to manage your own boxes.
16. cutler Sep 1, 2025 parent

    If Edge is built on Chromium doesn't that put Chrome's effective market share at 82%?
17. cutler Sep 1, 2025 parent

    Unfortunately in the case of Palestine Britain merely handed over the baton to an even more hideous imperialist monster - the U.S.A. - which has reverted to Napoleonic levels of barbarity. Imperialism is alive and well in 2025.
18. cutler Aug 8, 2025 parent

    Implicit $_ , regex wizardry and The Monastery. I miss those days. Perl had culture like its successor Ruby and unlike its soulless cousin Python.
19. cutler Aug 7, 2025 parent

    Craigslist and Amazon's secret sauce was Perl.
20. cutler Jun 14, 2025 parent

    It's a short walk from Facebook to Palantir, literally and metaphorically. Meta staffing for a long time has been packed with IDF operatives and AIPAC goons. All hail our not-so-new tech overlords next time you watch footage of a block in Gaza being "precison" targeted, taking out the whole extended family of an AI-generated target.
21. cutler May 15, 2025 parent

    Definitely the most influential for me along with Larry Wall's "Programming Perl".
22. cutler May 2, 2025 parent

    Love the Accept-only cookie notice. A real trust builder.
23. cutler Apr 21, 2025 parent

    Clojure has pipeline functions -> and ->> without resorting to OO dot syntax.
24. cutler Apr 11, 2025 parent

    Watch Rich Hickey's early Clojure videos and be blown away.
25. cutler Mar 8, 2025 parent

    The JVM now has virtual threads so Elixir's days as the only game in town for massive parallel computing may be numbered.
26. cutler Mar 3, 2025 parent

    Much as I loved Perl when I started with it back in 2000 CGI.pm was pretty hacky with new vulns popping up every week. It's creator, Lincoln Stein was, however, one of the stable of Perl Jedi and he did a sterling job of keeping it patched with the help, if I remember, of Randall Schwartz. Them were th' days. CGI::Application was an improvement and my mainstay until the arrival of PSGI and Plack which paved the way for frameworks such as Dancer and Mojolicious.
27. cutler Mar 3, 2025 parent

    Why stop there? Why not add interfaces, OO and design patterns while we're at it? Then CSS will be a "real" language.
28. cutler Mar 3, 2025 parent

    https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/199501735/microsoft...
29. cutler Mar 2, 2025 parent

    I gave up on C# and .Net after realising Microsoft is still the same old Microsoft I loathed back in the 90s and 00s when IE ruled the world. The emperor's new clothing is cross-platform .Net. The reality is that whilst .Net may well run on Linux and OS X the culture surrounding .Net hasn't changed. Case in point, I recently assessed .Net's leading CMS - Umbraco - for a project. Yes, it runs on Linux and OS X but can you use standard open source databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL with it? Sorry, not supported. You have to cough up for a MS SQL Server licence to get your open source CMS up and running. As if to rub salt in the wound Umbraco does support SQLite but wtf!? M$ culture will never change. Their lip service to Linux and open source only happened because their hand was forced after decades of pursuing the likes of Red Hat and SuSe with bogus patent lawsuits and secretly funding the notorious SCO in their Unix patent litigation.
30. cutler Feb 25, 2025 parent

    Clojure data structures implement structural sharing which minimises copying overhead.

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