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vitalnodo
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  1. Can you recall the link?
  2. As an alternative to Overleaf, I found Crixet to be quite useful. It appears to be based on WASM and has fewer usage restrictions.
  3. Another potentially interesting project is zigx, an X11 client library for Zig applications:

    https://github.com/marler8997/zigx

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPWFLkHRIAQ

    Compared to libX11, it avoids dynamic dependencies, uses less memory, and provides better error messages.

  4. I’m wondering what’s the proper way to draw Venn diagrams. I’ve seen that Graphviz has a “nice to have” mention about them, and there are a few simple JS libraries - mostly for two sets. Here’s also my own attempt using an LLM [1].

    But maybe someone knows a more general or robust solution - or a better way to achieve this? In the future, I’d like to be able, for example, to find the intersection between two Venn diagrams of three sets each etc.

    [1] https://vitalnodo.github.io/FSLE/

  5. Can you share the link? I wonder also whether it uses comptine features.
  6. There are many other so-called models of computation that are useful for representing ideas such as actor models, abstract rewriting systems, decision trees, and so on. Without them, you might feel that something is missing, so relying on assembly alone would not be enough.
  7. I found out about milk.com when I was thinking about how to make an Android app completely from scratch (assembling DEX bytes from zero, kind of like writing an assembler for the Dalvik VM). That’s when I came across the author of the DEX format, Dan Bornstein — and I was surprised he actually owns a domain like that.
  8. There is an existing concept called an exokernel. Moreover, I think Zig could be very suitable for this, because it already encourages passing allocators to functions to make memory allocation explicit. Recently, I/O has been (and is still being) reworked in a similar way.

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