Notices by Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)

We had to say goodbye to Gummy Bear (2008–2024) earlier this week. He was the first dog my wife and I rescued together, and we were so happy with him that we've since adopted four more Pomeranians. I'm glad we got to spend more than a decade with him, and that he made it to the ripe old age of 16. I'll miss him.

@pinskia the x86_32 build does still use GCC 2.95 to maintain bincompat with Intel BeOS R5!

let's try posting from a parallel timeline

Haiku already gets +10 points over 99% of X11 based desktop environments for having correct Macintosh-flavored shortcut keys

…and it's not only BeOS fan fiction! Haiku's got some pretty interesting OS design stuff going on with its package management system. When a package gets dropped into certain blessed folders, their dependencies are automatically resolved and their contents are overlain read-only into the filesystem. The bootloader keeps track of system revisions and lets you easily boot into a previous configuration too. Like a modular version of the APFS system/data volume split https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/develop/packages/Infrastructure.html

@inthehands "I heard Google's writing 25% of their code with AI now,"

My trashcan’s internal speaker got knocked loose or something so everything rattles. On the plus side, it now boots with the quad damage noise

@justkwin being outside of the EU, Switzerland still uses the franc as the unit of execution

if you think about it, 100% of text typed on an iPhone is AI generated,

now that the "m4" imac is out, i can finally share some exciting news. we're migrating the Xcode build system to autoconf

Reading Cong Ma et al's "Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly" paper from OOPSLA, and it's interesting how often this dynamic scope -> lexical scope progression happens in programming language design https://2024.splashcon.org/details/splash-2024-oopsla/113/Lexical-Effect-Handlers-Directly

getting sorta mixed signals about how on fire my bebox is

@inthehands @quephird You definitely should check Decker out too! It's a pretty full-featured HyperCard successor that can deploy to the web and standalone native apps, and is designed to support reusable components and be approachable for non- or beginning programmers (much like HyperCard was)

@inthehands @quephird that's too bad because the APL family is pretty interesting IMO. it'd be cool to see a variant that used a more approachable character set. Lil (the language used by Decker) does take some ideas from array languages but is more traditional-ish

@quephird the kids have to learn about m4 sooner or later

@steve @fay59 society if CPUs and the C programming language defined signed division to round towards -∞

i think this one deserves a "finally". we're thinking about fixed-size arrays in swift https://forums.swift.org/t/vector-a-fixed-size-array/75264

@jrose @rjmccall @graydon seems like an open question how to have runtime reflection but also have proper localized modularity

glad to see people still like this dumb image I made. for the record, couldn’t have done it without the fine folks of cohost https://cohost.org/jckarter/post/4273322-empty

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