Martin Vilcans

@ChristerEricson Thank you! It's a fun (not so) little machine.

Only saw this now, 6 years later, but fabulous demo Martin! The ABC80 was the first computer I coded on, in 1978. Z80, 16K RAM, 2nd best BASIC (after BBC Micro), b/w 72x80 “teletext” gfx (3x2 pixel char blocks) on 24x40 char screen. Crap, shrill sound chip. Excellent keyboard.

Wow, 15 years! But now you can find me at @vilcans" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fosstodon.org/@vilcans #MyTwitterAnniversary

@bartwerf In my timeline there are only posts about AI now. I'm not a big user of this kind of social media but Mastodon is pretty nice.

@vilcans for now. sure. until the next platform happens

Is anyone still here?

@mikaelemtinger Yes. Eating lacto-ovo-vegetarian is easy. Vegan is another level.

@vilcans That is true! Already eating way more plant-based food but I love dairy products.

I like to be vegan without having to be like-today-vegan. Gogo!

@hypp74 Email is super cool. A completely decentralized system based on standardized protocols. You could even host a server yourself if you wanted to!

@vilcans Email? Sounds very oldschool

Disabling email notifications from Twitter. For some reason half of it is now NSFW semi-nude content that never appears in my normal timeline.

@carnalizer Nice! I wonder what prompt he used. (:-)

@clairevo The idea of using the word debt, from economics, to describe systems that are difficult to work with, was originally to make it easier for non-techies to understand it. That didn't work out well.

An engineer one lamented to me: “we’ll never fix things, because a PM won’t ever prioritize tech debt over a feature. My response? “You’re right.” 🧵

I think it's great how we're using AI for things humans hate doing, like visual design, art, and voice acting, so that we're left doing only the fun stuff! like, methodically cleaning up slightly off work that someone else did

@_ahungry @ernerfeldt If you really worry that much about the disk space and RAM usage on your productions servers that 200 MB matters, doesn't the Node.js runtime and libraries use more than that?

@vilcans @ernerfeldt Try the minimal rust "rocket" setup - it's mostly cargo deps that get shaken out during compile time (although the compiled "hello world" api still clocks in at a 200MB binary - I think tokio is most of it)

Exactly this is why #rustlang is awesome. There's a part in @ernerfeldt's conclusion that I would have put in the main list: that Rust is multipurpose. It's not just a C++ replacement. Rather it is an alternative to each of Javascript, Python, Java, C#, and Go in different ways.

@DemeoGame "I don't like teleportation. I prefer smooth movement."

What's a thing you can say when playing VR but sounds weird IRL? 🤔

@alsarabee @fermatslibrary I'm intrigued. Please explain!

@fermatslibrary Allman is the best for debugging

A few different indentation styles

@_ahungry @ernerfeldt I don't know what is 2.5 GB in your project, but it's impressive nevertheless.

@vilcans @ernerfeldt Yup, with #rustlang and Rocket, I can make a 2.5G "Hello world" api instead of node's 5MB express - and we know bigger is better!

@FreyaHolmer When they were used on tape decks, they were pretty good for explaining how two's complement numbers work. Rewinding from 000 gives 999, so the highest possible number (999) can be thought of as negative 1.

what are these spinny numbers called? not the clock-face one, but the rolling numbers in the middle of the altimeter that says 3000 I can't for the life of me find anything on them when searching for digit display types, it's all just flip numbers and 7 seg dipslays

@_sorceress Thank you. I'll think about that.

I dreamt I read a magazine article about a 70s movie. There was a picture of an LA skyline in harsh sunlight with some men behind a fence in the foreground and one with Iggy Pop quoted saying "[the director] said I was perfect for the part of Mr Edo". Please analyze!

@LeaVerou @FremyCompany How complete do you need it to be? Here's one idea: Grab a list of English words, paste them into a Google Drive spreadsheet column. Put the TRANSLATE function in another column.

@vilcans @FremyCompany I actually went into a huge rabbit hole yesterday trying to find such dictionary files. It’s far less easy than you think. The OPUS ones @FremyCompany shared are not very good for that purpose, they are missing most simple words.

Has anyone come across a free API for translating *words* between languages? Just words, no fancy AI or anything needed.