Andrea Giammarchi 🍥

coincident/server on IoT via Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W? Sure! #readme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/WebReflection/…

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions. It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer. Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers. "You never know where it's going to put things”, he said. Everyone else in the company was moving on to FORTRAN, and they didn’t understand why Mel was so stubborn about using new tools. He *loved* self-modifying code. “If a program can’t rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?” Mel eventually left the company, and other engineers were tasked with understanding what was left. Mel’s hand-optimized routines always beat the assemblers; but some of it looked absolutely bizarre. One engineer took ~2 weeks to understand why there were loops with no exit condition…yet the program worked fine. I won’t spoil all the details, you should really read it, it’s short. But it’s a fantastic piece on “what defines a real programmer?”…which is becoming increasingly relevant in this vibe-coded era. I strive to understand computers as deeply as Mel! If we aren’t careful, we’re going to lose the “Mels” of this world to time. That’s part of why I go so deep in my youtube videos. I hope that younger viewers are genuinely fascinated by the inner workings of our machines, instead of handing everything off to higher abstractions.

@ElijahYilma last unrelated thought: this format feels like an awesome candidate for Steam platform, the translation layers might take care of all the details (but of course everyone prefers a native build). Consider that channel too: if it's playful and educational, it's ace (at least to me)

@ElijahYilma look at the bright side, you mentioned "unlimited updates" meaning you need to catch up with Unity future possibilities too 😇 🥳 thanks for the quick reply though, I personally don't need a so quick follow up, just maybe add/be clear/transparent around the fact Linux is not ARM

🚀As promised, it's here! The Universal Bundle and the Linux🐧port for the book are now live! The Linux build has been tested on Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Arch, ChromeOS, and Debian. Grab your copy at 👉 [cartesian dot app] DM me if you have any questions!

@ElijahYilma P.S. it's not about Windows ARM based devices, it's about all ARM64 based devices Linux based too (and before Windows devices).

@ElijahYilma market share in terms of "laptops" or "desktop" might not be still too relevant but anyone using ARM laptops or a perfectly fine Raspberry Pi 5 or similar as tiny machine will have issues. Unity offers that though 👍 unity.com/blog/engine-pl…

@ElijahYilma as example: for educational purposes Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 would do just fine but also other ARM platforms such as DGX Spark or the plethora of ARM based laptops to SBCs coming out every month at this point in time so I hope you can find a solution to read/consume this in there too

@ElijahYilma 1. just bought it for Linux, not because I don't know the content, rather because I wanted to sponsor your awesome work and, before that, great idea 2. the Linux is *NOT* ARM compatible, I think you should add that target or add clarity around that. ARM Linux machines are common.

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

@addyosmani @dhh We still need that to work in Workers because there’s so much still holding back no-build in there but “Hey” is definitely a great reference

@dhh Fantastic seeing apps at scale successful with #nobuild and so happy import maps enabled it!

What if the EU built GitHub?

@theo It’s coward to press red but the only choice if the goal is survival certainty, blue is for idealism and the fact this is just X, not a real treat to anyone 😉

If >50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives Red button pressers always survive, but they’ll get a “red button presser” badge on their Twitter profile. What do you press?

"Year of the Linux Laptop: Omarchy on XPS. The Linux laptop moment has arrived. Inside Dell XPS, Omarchy, and the end of “wait for kernel support.”" Dell is leaning in! dell.com/en-us/blog/yea…

@awesomekling the reason I've been using real devices to test Mobile Web libraries since about forever ... you feel the delay when it's there, everyone else was playing around ... 2015 webreflection.blogspot.com/2015/04/is-any…

Been daily-driving a crappy 2018 machine for ~2 weeks. Underrated perk: every performance win is amplified! Instead of 100ms, you save 300ms :D

Half the joy of collecting retro gaming is the box art, the cartridges, the artifacts. We've lost something important giving up on those physical manifestations of software. Comeback?

this is so accurate 😂

@ITgeekIam @tomshardware I guess yes but not out of ROCm features, CPU only, tiny models too due 16GB RAM.

@tomshardware Can we run llama.cpp on it?

PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning ‘Phat’ consoles into full Linux PCs — build script includes bootable Ubuntu 24.04 image, can output 4K games at 60 FPS tomshardware.com/software/linux…

@thekitze Good but too cooked

i haven't had red meat in 8+ years so first time cooking steak roast my technique pls

or better, pin-point that AI version because the net one might not know a thing about Java/Spring good old shenanigans. You've been warned, make your move!

"the horror" ... when *corporate* or *too fast growing startups* will learn that AI moves forward so that hints to improve their old stack is not the best usage of what AI can do because tracking the past is not inherently granted in newer models that follow the modern hype! 🤷

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