20 random bookmarks

2025-08-29

131.

You no longer need JavaScript

lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

2025-08-12

128.

missing.css

missing.style

2025-06-26

123.

Box combinators

mmapped.blog/posts/41-box-combinators.html

In functional programming,
combinator libraries refer to a design style that emphasizes bottom-up program construction.
Such libraries define a few core data types
and provide constructors—functions that create initial objects—and combinators—functions that build larger objects from smaller pieces.

Combinators enable the programmer to use intuitive visual and spatial reasoning
that’s vastly more powerful than linear language processing.
As a result, solving problems with combinators feels like playing with lego pieces.

2025-06-20

Reposted 122.

Cursed Knowledge | Immich

immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Things we wish we didn't know

2025-06-18

121.

You can use `fzf` to review git commits

jvns.ca/til/fzf-preview-git-commits

I just learned that
you can use it to review a git commit like this and I thought that was really
cool.

2025-05-30

115.

The PGP Problem

www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem

Why do people keep telling me to use PGP? The answer is that they shouldn’t be telling you that, because PGP is bad and needs to go away.

2025-05-28

114.

SAT Live!

localhost:4000

2024-12-31

95.

Idiosyncra

exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/12/29/idiosyncra

Interesting setup for pet computers. Debian + sway + cage

2024-11-04

86.

Writing secure Go code

jarosz.dev/article/writing-secure-go-code

Security testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknesses. With this knowledge, we can improve our Go development. This article shows how to put in place robust practices. They are to: fuzz inputs, verify dependencies, and use static analysis tools (SAST).

2024-10-16

83.

Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways

bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference

2024-09-15

72.

Writing an OS in Rust

os.phil-opp.com

This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language. Each post is a small tutorial and includes all needed code.

2024-06-24

51.

Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles -- Extended Version with Additional Appendices

arxiv.org/abs/2403.06707

The expression problem describes how most types can easily be extended with new ways to produce the type or new ways to consume the type, but not both. When abstract syntax trees are defined as an algebraic data type, for example, they can easily be extended with new consumers, such as print or eval, but adding a new constructor requires the modification of all existing pattern matches. The expression problem is one way to elucidate the difference between functional or data-oriented programs (easily extendable by new consumers) and object-oriented programs (easily extendable by new producers). This difference between programs which are extensible by new producers or new consumers also exists for dependently typed programming, but with one core difference: Dependently-typed programming almost exclusively follows the functional programming model and not the object-oriented model, which leaves an interesting space in the programming language landscape unexplored. In this paper, we explore the field of dependently-typed object-oriented programming by deriving it from first principles using the principle of duality. That is, we do not extend an existing object-oriented formalism with dependent types in an ad-hoc fashion, but instead start from a familiar data-oriented language and derive its dual fragment by the systematic use of defunctionalization and refunctionalization. Our central contribution is a dependently typed calculus which contains two dual language fragments. We provide type- and semantics-preserving transformations between these two language fragments: defunctionalization and refunctionalization. We have implemented this language and these transformations and use this implementation to explain the various ways in which constructions in dependently typed programming can be explained as special instances of the phenomenon of duality.

50.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

2024-06-21

49.

On testing Go code using the standard library | Henrique Vicente

henvic.dev/posts/testing-go

Most programming language ecosystems provide assert functions in their testing libraries but not Go's. Go's standard testing package follows a more direct and to-the-point approach.

2024-06-18

41.

Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp

2024-06-14

34.

Nix as a WebAssembly build tool

determinate.systems/posts/nix-wasm
31.

CAUSAL.AGENCY(7)

causal.agency

I make mostly IRC software in C. I like OpenBSD but also the GPL. I just want to read books and try to learn to be kinder. When I can I'd like to talk to strangers and experience more magic.

2024-06-13

21.

Building Go programs with Nix Flakes

xeiaso.net//blog/nix-flakes-go-programs
20.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023

nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08

2024-06-12

12.

I really like the RP2040

dgroshev.com/blog/rp2040