21 April 2024

18 links · Sunday

Programmers diary

Hi. This is the fifth part of the diary of developing the “Programmers’ diary” blog. The open source code of this project is on https://github.com/TheProgrammersDiary. The third part: https://medium.com/@vievaldas/yagni-best-form-of-development-b003ff4051e9. T…

I made a Fallout inspired RPG game in EXCEL

fallout-like-excel-rpg_v1-1Download Story It is the 145th year of the second age. Life in Mercer is unrecognisable to that which came earlier – The bombs saw to that. Humanity may never fully…

I Wrote My Own Editor

I used to like vscode. I've been using it since it could run and debug C#. Last year, I noticed I frequently hit bugs where I couldn't type until I switched out and back into the editor with alt-tab. That's not so bad but it got annoying when I couldn't build …

Why venture capital should embrace divergence - Credistick

In the last post, I talked about the hunt for liquidity in VC and the role that transparency has in building a healthy secondary market. To take that further, we should look more carefully at the structure of venture capital, the direction the asset class is m…

Career Growth: Who is going to do it?

I found this essay by Nicola Ballotta quite interesting. A retrospective of his 25 years professional life, and how he could improve it, ...

OpenAI Wrappers

In the startup world - there’s always been that nagging question when discussing a new idea:

Programming Is Mostly Thinking

Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...

The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)

All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don…

MuPDF.js

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