I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease
smart home was a mistake
A GitHub for maintainers - Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got
“ignore the code: Please, Support Books”
https://ignorethecode.net/blog/2025/11/22/please_support_books/
> LLMs have had a significant impact on book sales, particularly technical books. These systems are killing the companies that created much of the content that made LLMs useful in the first place.
Two Ruby compilers, started about the same time, by people unaware of each other's work. The interesting question isn't which is right — it's what changed.
When implementation cost drops far enough, previously-uneconomic bets become tractable. Independent clusters are the signal that a moment has arrived.
https://intertwingly.net/blog/2026/04/25/Two-Compilers-One-Moment.html
Time flies! It's already 5 years since the release of Crystal 1.0.
We're going to celebrate that! Meet the Core Team and community members looking back at that milestone, what happened since then, and what's coming next.
You can tag your questions with #Crystal2026AMA
Friday, 27 March 2026 16:00 UTC
Video Call: https://man.as/crystal2026ama-zoom
Live Stream: https://man.as/crystal2026ama
More info: https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/5-years-anniversary-of-crystal-1-0/8801
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
Based on @CrystalLanguage , I've been toying around the idea of a semantic graph typechecker. The idea is to attach a type to every ast node, and calculate them on a series of iterations (rewrites?) until they're all complete (or an incompatibility happens).
Has anyone seen anything like this before?