Brian J. Cardiff

@bcardiff
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I explored the idea of having elm apps built using two-way bindings. If interested check https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/bcardiff/elm-rad/1.0.0/ and its source for examples. Cells, computed, debounce, validation, and local persistence supported. #elm #elmlang

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

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a-github-for-maintainers.html

A GitHub for maintainers

Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got

Andrew Nesbitt

“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.

ignore the code: Please, Support Books

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

Two Compilers, One Moment

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

#CrystalLang #ask_me_anything

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If you are on OSX and find yourself needing to compare visually some presentations side by side you might enjoy Scrolly. An app I needed and claude helped me build: a small utility that locks the scrolls of two windows together. https://github.com/bcardiff/scrolly https://youtu.be/HaFi8RsJU8U
GitHub - bcardiff/scrolly: A minimal macOS menu-bar utility that synchronizes vertical scroll across two or more windows

A minimal macOS menu-bar utility that synchronizes vertical scroll across two or more windows - bcardiff/scrolly

GitHub

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

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

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?

I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
CCC vs GCC

A Guide to comparing Claude Code Compiler with GCC

Harshanu