Musings on software.

When you write a module in C’Dent, you can use it in a dozen different programming languages. For instance, you could write a module in Python and use it in JavaScript, or you could write a module in JavaScript and use it in Perl 6, Ruby or Java.

What a trip.

This is of limited use since it’s for logic, not for API stuff, and most apps write their own logic instead of relying on modules for logic, but I’ll have to try to remember that this exists for things that do rely on logic.

One example that does come to mind is an infix expression parser library that takes strings as input and returns numbers. Something like that could work with C’Dent.

Under “next steps” it says:

Add variables and assignments

Conclusion: completely useless for now without further hacking & patching.

Aaron on how he wrote web.py:

I imagined how things should work and then I made that happen. Sometimes making things just work takes a lot of code. Sometimes it only takes a little.

The story of how YouTube outpaced Google Videos. Conclusion: type annotations are a plague 😭

Patchwork might be something to keep in mind as an opportunity to install later on if I get overwhelmed by patches. Right now it’d be a complete YAGNI. Also it’s Django.

I like the idea: it doesn’t intrude with the mailing list workflow at all, it’s just an extra “view” of the patches.

Tauthon. Run Python 2 code forever. 🙏🏻

In this tutorial we’ll use reader to download all the episodes of a podcast, and then each new episode as they come up.

Why I’m using the unstructured Python library to handle complex text data while building a private AI assistant, and also explaining its benefits and why it’s the perfect fit for my use case.

“At a glance, this should help fpm users, I think, and fpm should mark things as this new “externally managed” category (pending some code changes to fpm, I assume)”

The gist seems to be that pip will be less inclined to clobberly delete stuff from dpkg, and that’s a good thing. It “tries to steer us towards venvs” which I’m not into compared to just making .deb files but hopefully there will be slightly fewer clashes. 🤞🏻

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