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Re:Toit v2.0.0
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:39AM (#50352548)
You get surprisingly good at typing with one hand after a while. ;)
Re:Toit v2.0.0
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:56AM (#50350880)
I have used toit in a lot of my projects. It is a really nice language and so much cleaner than all the alternatives I have tried (Arduino, Python, Lua).
The tools just work and I got used to the language really quickly.
I did hate that it was bytecode. It just felt wrong to run bytecode on an ESP32. OTOH it just works, and I have never noticed any performance problems.
My latest project is a controller for a slave-clock: https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr-toit (There is also a Garmin repository that allows me to control the clock using my Garmin watch.)
Disclaimer: I had to use toit (floitsch is my brother), but it really is a nice language and development environment.
[Edit: typos..]
Re:Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:19AM (#50052551)
Purely reasoned rant of vibe coded clones.
Here are 2 quotes, which give you a pretty good idea about the whole article:
> They’re spending minimum $2K to vibe code a Photoshop competitor when Affinity Photo is free and Photoshop costs $200 a year. Not very smart economics.
and
> Instead of hurling hate speech and bile at thousands of software engineers who lead innovation at large companies (Adobe, Autodesk, Maxxon, Celsys, and others), show them some gratitude for their efforts. They are the engineers who innovate and everyone else follows.
Re:Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev)
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:08AM (#50030464)
I am surprised this hasn't already existed.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:23PM (#49912497)
they do contain strong magnets which are, IMO, worth salvaging.
Re:In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Ker...
on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:32AM (#49784645)
You are left behind.
That's like saying: "I am using punch cards for programming and I feel left behind as others are using real-time IDEs"
You don't need to vibe code (and even this is only a matter of time as llms become better and better), but not using AI at all will definitely leave you behind.
Re:Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:20AM (#48967500)
Interesting, that some words don't start with the letter they represent.
Re:GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:24AM (#48627336)
I wonder how much tokens and time where used for the verifying part.
Maybe GLM 5.2 instantly found the "solution" to read the screen pixel by pixel, but it could also have been a major token and time consumer.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tips/tricks about IDEs that aren't well known?
I'm preparing a presentation to help my coworkers make better use of the tools we all use and would be interested in what other devs recommend.My presentation is focused on windows, IntelliJ,... (What we use at work) but any tip is welcome.I currently have:IntelliJ Shortcuts: Shift-F6, Ctrl-Ctrl-arrow, Ctrl-Shift-C/V, Ctrl-E, Ctrl-Shift-arrow, Ctrl-Shift-F Functionality: Shift-Breakpoint...
Re:ESP32 based old clock controller, with NTP sync
on Saturday September 26, 2020 @05:09PM (#24602136)
I've also written a controller for those slave clocks. Instead of an ESP32 I used an ESP8266.
[1] and [2]
An even earlier version used an atmega and was powered from batteries [3]
Those slave-clocks are pretty loud. Both versions have a way to pause the clock.
https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr_hardware https://github.com/close2/nebenuhr