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Re:Laufveranstaltungen Der Region Freiburg on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:47PM (#34777168)
A website listing all the local running events in the Freiburg / Germany region. With a nice leaflet-based map.
In web-terms: a "Homograph Attack" (=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack)
Re:THC: Tight Home Control, automation framework in Tcl on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:06PM (#27976238)
It's still highly used in the EDA industry - almost every EDA tool is scriptable with Tcl. There are even IEEE formats that are actually Tcl dialects, e.g. UPF (Unified Power Format) for describing power related features of circuits.
Re:TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:54AM (#27172527)
I wonder if the distinction of SubLists and SimpleLists makes static code analysis and syntax highlighting more viable than in Tcl where you cant distinguish between "code" and "data"...
Re:Boden – Native mobile cross-platform applications on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:35AM (#20051555)
There's a recent episode of the CppCast where the developers of boden.io are interviewed: http://cppcast.com/2019/04/marcus-tobias/
The project's website has some details: http://www.atlantique-tonneau.com
Re:How to Build a Medieval Castle (2016) on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:45AM (#13519134)
Here's the French castle building project in Guédelon: http://www.guedelon.fr/en/ Since 1997, they are constructing a castle from the grounds up using medieval techniques. Quite impressive...
Airports are actually pretty nice, when looking at them from above. The way their geometries are embedded into different landscapes is sometimes quite intriguing. See https://airports.flopp.net/ for some random examples.