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lmt
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Literate Programming: Articles
One more tool to accomplish this is lmt [0] which, despite minimal documentation, is quite pleasing to use.
[0] https://github.com/driusan/lmt
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Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong
I personally use literate programming to maintain my "dotfiles", mainly NixOS [1], and I _love_ it. I like to describe all possible alternative tools, why I don't use them, possible tools that look nice, random ideas and blog posts that describe parts of my config, add TODOs and screenshots, ... in short everything that is really ugly to do inside source code comments. Also I gain structure; adding headings to a 3000 LOC config is very nice.
For tangling I use lmt [2], as it works with Markdown and also play nice with Emanote [3] (full syntax highlighting inside the code blocks.). That means all my "dotfiles" are inside my Zettelkasten [4] and can be navigated like any other note I have.
[1]: https://nixos.org/
[2]: https://github.com/driusan/lmt
[3]: https://github.com/srid/emanote
[4]: https://zettelkasten.de/
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BSAG ยป NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration
I switched to NixOS half a year ago. The reason? I fell in love with literate programming (I use [1]); being able to write (and read) your whole OS configuration is the dream!
There are few bad sides to NixOS though.
The community consists mostly of programmers, which means I am missing some creative tools (mockups, mindmaps, ..). In the future I will be able to provide/build them myself, but it is not a smooth transition from my previous arch setup.
Also the whole documentation sucks: There are three (!) official manuals + the home-manager manual + Nix pills + YT + random blogs where I have to piece everything together.
Still I find NixOS superior to every other OS (windows, linux) I have tried so far. I just feel free and am not afraid to fuck up anything [2], as I can just go to a previous generation when it doesn't boot.
Lastly, as my config is in git, I am free to try new tools -- If I don't like them, I just remove their line in my config. No more chasing after random install folders!
[1]: https://github.com/driusan/lmt
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Damn Small Linux 2024
Depending on how minimal a distribution you want, a few years ago I had a way to take a single ELF binary created by my computing stack built up from machine code (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) and package it up with just a linux kernel and syslinux (whatever _that_ is) to create a bootable disk image I could then ship to a cloud server (https://akkartik.name/post/iso-on-linode, though I don't use Linode anymore these days) and run on a VPS to create a truly minimal webserver. If this seems at all relevant I'd be happy to answer questions or help out.
- Ask HN: Good Books on Philosophy of Engineering
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x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu by Ed Jorgensen
This was the thinking behind my https://github.com/akkartik/mu
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Plain Text. With Lines
Yes thank you, I was indeed alluding to https://github.com/akkartik/mu. Perhaps a more precise term would be "software stack".
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Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems
I built a computer with its own languages, and I consider it to be _less_ cognitive load when everything is in 1/2/3 languages. I don't have to worry that the next program I want to read the sources will require "Go, Rust, C++, JS/TS, Python, Java, etc."
There are other metrics to consider besides your notions of cognitive load and productivity. Inferno predates most of the languages on your list. My computer (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) uses custom languages because I was able to design them to minimize total LoC, and to ensure the dependency graph has no cycles (unlike all of the conventional software stack, at least until https://www.gnu.org/software/mes connects up all the dots).
- Llisp: Lisp in Lisp
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10 Years Against Division of Labor in Software
"Separation of concerns is a hard-won insight."
Absolutely. I'm arguing for separating just concerns, without entangling them with considerations of people.
It's certainly reasonable to consider my projects toy. I consider them research:
* https://github.com/akkartik/mu
* https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
"The idea that projects should take source copies instead of library dependencies is just kind of nuts..."
The idea that projects should take copies seems about symmetric to me with taking pointers. Call by value vs call by reference. We just haven't had 50 years of tooling to support copies. Where would we be by now if we had devoted equal resources to both branches?
"...at least for large libraries."
How are these large libraries going for ya? Log4j wasn't exactly a shining example of the human race at its best. We're trying to run before we can walk.
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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.
https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.
[1] https://github.com/akkartik/mu
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My 486 Server
I'm very interested in the network stack, having explored it for a while for https://github.com/akkartik/mu before giving up. What sort of network card do you support?
What are some alternatives?
emanote - Emanate a structured view of your plain-text notes
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
notebook-mode - GNU Emacs notebook mode
mtpng - A parallelized PNG encoder in Rust
Literate - A literate programming tool for any language
collapseos - Bootstrap post-collapse technology
haskell-dbus - This repository is no longer actively maintained. Please use Andrey Sverdlichenko's fork instead:
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
geom - 2D/3D geometry toolkit for Clojure/Clojurescript
librope - UTF-8 rope library for C
itypescript - ITypescript is a typescript kernel for the Jupyter notebook (A modified version of IJavascript)
teliva - Fork of Lua 5.1 to encourage end-user programming