mstoical
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mstoical
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Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth
I'm not a C programmer, and it took a fair bit of help from folks here on HN to get it compiling (it was forked from a 20 year old C source), for which I'm grateful.
[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
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Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
Details I didn't include but should have (I wasn't sure I'd have any replies at all... I should have had more faith, sorry)
It's a bit of a ramble, sorry about that.
MSTOICAL[0] is a fork of an old C based Forth variant, it took some help from the HN community[1] to get it to compile in a modern 64 bit environment, for which I am very thankful. However, it uses AutoConf to configure, build, install, etc... and I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove all of that logic. (C isn't my primary language, I'm willing to learn that, but adding AutoConf on top of it was too much)
In order to work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... got everything up and running for the most part, but then I couldn't access WikidPad[2], my local Wiki with my appointments, etc. I missed a doctors appointment because of that, so went back to Windows.
The issue is around wxWindows changing the names of variables in some calls. On Windows, you just download an EXE installer and you're good to go. I couldn't figure it out because the program seems to be unwilling to support newer Python versions. (I could be wrong)
I don't understand why they felt the need to make breaking changes to wxWindows, and the python is a bit too dense for me.
So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone with a bunch of weird ideas that I tossed out at 3:30 am in a twitter thread, and put into a more coherent manifesto.[3]
[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273
[2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad
[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md
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Ask HN: Paragraphs – should they contain line breaks?
Reviewing the documentation from Stoical[1], it occurs to me that fixed line length text is archaic, yet I'm new to this world of C programmers.
Is it reasonable to get rid of all the extra line breaks and make something that flows better on all screen sizes?
[1] - https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical/blob/main/doc/Stoical
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Old C code – how to upgrade it?
That'd probably get you some way there already: https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical
WikidPad
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What WIKI do you recommend
MoinMoin [wikipedia link] uses flat files, so does WikidPad as a personal wiki.
- Is there an app to keep track of all the details when writing a story?
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Good open source Linux based wiki for work organization?
For an individual, I used to use WikidPad and quite like it.
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Private Wiki Creation
There also are "serverless" wikis, like http://tiddlywiki.com/ (can be run as a standalone desktop app - see in the bottom, or Wiki on a Stick, or WikiPad
- Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
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Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
Details I didn't include but should have (I wasn't sure I'd have any replies at all... I should have had more faith, sorry)
It's a bit of a ramble, sorry about that.
MSTOICAL[0] is a fork of an old C based Forth variant, it took some help from the HN community[1] to get it to compile in a modern 64 bit environment, for which I am very thankful. However, it uses AutoConf to configure, build, install, etc... and I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove all of that logic. (C isn't my primary language, I'm willing to learn that, but adding AutoConf on top of it was too much)
In order to work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... got everything up and running for the most part, but then I couldn't access WikidPad[2], my local Wiki with my appointments, etc. I missed a doctors appointment because of that, so went back to Windows.
The issue is around wxWindows changing the names of variables in some calls. On Windows, you just download an EXE installer and you're good to go. I couldn't figure it out because the program seems to be unwilling to support newer Python versions. (I could be wrong)
I don't understand why they felt the need to make breaking changes to wxWindows, and the python is a bit too dense for me.
So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone with a bunch of weird ideas that I tossed out at 3:30 am in a twitter thread, and put into a more coherent manifesto.[3]
[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273
[2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad
[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md
- Free open source alternatives to Notion?
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Online World Organization for Novel
When it comes to organization I would recommend using a wiki tool. The interlinked articles in a wiki is super useful to build a web of information and help you not lose track of important details. Wikidpad is a great free desktop tool.
- Who remembers Wikidpad?
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wikia for writers to work offline
Wikidpad is quite functional. It's not the prettiest but it does its job. I don't know if or how you can implement images. But it's free and maybe worth a try.
What are some alternatives?
gale - Strongly-typed, minimal-ish, stack-based development at storm-force speed.
obsidian-auto-link-title - Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links
create-react-app-zero - All of Create React App, none of the dependencies
pyenv-win - pyenv for Windows. pyenv is a simple python version management tool. It lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python. It's simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.
copycat - A concatenative language on Scheme
TiddlyDesktop - A custom desktop browser for TiddlyWiki 5 and TiddlyWiki Classic, based on nw.js
ActorForth - A strongly typed Forth-like language ultimately intended to target cryptoledgers and support an Actor concurrency model. Initially implemented in Python, now switched to modern C++.
mu1 - Prototype tree-walking interpreter back when Mu was a high-level statement-oriented language, c. 2018
kitten - A statically typed concatenative systems programming language.
TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.
stoical - An ancient forth like language
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