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• found when searching for a way to make a color darker using js
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/programminghorror | 21 Oct 2022
• Minigames while waiting for builds
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk | 26 Aug 2022

  Just use b

• Note, the first time you ever run the render() method, it will download Chromium into your home directory (e.g. ~/.pyppeteer/). This only happens once.
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk | 28 Jul 2022

  I use b

• Notation as a Tool of Thought
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2022

  I used to believe this but i don't anymore.

  From https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded

  Arthur is famous for his very dense programming style. Most C programmers would scream when seeing this code.

  In his view (and others in the terse scene), it is much better to have everything in your application readable on the screen at once than to have great names for things or a lot of white space to comfort the first timer reader.

  To them, once you've sufficiently studied that screen or two of code, you can understand all of it at the same time. If it's spread out over thousands of files, it's very difficult to understand all of it, which leads to bugs, unnecessary abstraction, and the need for advanced tooling just to work with your own project's code.

  He wants to see the code "all at once" so he can understand all of its behavior without paging around and shifting his focus to another tab, window, etc. To get there he makes a lot of tradeoffs in terms of the code formatting and naming conventions. He also, in b, creates a dense set of interlocking macros and abstractions that can make the code very hard to follow.

  Critics and the uninitiated say that his code is like old school modem line noise: random punctuation intermixed with bits of understandable code. I would suggest that he's actually quite careful with the abstractions he chooses and they are actually not always the most dense, highly compressed code structures available to him. He chooses wisely and his code rewards deep study.

  Interview with Arthur Whitney: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242

• Thinking in an Array Language
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2022

  Here's some links relating to this style of code that you may find useful:

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W83ME5JecI2hd5hAUqQ1BVF3...

  https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded

  https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/conversation/ngn-...

  They're not 1.5 paragraphs per line, but enough to give a taste of the implementation style.

• 20 times a day. 20 x 4 sec = 80 sec = 1min + 20sec. For vim users, this is a lot.
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk | 4 May 2022

  I could write a whole compiler in that time.

• Someone earlier linked to Arthur Whitney's style of coding in the comments. Can we discuss this further? I am disturbed by what I saw.
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/C_Programming | 15 Feb 2022

  Here is a link: https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded

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