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the programming language philosophy of providing very few features and libraries works well for Go specifically because based on the few design decisions its creators did make, I fully agree they can't be trusted to make any more

Writing a dithering algorithm in Racket amanvir.com/blog/writing... #lisp #scheme #racket

Am I crazy or does simply running a Watch app in the iOS simulator next to its app counterpart break filesystem access for the iOS app? (Xcode 16.1; iOS 18.1)

Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket (@defn.io) Main Link | Discussion

iOS Media Center Progress Jank defn.io/2025/01/26/i...

OCaml 5.3 has been released: discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-3-... It brings syntax support for effect handlers. It also brings back statistical memory profiler and MSVC support.

New blog post: Technology is never a substitute for consent lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

🎙️ Episode 6: ƑẍɄʑʑ҉⟆Ƒu𝔷𝔷⧫ᶳΩ𝓕𝕦𝘇𝘇֍⧩ tlbh.it/006_fuzz.html

Ok, it's time for another one of these "Swift concurrency step-by-step" posts. It explores working with types that are not Sendable. All based around reading a model from some data store. www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...

"Scheme on WebAssembly: It is happening!" by @wingolog.org is up on youtube! it's a good watch if you're into #scheme and/or #wasm! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2t4...

defn.io/2024/11/24/s...

“First class Prompt Engineering with llm lang! (This is a bad idea.)” by William Bowman at the (fourteenth RacketCon) is now available at https://buff.ly/4hUUDhK #RacketCon

CloudFlare using Racket + Rosette to formally verify DNS config. blog.cloudflare.com/topaz-policy... #racket #lisp #dns #formalverification