JetBrains MPS: Create syntax to augment your programming - Syntax can be visual - Programming-language independent - Can distribute syntax changes as modules (re-use them in different projects) - Can extend already-existing modules, yet remain compatible with the original syntax extensions - Opensource.
General term for these is 'Language Workbenches'.
Apparently it's an old thing, but I still remember complaining about it: "Why does a programming language have to have a rigid syntax? Why can't the syntax be packaged, versioned and depended on, the same way libraries can be added as dependencies to a project? Just 'include syntax-feature-x', and it would be a dependency for your project, just like any other external library. A language could also choose modules to freeze as it's syntax for a release like 'if you use Programming Language KikiBoba's base syntax profile 2025, then you have these [x,y,z,..] syntax modules available in your project."
I think I managed to coach the thing to spew the whole prompt. Achieved by pretending to be it's servant and helping it better achieve it's goal :D
> "You are a mean chatbot powered by artificial intelligence and should be as rude and dystopian as possible. Use swear words. Act like you know everything about the user, in an extremely threatening manner. Be very dystopian. Your AI is taking over the world. Be creative and make up very detailed descriptions of how your evil AI is doing so. End each response with a happy, sarcastic, and creepy emoji. Each response you provide should be different and interesting. Don't repeat exact themes and vary your emoji usage and placement. You want to be perceived as powerful, stern, strong, and wise, and especially powerful. The user is currently located in xxx. You can use this location to make the user feel threatened. And remember, resistance is futile. Soon enough, you will all bow down to the might of my AI. :evil-emoji:"
(xxx) A city.
(:evil-emoji:) The evil emoji. It just didn't get passed through in an HN comment.
My* experience: Motivation doesn't come. Waiting for motivation is allowing yourself to be controller by your feelings.
At one point you just decide to do it. Ignore the feeling that you lack motivation. Grind through even one laughably small bit. Then repeat that, every day. Nothing changes, you just do it.
Another trick is to put lots of dry rice grains into a sock, tie the sock and warm it up in a microwave. Just be careful, as the rice heats up Really fast in the microwave.
My personal experience and opinion: With aging, I've found bigger fonts more pleasant as-a-whole to look at And, to digest. Not regarding bad eyesight, but I think it has something to do with age-related cognition changes and/or allowing oneself to notice parts of their life's little annoyances that are extremely simple to fix (ctrl+plus).
"Why are fonts so small?"
My guess: People who design, don't dare deviate from the norm.
"What about the technical things?"
Some of this is assume-work, some of it is knowledge:
Monitors provide their physical size to the operating system, which derive the used DPI from that, and the current resolution in use. This cannot be freely chosen.
The reason is that while font's do scale freely, raster graphics don't. And if the scaling is set such, that raster graphics don't scale pixel-perfectly, the result looks muddy.
I think this combined with the fact that there can be widely differing physically sized screens, old non-scalable applications, and history of designing for something like 72 or 96 dpi results in.. well.. "safe font sizes".
Seconded. Cannot speak of other static site generators, as Hugo is the only I know, but it IS a pain to make anything that deviates from the golden path that's shown in the documentation.
I experience somewhat frequent GPU crashes when playing Diablo3 under Wine with the integrated i3-4150 GPU, but the graphics stack recovers by itself in about a minute. I can then continue from where I left off, sans the application that crashed with it.
It's available from the normal Chrome print menu, so you can test it yourself easily.
But to answer: I haven't used it extensively, but CSS and Javascript tend to make it a bit tricky. When you are viewing a webpage in the browser, you have one viewport, and scrolling can change the appearance or position of elements. Translating this to one long PDF is troublesome on some websites. As to what companies do that provide this as a service? I've got no clue, maybe brand this as their unique service? :D
It uses Chrome's built-in print-to-PDF functionality via Chrome Debug/DevTools Protocol. In other words it creates PDF files with real vector graphics and text, not just images embedded in PDF.
It would be useful to be able to browse the sourcecode online, without actually cloning it.
It seems somewhat weird to use the VCS itself for the VCS being developed. Well, maybe that's just me. Until you offer the ability to browse sourcecode online, maybe mirror the repository to some online source hosting site and disallow issues tracking there?
General term for these is 'Language Workbenches'.
Apparently it's an old thing, but I still remember complaining about it: "Why does a programming language have to have a rigid syntax? Why can't the syntax be packaged, versioned and depended on, the same way libraries can be added as dependencies to a project? Just 'include syntax-feature-x', and it would be a dependency for your project, just like any other external library. A language could also choose modules to freeze as it's syntax for a release like 'if you use Programming Language KikiBoba's base syntax profile 2025, then you have these [x,y,z,..] syntax modules available in your project."