`lt` has been a fun toy project. I doubt the population of TUI enthusiasts and Linear.app users is very big, but the point of the project was to build something for me, and learn some #rust along the way.

Is this vibe coding? Asking for a friend.

I put together a website that lets you compare programming language features across multiple languages: dialectical.dev I’ve got Zig, Rust, Nim, Python, Kotlin, Typescript, Elixir, Go, and Gleam in there. LMK if I should add anything else! Language concept or language.

It was fun to see how v8 (and this @nodejs.org and @chromium.social and co) added optional chaining (?.) to the language. Just ~250 lines of code to get the initial version in! open.substack.com/pub/commithi...

Node.js v23.6.0 is out! 🥳🎉 This release enables the flag --experimental-strip-types by default. Node.js will be able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration! ⚠️ This feature is experimental, has limitations and is subject to change. nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

The Day 1 #AdventOfCode solution we've all been waiting for: COBOL 65 years ago a committee met in the Pentagon to standardize a new programming language, and soon COBOL-60 was born. Can you guess the name of the sorting algorithm used in the SORT-ARRAYS procedure? adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

I look for commits in all sorts of programming languages, and so far throughout my research, Zig has been my favorite “new” language that not enough people are talking about. Here were a few patterns from my Bun.sh episode that stuck out: @ziglang.bsky.social

@fil.rezo.net and I are working on further improvements to the waffle mark, including better tooltips, better stroke, and a better default unit for very large or very small values. github.com/observablehq...

The implementation of the waffle mark in @observablehq.com’s Plot library is a lot more elegant and clever than I thought it would be: open.substack.com/pub/commithi... #javascript #dataviz

A review of a fun small commit to the @zed.dev editor that had a huge performance boost - always fun digging into commits like these. open.substack.com/pub/commithi...

I had a lot of fun exploring the origins of some @duckdb.org functionality in my latest Commit History episode! open.substack.com/pub/commithi...

I’m looking for interesting open source projects to do an episode of my show on!