I use Emacs for programming but when working with Git, Pass, crontab or other UNIX programs that utilize EDITOR env var I'm in Ed which works very well for small edits. So I'm not using Ed for writing code but I use it daily for things like Git. My full story: portal.mozz.us/gemini/tilde...

well that's my content schedule sorted right there. thank you mr ai 👍

July 1945

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working with the reasoning model like www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-wD...

The Simpsons Homer is slow

YouTube video by Stephon M

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Hello! A little video about Forth. More to come ?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4n...

Introducing Forth poems

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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deep in the forth mines with hacked together forth, in a hacked together virtual machine, running in a hacked together web-based forth IDE. the next video approaches

This is me working from home btw

Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back. youtu.be/GoyNMFccbow

The little editor that could

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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can't believe i missed this vintage shot of 80s Alfred Aho for the last video... would have been so perfect!

Wikipedia says that comp sci professor Rao Kosaraju originated the saying "At some point, the learning stops and the pain begins." — what do you think it means?

every day i get up, i make another clone of ed the Standard Unix Text Editor, i do my burpees, and then i study Unix v7's ed.c to figure out how on earth it works. feels like leetcode for trying to get a job at Bell Labs in 1975

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new video! there is actually no way to describe this topic in a way that sounds interesting so i'll just say it's about whether 1.5 or 2 is friendlier youtu.be/GZPqDvG615k

In search of the perfect dynamic array growth factor

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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when the usenet thread is about to get good

new video! this datatype → [1, 2, 3] ← is a bit of a marvel. it can store items of any size, grow to any length, rarely causes performance issues, and almost every modern language has one. what is it, really? and how does it work?

yes i have created my own virtual machine with its own assembly language to implement my own linked lists for the next video

Doing my semi-annual YouTube subscriptions purge and wanted to highlight some creators with <50k subs who deserve more views 🧵 1/9

Hi all! For flu-related reasons I didn't stream/post so much thru AoC this year, so I made this post to write up a few things I'd meant to put in a video at some point about what I learned open.substack.com/pub/klog/p/3...

#36. Advent of Code Wrap-up

Enjoying puzzles, some rough notes on solving, and streaming.

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New video! In which we break down one of my favourite programming videos — Alex solving day 1 of Advent of Code 2022 in 53 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-aT...

What Alex did with 53 seconds

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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New video! Lots of circles in this one and also some unix history, prime numbers, and possibly a few Jokes watch out for those youtu.be/gITmP0IWff0

How regexes got catastrophic

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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