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Qwen 3.8

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
419•nh43215rgb•7h ago•317 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
130•ObviouslyFlamer•4h ago•83 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
219•chipweinberger•5h ago•105 comments

Blender 5.2 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/
190•makizar•4d ago•75 comments

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o
30•teleforce•2h ago•18 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
175•tosh•5h ago•232 comments

UnifiedIR for Julia

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/62334
12•vimarsh6739•18h ago•0 comments

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files
151•AmazingTurtle•8h ago•67 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
59•andros•4h ago•35 comments

Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
641•sebjones•15h ago•136 comments

Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit

https://iain.so/infinities-impossibilities-and-the-man-in-the-white-linen-suit
25•iainharper•5d ago•18 comments

Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

https://land-atlas-production.up.railway.app/welcome
17•L3dge•6d ago•3 comments

The death and rebirth of my home server

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-server-rebirth/
70•steinuil•5h ago•38 comments

Cagire: Live Coding in Forth

https://cagire.raphaelforment.fr
7•surprisetalk•1w ago•0 comments

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
510•petewarden•4d ago•69 comments

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/
246•denysvitali•16h ago•164 comments

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-mult...
165•beardyw•5d ago•95 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor
264•xonery•15h ago•74 comments

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
212•cdrnsf•18h ago•174 comments

The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB

https://la0by.darc.de/LA8YB_EME_MBA.htm
23•kalehmann•7h ago•6 comments

Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/clever-hacker-fits-537-000-domains-in-a-tiny-usd5-esp32-a...
21•sbulaev•1h ago•6 comments

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

https://ibm-1401.info/pictures/Proc-MIW-2017-Garner-1401PDP1.pdf
30•rbanffy•1w ago•3 comments

Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea
49•mfiguiere•10h ago•1 comments

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/07/14/umami-for-apps
42•Sankra•5d ago•5 comments

Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

https://ollama.com/blog/all-aboard-open-models
36•inferhaven•8h ago•13 comments

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-com...
36•nill0•8h ago•3 comments

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/
155•doener•18h ago•21 comments

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
263•Ygg2•22h ago•233 comments

Making Software: How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font
70•Garbage•5d ago•12 comments

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/
69•zdw•1w ago•6 comments
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Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme

https://mnieper.github.io/scheme-macros/README.html
92•textread•1y ago

Comments

neilv•1y ago
A few formatting changes might make this advanced example easier to understand:

    (define-syntax trace-let
      (syntax-rules ()
        [(trace-let name ([var expr] ...) body1 ... body2)
         (let f ([depth 0] [var expr] ...)
           (define name
             (lambda (var ...)
               (f (+ depth 1) var ...)))
           (indent depth)
           (display "(")
           (display 'name)
           (begin
             (display " ")
             (display var))
           ...
           (display ")")
           (newline)
           (call-with-values
               (lambda ()
                 body1 ... body2)
             (lambda val*
               (indent depth)
               (fold-left
                (lambda (sep val)
                  (display sep)
                  (display val)
                  " ")
                "" val*)
               (newline)
               (apply values val*))))]))
The biggest one is to make the rule template pattern variables all-uppercase. I also made a few other tweaks, including using indentation a little more, and naming the named-`let` variable as "loop" (I usually name it `loop` or prefix the name with `loop-` if there's more than one):

    (define-syntax trace-let
      (syntax-rules ()
        ((trace-let NAME ((VAR EXPR) ...) BODY1 ... BODY2)
         (let loop ((depth 0)
                    (VAR   EXPR) ...)
           (define NAME
             (lambda (VAR ...)
               (loop (+ depth 1) VAR ...)))
           (indent depth)
           (display "(")
           (display (quote NAME))
           (begin (display " ")
                  (display VAR)) ...
           (display ")")
           (newline)
           (call-with-values (lambda ()
                               BODY1 ... BODY2)
             (lambda val*
               (indent depth)
               (fold-left (lambda (sep val)
                            (display sep)
                            (display val)
                            " ")
                          ""
                          val*)
               (newline)
               (apply values val*)))))))
Incidentally, all-uppercase Scheme pattern variables is one of the all-time best uses of all-uppercase in any language. Second only to all-uppercase for the C preprocessor, where a preprocessor macro can introduce almost arbitrary text. Using all-uppercase for constants in some language that has constants, however, is an abomination.

(My suspicion of why Java did all-caps is that they were developing a language for embedded systems developers who were currently using C and C++, and they wanted to make it superficially look similar, even though it was an entirely different language. And then, ironically, the language ended up being used mostly by the analogue of a very different developer of the time: corporate internal information systems developers, who, as a field, didn't use anything like C. It's too late to save Java, but to all other language and API developers, please stop the insanity of all-caps constants, enum values, etc. It's not the most important thing that needs to jump out from the code above all other things.)

Y_Y•1y ago
FWIW, all-caps makes this look much worse to me. I understand that people like things like Hungarian notation, arrows over vector names, and shouting Common Lisp symbols. I understand the argument that it can make reading easier. I just can't appreciate that benefit, and it seems to me an ugly hack which obscures the abstract and general symbolic manipulation going on.

This is all highly subjective of course, de gustibus non disputandem.

neilv•1y ago
You mean aesthetically, in that interspersed all-caps makes the code visually less soothingly sensual?

I can sympathize, but let me make a non-aesthetic argument...

In large blocks of code, with all-caps, you can see at a glance where all the template substitutions are happening, and also instantly know as you're reading code what are variables and what are template substitutions?

I'm asking because one of my realizations in recent years is that not everyone reads or sees code the same way.

For example, maybe some people are stronger "visual" and some people are stronger "verbal".

For another example of a different in how people perceive and think, some people can visualize an object in their mind almost as if they're looking at it, but other people can only know and describe what it looks like without bringing a visual of it into their head.

With the benefit of the all-caps, I can glance at this and immediately see much of the structure of the template. Without all-caps, I'd have to work harder to find all the pattern variables, and the structure would be obscured.

For a bit kludgy practical matter, as I'm quickly looking at pieces of code in a template, with all-caps, I can look at a fragment of code in isolation and know what are and aren't pattern variables. Without that, I have to go read the top of the template clause (and read through any syntactic scopes of `let-syntax`) and get that in my head, until I get to the fragment of code I originally wanted to look at.

IDE support can make this unnecessary, with a hypothetical great IDE, with familiar syntax coloring. But still, if there is one thing that all-caps should be reserved for, it's something like this.

With all-caps, your code can be sensual, and the jolting all-caps bits are look out, potentially arbitrary code gets pasted into here.

mnemenaut•1y ago
https://github.com/rogerturner/scheme-macros/blob/main/examp... shows stepwise development of a trace-let [the `(example: (fn arg) => result)` forms are tests - see check-examples library]
Y_Y
•
1y ago
Since you asked, my objection is both aesthetic and semantic, though I was really referring to the semantic part above.

I think you've hit the nail on the head with this visual vs. verbal distinction.

I can add a few clarifying details. I don't use IDEs as much as basic text editors maybe with highlighting, and I try not to rely on any fancy features. It does worry me that the allcaps use you describe is (afaik) not known to the editor or interpreter, so if you make a mistake or the symbol gets out of sync with its meaning (re: pattern variables) you may have a false signal. Finally I'll say that in the end I can't suggest a good way to treat these special variables, and so maybe I don't get it, or tastes like mine would be better served by a different formalism for macros.