Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024

Some commentary about the radar...<p>try: Boox Go 10.3 tablet<p>Agree. Avoid reMarkable™. Hostile to the community and better options are out there or on the way including Boox, Onyx and the new Daylight Computer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daylightcomputer.com&#x2F;product" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daylightcomputer.com&#x2F;product</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;best-note-taking-tablet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;best-note-taking-tablet&#x2F;</a><p>---<p>adopt: Blank Spaces app<p>No need to pay money on ios. Clear off all the icons and when you need something swipe down in the middle of the screen and open search or swipe over to the alphabetical listing. Windows Phone was way ahead of its time on this one.<p>---<p>assess: TypeScript – What does it buy me over JS?<p>This one is a little bit flame bait... at the cost of a build step you get a much more reasonable development experience for JS targets with reliable types. The problem is smart people want to flex their brain a lot more than their restraint (where are my grug brains at?) and type astronauting makes the experience much worse. As with all things there is a balance however TS should be &quot;Adopt&quot;.<p>---<p>hold: Zig – This looks like a dead-end for me<p>I keep looking at Zig and playing with it but I am so productive with Go and Python for things that need to be fast enough Zig doesn&#x27;t have much that I need. However Mitchell Hashimoto is using it to great success for his new MacOS terminal emulator which makes me think I just haven&#x27;t tried using it in the appropriate domain... maybe a raytracer is in my future.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;ghostty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitchellh.com&#x2F;ghostty</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghostty-org</a>

This is the second time I&#x27;ve seen the Alexander the OK video about Elite referenced here in two workdays. I love that channel so much, he does excellent dives into the history of more obscure vintage computers, such as the D-17B Minuteman guidance computer and the CK37 used in the Viggen jet

Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc.<p>If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping, it would be fogus, of course.

I esteem &amp; enjoy Requiem for a Dream, but I couldn&#x27;t bear watching it again, despite a dozen tries. By that measure it&#x27;s the best horror movie of all time.

Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in 2024?

the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely

Any good alternatives for &quot;adopt: Blank Spaces app&quot; on Android?

The History of Wordstar is there for the second year in a row :)