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because it sure doesn't want me. i've spent the better part of 5 years trying to get started with a lisp, any lisp. clojure, scheme, common lisp, fennel, janet, chicken scheme, guile scheme, i feel like i've tried them all. i use a macbook, i use vscode, i use statically typed languages with fast, cracking language server implementations with lovely autocomplete and type hints and goto definition…
this website has incredibly fast load times, so much so that i felt compelled to enquire. words from the man himself : The answer is that I've spent a lot of time optimising exactly page speed. The biggest factors are small page sizes, and edge locations. Essentially, when you request a page from a Bear blog, it usually serves it from a server nearby to you, instead of the main Bear server which…
shame is a healthy emotion to feel and process. shame can lead to greater empathy, shame can aid with understanding anger. shame is just another emotion, and shamelessness as a default is an aberration. edit: i'm not sure why i wrote this.
1. Why did you make the blog in the first place? i'm not sure. i've seen it a bunch on hacker.news, bubbles.town, lobste.rs, seems like fun. 2. Why did you choose Bearblog? i think i was sold a little bit by the ethos of the platform. plus, it's "underpowered", it has barely any features. this is nice for me as i was going to just upload some html files with a single tiny stylesheet anyway. 3.…
i've been struggling for a while to make things. at work, i'm a founder and the sole "technical" person. i don't really have much opportunity to build software in the workplace anymore, it's mostly figuring out why the software that we pay for doesn't work. over the years i've started and abandoned many, many projects, something that i'm sure is relatable to most software engineers. over the past…