Printing Lists
To print a comma-separated list, a concise idiom is to optionally print the comma first, before the element:
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Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig's new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring just use threads impl. I personally find it neat though --- it does this weird thing that I wanted to do for ages, that to my knowledge no one else is doing properly, and implements it better than I thought to be possible.
Memory Safety's Hardest Problem
Uplifting a lobsters comment for easier reference.
CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document what I have so far.
TIL: Symlinking NixOS Dotfiles
The standard answer to managing dotfiles on NixOS is home-manager. I've never used it, due to two aesthetic and one practical objection:
Always Be Blaming
A few tips on 4D-ing your code comprehension skills.
Catch Flakes On Main
A small Mechanical Habit today:
Learning Software Architecture
In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:
Steering Zig Fmt
Two tips on using zig fmt effectively. Read this if you are writing Zig, or if you are implementing a code formatter.
Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts
Out of the box, Zig provides minimal and sufficient facilities for error handling --- strongly-typed error codes. Error reporting is left to the user. Idiomatic solution is to pass a Diagnostics out parameter (sink) to materialize human-readable strings as needed.