apaprocki
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Comment · 9 days ago
Yeah, I don’t think OP did anything wrong. Someone in the chain violated embargo, but it wasn’t OP.
Comment · 16 days ago
I wound up using a single whole slab of Dekton as a vertical backsplash highlight but otherwise used Silestone for the countertops precisely because nothing was impacting the backsplash but it was way more possible on the countertop.
Comment · 1 month ago
DLIB BLAN will take you to the playground
Comment · 1 month ago
So much has changed since that time. There's a great recent talk by Jason Williams and Paul Williams that goes into a lot of detail [1]. Most things now use TypeScript developed natively in VS Code using extensions and a CLI for the additional proprietary bits. That all nicely integrates with agentic workflows, skills, etc. ComDb2 is very relational, very battle-as-in-jepsen-tested and has been open-source for a long time now [2]. C++ is still king, but there's plenty of Python, Go, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, etc. running around.
Comment · 1 month ago
Oracle Studio C++ and IBM XL C++ still exist, but the old front-ends are almost dead. They were both able to achieve partial C++14 support before giving up and choosing a side. Oracle chose GCC, IBM chose Clang.
Comment · 1 month ago
We’re in the middle of TC39 plenary in Tokyo right now as a matter of fact! Rob regularly posts on X as things advance through the staging process, and today is the final day.
Agenda: https://github.com/tc39/agendas/blob/main/2026/09.md
Comment · 1 month ago
Hope you’re doing well! A lot has changed since then :)
Comment · 1 month ago
Some backstory on the font that Matthew Carter designed is here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/how-bloomberg-term...
Some people like it and projects like this have appeared: https://github.com/dchest/bergoom
Comment · 1 month ago
They ran iRMX on an 8080 variant and had graphics card that handled the A/V aspects. I suspected the displays could have actually been PAL because it had slightly higher resolution, but I haven’t been able to confirm that yet. I have one of those “Smithsonian” pieces on my desk waiting for me to have to some free time to try to repair the CRTs when I someday have more free time than I do now (any good resources for that??).
Comment · 1 month ago
It has never used qt in any way.
Comment · 1 month ago
You’re reminding me of this thread I found a long time ago where someone was talking about the old amber-screen library computers that felt FAST. The gif here shows what it would look like to read Twitter in that manner… https://x.com/apaprocki/status/1230241842928791552
Comment · 1 month ago
Here’s a great talk to get you up to speed! https://youtu.be/y1MCLZm8yAY
Comment · 1 month ago
This isn’t really true. The old terminal monitors are essentially dumb CRTs and the the museum pieces are just displaying the output from a regular PC running the modern app converted to an appropriate signal + BNC connectors so you see something and not just a black screen.
The old terminal hardware communicated over dedicated serial lines and worked in conjunction with many other “server-side” pieces of software that no longer exist, so it would be impossible to make one function as it did back in the day.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nowadays the desktop software is built around Chromium. Lots of C++ and one of the largest JS codebases in the world.
Comment · 1 month ago
Current models are amazing at one shot decoding hand written vital records. I thought there might be some friction, but if there is, I haven’t found any. I’ve unlocked lots of detail from records I already had just because I didn’t try to translate the handwriting due to the time required.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ap; my proof: https://keybase.io/ap/sigs/SYtj6sAMdb8hiO4D3m5al83Ak1RBvSEHZzN_9vDftg8 ]