Lisp (and Scheme) allows you to express complex systems and problem domains in more simple terms than any other language can. For all its brilliance, Haskell resists most of the attempts people make to just hack and write useful code quickly.

Researching early Unix and low-level systems, and I ended up spending a good amount of time with this: the actual source of the first C compiler, written by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. Everything we write today traces back to this. Worth reading if you haven't... source: https://github.com/jserv/unix-v1/tree/master/src/c

Started from a chat discussion in #general. tolwiz: > sdfsdf Here's a promoted chat to thread example!

Accessible via the `complex.h` header What other useless things have you encountered in C?

Started from a chat discussion in #general. ansuzgardraiwo: > How are you doing?

I was looking at pypistats.org for the boto3 package (broken down by Python minor version) and noticed something wild — around late March / early April 2025, daily downloads tagged as Python 3.9 jumped from ~10-20M to 60-80M+, basically overnight. The spike persists and hasn't returned to the old baseline. Every other Python version stayed flat. It's exclusively 3.9. Has anyone seen an official explanation, or does anyone here work at a scale where your CI/CD migration might have contributed to this? Would love to hear what actually happened. Link: https://pypistats.org/packages/boto3

Hey, I’m code_monkey_x. I mostly write Python and JavaScript for practical stuff, but I’m trying to get better at Rust and OCaml. I like automation, small tools, parsers, and occasionally rewriting something three times just to understand the tradeoffs. I’m here to learn, share small experiments, and find discussions that are more substantial than the usual social media noise.