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💬 Text me (the dev)!Why I Still Reach for Lisp and Scheme Instead of Haskell
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.
Been studying the original C compiler from 1972 by Ritchie.
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
TIL that the standard library provides support for complex numbers
Accessible via the `complex.h` header What other useless things have you encountered in C?
What's behind the massive boto3 download spike on Python 3.9?
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
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Hey, I’m NightOwlDev. I started with C and still use it when I want to understand what’s happening close to the machine. These days I also write Rust for side projects, mostly small CLI tools and experiments with networking. I’m interested in low-level programming, Linux, debugging, and the kind of bugs that only show up late at night.
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