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Five Practices for Clean Lua

Having written tens of thousands of lines of Lua as well as several other langs, I have created guidelines for readable, maintainable, and even portable code.

I'm striving for a sanity that is very rare in the field of programming, that of simplicity. If you're using Lua on purpose, that should be appealing. Even if you're not using Lua, these ideas translate to Javascript and on some level any other language. In fact, following this paradigm makes your code more portable to C, to Rust, and to purely functional languages.

Even if it is not easy to adapt to this paradigm, by using it many headaches disappear. Good code is a narrow path. I can guide you to that path, but you must still walk it.

This article is inspired in part by this Gleam blog post, All you need is data and functions.

Firefox pretty sliding sidebar / pinned / active tab theme for Tree Style Tab

Features

Auto-sliding draw for TST
Leaves 'pinned' and 'active' tabs visible in standard browser chrome
Leaves 'last-active' tabs visible for 3 minutes after becoming inactive
Where an active tab is pinned, leaves 'last-active' tab (x1) visible for 1hr

Running Windows software on the Raspberry Pi (and other ARM devices) with Wine

Variance

The term variance describes how subtyping between higher kinded types is related to subtyping relations of their type arguments.

Higher Kinded Types

A higher kinded type composes type arguments to a new type. I use square bracket notation to define a higher kinded type:

C[T] // The higher kinded type `C` composes type argument `T` to a new type `C[T]`.

The same works with multiple type arguments:

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (~~HTTPS Everywhere~~ No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, ~~Privacy Badger~~ etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

Misconceptions about PouchDB

A quick rant.

PouchDB is slow, because it doesn't use bare-metal IndexedDB

OK, first off I want to point out the CanIUse table for IndexedDB. Go ahead, look at it. I'll wait.

	{config, pkgs, ...}:
	{

	# Enable Nginx
	services.nginx = {
	enable = true;

	# Use recommended settings
	recommendedGzipSettings = true;
	recommendedOptimisation = true;

	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>

	// munged from https://github.com/simontime/Resead

	namespace sead
	{
	class Random
	{

	import { useLayoutEffect, useCallback, useState } from 'react'

	export const useRect = (ref) => {
	const [rect, setRect] = useState(getRect(ref ? ref.current : null))

	const handleResize = useCallback(() => {
	if (!ref.current) {
	return
	}

	/*//
	//* This is perfectly ordinary C
	*//
	//* cc -std=c99 lol.c
	*// ./a.out justine 31
	//*/

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>