Weird Lexical Syntax(justine.lol)

407 points by jart 2 years ago | 214 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post surveying surprising lexical syntax quirks across 42 programming languages learned while building a syntax highlighter for llamafile.

Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play(simonwillison.net)

22 points by havaloc 10 days ago | 12 comments

Simon Willison's blog post about Chirp Pong, a two-player phone game in static HTML that syncs game state via audio chirps, built with Claude Code.

My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's(blog.jgc.org)

109 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 24 comments

Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey(connorboyle.io)

74 points by signa11 1 year ago | 19 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Netscape Meteors(erynwells.me)

369 points by ingve 3 years ago | 108 comments

A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.