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Make yours and everybody else's lives slightly less terrible by having all your programs print out their internal stuff as pictures; a thread Virtually every program I write

does /xyz$/ match "xyz\n" in pcre's multi-line mode? yes. Does it match also in not multi-line mode? also yes. *because there's a special case for \n at the end of

If you ever write a compiler, I have some advice for you:(a thread) - Don't be afraid. - Keep your terminology consistent. It's more important here than in most programs.-

Well hello there, I'd like to share some code I wrote in, oh gosh, 2008. I don't actually have the code any more. But here's a picture I drew of

We ran Flash in firefox, in wine, on Linux.It was too slow to play video.Flash doesn't have permission to execute stuff,so we used AJAX to a local httpd.That ran a

It's 2005 and I'm working for a small, terrible company that doesn't deserve to exist.Most companies don't. This one is no different.A decent amount of the VC budget went up

FAQ about displaying stuff in a terminal Q. Kate which terminal is that!? omgA. The terminal I use is called kitty. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ Other terminals can display images, too.Go and read this:

Do you think pcre syntax was designed by humans, or was it machine evolved? i am a regular expression syntax designed by: humans machines beelzebub, Lord of the flies (but

Making the moomin in my profile picture thread Here's Tove Jansson's original drawing. He's swimming downwards, see? And the plant has eyes. I love how dark some of these illustrations

In C, what does NULL look like, byte by byte in memory? Okay, results are in!Not much love for 0x55555555 huh?Well first let's see what the C standard says.Hm, so