Where Should Visual Programming Go? @ tonsky.me
Where Should Visual Programming Go? There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.” (the dot is part of the title ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). In it, Sebastian argues that we shouldn’t try to replace all code with visual programming but instead only add graphics where it makes sense: Most visual programming environments fail to get any usage. Why? They try to rep
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
This is my claim: we, as a civilization, forgot how to center things. I mean, we know how to do it. It has never been simpler: display: flex; justify-content: center; /* Horizontal centering */ align-items: center; /* Vertical centering */ (don’t ask why you need to remember four words instead of just horizontal/vertical, it’s still better than before) Or you can use grids if you want: display: gr
JavaScript Bloat in 2024
Translations: Korean Russian I was a bit out of touch with modern front-end development. I also remembered articles about web bloat, how the average web page size was approaching several megabytes! So all this time I was living under impression that, for example, if the average web page size is 3 MB, then JavaScript bundle should be around 1 MB. Surely content should still take the majority, no? W
A case for ClojureScript 2.0
A case for ClojureScript 2.0 I was complaining the other day about the ergonomics of ClojureScript and realized an interesting thing. Quick context: Clojure is a modern Lisp. ClojureScript is a Clojure dialect that compiles to JS. From its very beginning, it relied on the Google Closure compiler in an elaborate plan to confuse people with Clojure/Closure naming (joking). It has two important compi
Font size is useless; let’s fix it
Font size is useless; let’s fix it Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian What happens when you set "font_size": 32 in your favorite editor? I would’ve told you anyway, but I’m glad that you asked. Let’s try to guess. I am using Sublime Text 4 on macOS: If we measure letters themselves, number 32 is nowhere to be seen: 32 is not the width or height of a letter, neither is it a capital letter heigh
Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021
Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021 Every year I participate in ICFP Contest, or ICFPC for short (ICFP stands for International Conference on Functional Programming). This is a team coding challenge that lasts for 72 hours and in which you have to solve a series of very hard tasks by writing (functional) code. Tasks are usually too hard to find a perfect soluti
Emoji under the hood
Emoji under the hood Translations: Chinese Russian For the past few weeks, I’ve been implementing emoji support for Skija. I thought it might be fun sharing a few nitty-gritty details of how this “biggest innovation in human communication since the invention of the letter 🅰️” works under the hood. Warning: some emoji might not display as expected on your device. In that case, use this text versio
Time to upgrade your monitor
Time to upgrade your monitor Illustration by Julia Litvin Translations: Chinese Russian I am a programmer. I do not deal with digital painting, photo processing, video editing. I don’t really care for wide gamut or even proper color reproduction. I spend most of my days in a text browser, text editor and text terminal, looking at barely moving letters. So I optimize my setup to showing really, rea
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