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The Desktop Metaphor is Dead

· 4725 words · 23 minutes

The desktop metaphor, first in the Xerox Alto and then the Macintosh, is now 52 years old. It was a good solution to the problem of making non-technical knowledge workers use the computer effectively. But the real fact is that the desktop metaphor has died, and it is limiting computers.


Smallest Rust Hello World and other size coding shenanigans

· 1436 words · 7 minutes

I’ve been size coding some Rust, trying to make the smallest possible “Hello World!” program. After a few days, I’ve managed to reduce the binary size and make a mere 149 Byte Hello World!, (probably) the smallest 64bit one out there in Rust. I got bored so I also made a 540 byte brainfuck interpreter.