Martin Vilcans

Writer of code and songs.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@ChristerEricson Thank you! It's a fun (not so) little machine.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

Wow, 15 years! But now you can find me at https://t.co/leBZF11xLa #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@bartwerf In my timeline there are only posts about AI now. I'm not a big user of this kind of social media but Mastodon is pretty nice.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

Is anyone still here?

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@mikaelemtinger Yes. Eating lacto-ovo-vegetarian is easy. Vegan is another level.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@hypp74 Email is super cool. A completely decentralized system based on standardized protocols. You could even host a server yourself if you wanted to!

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

Disabling email notifications from Twitter. For some reason half of it is now NSFW semi-nude content that never appears in my normal timeline.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@carnalizer Nice! I wonder what prompt he used. (:-)

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@clairevo The idea of using the word debt, from economics, to describe systems that are difficult to work with, was originally to make it easier for non-techies to understand it. That didn't work out well.

[Freya Holmér @FreyaHolmer]

I think it's great how we're using AI for things humans hate doing, like visual design, art, and voice acting, so that we're left doing only the fun stuff! like, methodically cleaning up slightly off work that someone else did

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@_ahungry @ernerfeldt If you really worry that much about the disk space and RAM usage on your productions servers that 200 MB matters, doesn't the Node.js runtime and libraries use more than that?

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

Exactly this is why #rustlang is awesome. There's a part in @ernerfeldt's conclusion that I would have put in the main list: that Rust is multipurpose. It's not just a C++ replacement. Rather it is an alternative to each of Javascript, Python, Java, C#, and Go in different ways.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@DemeoGame "I don't like teleportation. I prefer smooth movement."

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@alsarabee @fermatslibrary I'm intrigued. Please explain!

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@_ahungry @ernerfeldt I don't know what is 2.5 GB in your project, but it's impressive nevertheless.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@FreyaHolmer When they were used on tape decks, they were pretty good for explaining how two's complement numbers work. Rewinding from 000 gives 999, so the highest possible number (999) can be thought of as negative 1.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@_sorceress Thank you. I'll think about that.

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

I dreamt I read a magazine article about a 70s movie. There was a picture of an LA skyline in harsh sunlight with some men behind a fence in the foreground and one with Iggy Pop quoted saying "[the director] said I was perfect for the part of Mr Edo". Please analyze!

[Martin Vilcans @vilcans]

@LeaVerou @FremyCompany How complete do you need it to be? Here's one idea: Grab a list of English words, paste them into a Google Drive spreadsheet column. Put the TRANSLATE function in another column.