2024-01-13 01:54:26 Well, I've been tinkering with RSS feeds this afternoon. Disappointing. Most news outlets only send the article title and just one sentence of summary to the feed. I suppose they expect you to click over to their website to read the whole thing, but of course that's exactly what I want to avoid. 2024-01-13 01:55:08 And it's clear this content was not crafted to be an RSS feed. They've just taken their website and ripped the text out of it, regardless of whether that makes any sense or not. Kind of shameful to call that an RSS feed. 2024-01-13 01:55:32 It's like taking AM radio quality and broadcasting on on FM frequency and calling that FM. 2024-01-13 05:05:03 Forth is addicting 2024-01-13 05:26:13 I'm finally having a chance to crack open Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems "for real" 2024-01-13 05:27:13 (the book in which you write a good chunk of a Lisp in Forth, then a Prolog in a mix of that Lisp and Forth; I'm getting around to putting together a logic language for a device with a lot slower of a CPU than I'm used to developing on...) 2024-01-13 06:49:01 taxevasion2: yes, it is addicting. 2024-01-13 06:49:24 remexre: Learning to do more with less is always good. 2024-01-13 21:53:49 omg i got does> working in a meta forth 2024-01-13 21:54:04 it's a forth inside of a forth, where code words are written in a lower-level forth 2024-01-13 21:54:37 and it is surely among the most confusing software i've ever written in my life 2024-01-13 22:06:07 this is where i start to question everything i'm doing. the appeal of forth to me is to have a language that is simple enough for me to DIY and replicate if ever required. but now i look at this, and it's so difficult for me to reason about, i'm not so sure it meets that requirement 2024-01-13 22:06:38 cross-compilable language, i should add