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No Longer Set
Personal blog · nolongerset.comprogramming
No Longer Set is a personal blog at nolongerset.com about programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts cover release engineering tooling such as cargo-dist and Windows scripting, including VBA, VBScript and JScript deprecation. HN readers cite them as sources on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Advanced techniques and unique perspectives from a guy who pushes the limits of Microsoft Access software development. Warning: may contain strong opinions.
Most-linked posts?
- /vbscript-deprecation/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Correction on this someone else sent me: The check of interest is for a Mark Of The Web[0] flag that Windows includes in file system metadata. The builtin unzipping utility just faithfully propagates this flag to the files it unpacks. Other utilities like 7zip are unlikely to do this propagation (effectively clearing it). But yeah either way it has nothing to do with code signing! [0]: https://nolongerset.com/mark-o…
Comment linking /mark-of-the-web-details/
on “Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist”Submitted What the Vancouver Stock Exchange Can Teach Us About Rounding Numbers in VBA as a story · 4 points
HN discussionVBScript is deprecated: https://nolongerset.com/vbscript-deprecation/ JScript is deprecated, and is likely to be removed at some point too... CMD is often blocked on many people's machines due to group policy. PowerShell is really the only other option other than VBA, as discussed in the article. Only reason I haven't used PowerShell til now is the version was hidiously outdated and didn't even support classes... Of…
Comment linking /vbscript-deprecation/
on “Why do people still use VBA?”Didn't they recently deprecate this? https://nolongerset.com/vbscript-deprecation/
Comment linking /vbscript-deprecation/
on “Visual Basic for Applications Language Specification [pdf]”