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sam.today
Personal blog · sam.today/blog · on HN as samtodayprogrammingsystems
sam.today is a personal blog at sam.today about programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on learning Nix: a 2018 tutorial on Nix shell environments and a simple Nix derivation 'Hello World' example. One comment instead cites Figma posts on QuickJS plugin sandboxing.
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What Hacker News says?
Apparently Figma still uses it for plugins, so there's that. It can be compiled to WebAssembly and run with the sandboxing of WebAssembly. Not just data sandboxing but sandboxing that can prevent it from slowing down the rest of the app (though it runs slower). Post from Figma in 2019: https://www.figma.com/es-la/blog/an-update-on-plugin-securit... This in 2023: "Either Figma hasn't updated QuickJS since, or they've…
Comment linking /blog/bumbling-the-figma-api
on “QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine”Submitted Derivations 102 – Learning Nix pt 4 as a story · 9 points
HN discussion>"To start with learning Nix; we need a way to experiment. Nix is a programming language, so we need a way to run our programs." Related: "Hello World" (in Nix expression language): https://www.sam.today/blog/creating-a-super-simple-derivatio... "Hello World" (in C, but packaged/built with Nix, in Nix expression language): https://github.com/zetavg/nix-hello-world
Comment linking /blog/creating-a-super-simple-derivation-learning-nix-pt-3/
on “Environments with Nix Shell – Learning Nix pt 1 (2018)”Submitted Coloring Korean Keystrokes: 11'172 Characters as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Environments with Nix Shell – Learning Nix pt 1 (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted S3's default Cache-Control is dangerous for browsers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Mako as a story · 1 points
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