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A Programmer's Unexpected Hobby: The Allure of Knitting

2025-06-04

A programmer recounts his journey from staring at screens to the tactile experience of knitting. The article likens knitting to an open-world game, boasting a gentle learning curve and endless possibilities. The author shares the physical and mental benefits, the satisfaction of creating tangible objects, and encourages fellow programmers to try this activity as a way to balance work and life and create meaningful gifts for loved ones.

The Elegant Struggle: Designing Public/Private Members in a Scripting Language

2025-05-26

A developer, building a fantasy console project, grapples with adding a module system to their scripting language. Exploring various approaches to distinguish public and private declarations – modifier keywords (like Java's `public` and `private`), modifier sections (like C++), sigils in identifiers (like Python's underscore), export manifests (like Scheme), and sigils at declarations (like Oberon's `*`) – they lean towards a novel solution: prefixing declaration keywords with an underscore (e.g., `rec_` for private records, `def_` for private functions). While unconventional, this method offers conciseness and avoids repeating sigils at every use site.