Inklings: 2021-04

How to be miserable for the rest of your life

🕑 2021-04-01T13:10:23+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Inside the HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add

🕑 2021-04-03T23:30:13+00:00; via www.osnews.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An odd bit of hardware I’d never heard of. It was contemporary of the 8008 and 6800, but had some very quirky design features that allowed it to be manufactured at a fraction of the cost. It’s use at the time seems to have mainly been in embedded systems and special purpose hardware.

Preact

🕑 2021-04-18T00:20:19+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API

If it even happens I need something like React, this seems like a decent alternative.

Mind you, it’s only 3kB if it’s compressed: the actual module is around 10kB.

Rust Language Cheat Sheet

🕑 2021-04-25T14:40:24+00:00; via news.ycombinator.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

bupstash

🕑 2021-04-25T20:04:33+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Seems like a reasonable alternative to Tarsnap in cases where it’s not practical. Mind you, the author still considers it alpha quality software.