https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/rant/ Recent content in Rant on Hillel Wayne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk-v2/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk-v2/ img {border-style: groove; border-width: 1px;} I love Autohotkey so much that it keeps me on Windows. It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. Here’s a shortcut that opens my current browser tab in the Wayback Machine: #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") >!^s:: { Keywait("RControl") Keywait("RAlt") SendEvent("^l") SendInput("{left}https://web.archive.org/web/*/{enter}") } #HotIf By comparison, the official extension takes four files to do the same thing. Four files!1 But I come here to bury AHK, not to praise it. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-language/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-language/ I want to do $THING. Normally I do my hacking in Python, which is okay but has lots of frustrations. My friends tell me $LANGUAGE is better for doing $THING. After going through the online tutorial, I can see why. Maybe I’ll try $LANGUAGE for this project! Just a few things I need to figure out first: How do I install it? The docs say brew install, but I’m on Windows. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/the-problem-with-apls/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/the-problem-with-apls/ Note: I’m coming from this from the perspective of a J programmer. Maybe K or Dyalog or something solved this already, I don’t know, but I would be pretty surprised if they did. The more I work with an APL, the more I notice a serious problem. Not the weird symbols, you get used to that pretty fast. Not the write-only aspect, that’s annoying but can be solved with a good syntax highlighter.