A toolbox language is a programming language that’s good at solving problems without requiring third party packages. My default toolbox languages are Python and shell scripts, which you probably already know about. Here are some of my more obscure ones. AutoHotKey Had to show up! Autohotkey is basically “shell scripting for GUIs”. Just a fantastic tool to smooth over using unprogrammable applications. It’s Windows-only but similar things exist for Mac and Linux.| Hillel Wayne
Hello! This post will likely be a bit shorter than the last. Today’s topic is a few thoughts about how complex it can be to parse human input, and how that interacts with Druid’s data model. Progress I think I’m nearly finished tweaking the ingredient editor. I’ve spent the better part of a month on just this one view and that might seem like overkill, but for software like this the user experience is the whole point so it’s important to get it right.| bheisler.github.io
Sometimes software pretends to be other software.| Hillel Wayne