Hi! I'm Anton, Go developer and SQLite enthusiast. I work on open-source and blog about programming.
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I hope you are having a good week :)
Since the last issue, I've written a couple of interactive articles (meaning you can try all the code examples from the browser while reading):
API tutorials beyond OpenAPI pretty much sums up my approach and beliefs about writing interactive documentation (spoiler — we need MOAR of it). I tried to convey my ideas as clearly and visually as possible, and even drew some pictures by hand (which is quite rare for me).
Mastering curl is an interactive text version of the (absolutely fantastic) 3.5-hour workshop "Mastering the curl command line" by Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl.
Both articles are powered by codapi — the platform I'm building. Give it a try if you'd like to embed code playgrounds into your online course, documentation, or blog.
Speaking of playgrounds. I've made one for the Zig language, with syntax formatting, testing and code sharing. And another, simpler one for Odin.
Both languages don't have playgrounds on their home pages or docs, so I offered them to try mine. Guess what? They showed zero interest. I wonder if it's because they're generally not interested in presenting the language in a more accessible way, or if it's a problem with my proposal. Probably the latter.
Finally, I wrote a short post describing my HN experience — What to expect from upvotes on Hacker News. Someone posted it on HN, it got some attention, and the mods killed it immediately. So I'm offering you a truly unique experience of reading it now and learning the TRUTH they are trying to hide from us common people 😁
That's all for now! See you in about two weeks (or maybe a month).
Anton