Erlang: How to browse ZX/Erlang source files on Windows

Windows is a profoundly annoying development platform for non-MS languages and a fairly rare deployment target so it doesn’t really get much in the way of attention or tooling. The smoothest Erlang experience on Windows so far is running applications via Vapor (a GUI frontend for ZX), but that depends on applications being developed and […]

Erlang: [video] The GUI experience on Windows with ZX and Vapor

I’ve written and spoken a bit about how ZX makes it easy to create, distribute and launch templated GUI projects in Erlang. I also showed how the (still ugly) GUI program launcher Vapor can make it easy for non-technical desktop users to use those programs. So far I’ve been doing my examples on Linux where […]

Zombies

IRC will never die.It will never die because its minimal implementation is useful. Windows will die, but only after rotting all the way through.It will continue to persist for the next few decades not because its minimal definition is useful (there is no minimal definition), but as a consequence of deliberate strategic choices that were […]

Hazards of the Windows yen-mark backslash

The fact that Windows fonts still default to displaying backslashes as yen-marks has been a perennial annoyance for me. A conversation about it today provided a wonderful illustration of just how irritating this can be. Here is what I saw:Here is what someone else saw: This is just a humorous example of technology gone stupid, […]