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Importing audio along with the text is a big one. Failing that some sort of TTS would be very useful.


Battery life on the second page.


Because some believe alzheimer's is another form of diabetes. [1]

1. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-a...


Very nicely done. I'd love a version of this that worked on Linux as well.


Thanks, agreed.

If there is linux support, one direction it could go is configurable chef script to setup a linux webserver. Where the sweetspot is those one-off linode servers you have to scrap together for a small project, where a full chef-server would be overkill.


What is the definition of a real lisp? AFAIK lisp is just a family of computer languages. Elisp certainly isn't the most powerful or full featured but it still seems to have most of the characteristics.


> What is the definition of a real lisp?

Something that makes people fight over whether Scheme is a real lisp. Something that makes people fight over whether Dylan is a real lisp.

In short, there really isn't one. Unless you say that all real lisps adhere to the Common Lisp standard, which isn't, actually, a common position to find anyone taking in real life.


Another good option is destroy-all-software [1]. Very cheap too.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts


This looks awesome.


Why is it so many forth websites look so... plain?


Because they spent more time on the code than they do on the wrappings. Forth is a really neat, minimalist language, that minimalism is probably a selection criterion for the way people would look at the websites hosting this stuff. Likely they see it as just another mass storage device.

Personally I think we could do with a bit more of this and less eye candy, I've seen tons of really nicely packaged blog posts announcing some project or other only to see it founder a couple of months, weeks or sometimes even days later.

I'd much prefer people first building something and announcing it on a 'crappy' web page like this.


Yes!


I think that goes for a lot of programming languages. You're just "spoiled" by some sites of languages heavily involved in web programming (and especially the sites of the frameworks and libraries used for that). I'm actually a bit wary about "beautiful" sites, as often it means that this is "web designer code"…

Also: age. Not many Forth sites are very recent, so often you'll gaze into the abyss that is the 20th century web…


Simple: The average Forth developer has absolutely zero interest in fancy user interfaces and design.


I imagine they wanted to access the site from the OS itself, with a text-only browser.


Some counter arguments for those interested.

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...


... I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches ...

You may have missed the news about this plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...


They should be warning about the flour.


White flour


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