Show HN: Pith language. JavaScript with a little bit of Python syntax I've been writing a lot of JavaScript and Python lately. I like Python's syntax, so I created a language called Pith that's JS with some Python-like syntax (but without trailing colons). It's not a full compiler. It really just does search-and-replace, but I find it fun and useful in spite of some sharp edges. I use it on my smartphone to write and run short programs. Here's an example using the HN API: max = 6 ids = await getApi('topstories') for id in ids.slice(0, max) getItem(id) async def getItem(id) const d = document.createElement('div') results.appendChild(d) d.style = 'padding-bottom: 1em;' i = await getApi('item/' + id) ? i.title, '|', i.score u = '//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=' d.innerHTML = i.title.link(u + id) async def getApi(path) u = '//hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/' return getJson(u + path + '.json') https://ift.tt/lMbB0E2 September 2, 2022 at 12:47AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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