℉ⅈℕℹℸℽ @finity@qoto.org

Watched a neat documentary on the making of #TRON.

There are "glitch" effects where everything is lighter for a quarter second. Those weren't intentional. The movie used literally tons of film from Kodak to shoot it, and they didn't realize until halfway through production that they hadn't controlled process to keep the film the same order it had come off the truck. If you keep it in order, small manufacturing fluctuations end up continuous through your shots and the human eye doesn't really notice; if you jumble raw film canisters, the difference can be up to half an f-stop and it's very noticeable.

But since the entire film was ultimately animated at the end, they solved the problem by animating in a little sprite or circuit surge or something every time the film quality jumped and several brighter frames spun through.

Fixed it in post. ❤

My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you. I've spent the last two years building Shopify's in-house cloud developer environment, and I have extensive experience building developer tools as one of members of the Homebrew package manager's Project Leadership Committee.

Whoop! 🎉 I've just called a #Rust #WASM module from my #Vite #Vue app!

It uses rsw with it's Vite plugin:

https://github.com/rwasm/vite-plugin-rsw

Good examples can be found here:
https://github.com/rwasm/learn-wasm

It requires a bit of config, but not too bad, given that it's bleeding edge.

What tripped me up in the very end:
You need to call `init()` first from your wasm module, otherwise error "wasm is undefined", when calling your function.

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/wasm-pack-without-node-js-npm/55949

#WebAssembly #WebDev #VueJS #RustLang

Common phases of bash script development:

1. Working out a one-liner interactively at the CLI
2. C-x C-e and then saving the one-liner into a file
3. Reformatting for linebreaks and legibility
4. Hoisting literal values into variables
5. Adding comments & print_usage()
6. Handling runtime configuration (config file, exported env vars, getopts)
7. Logging, verbosity, error handling & reporting
8. Restructuring for performance, legibility, logic
9. Promote logical flow to a different language

US friends, take note. I went to vote in Berlin today and this was the line in front of the polling station. “But wait! There is no line!” Indeed. There is no line because there need not be one. Because it’s about how polling is organised. If you are standing in a line for hours in order to exercise your democratic rights, it’s because someone wants you to.#polling #democracy #righttovote

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

🦀 GitHub and Rust

"So..... The short answer is that we built our own search engine from scratch, in Rust ....."
https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/

#rust #rustlang #rustaceans #programming #RIIR #github

Your daily #Pratchett

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

the Voight Kampf test scenes in Blade Runner, but instead it's just Harrison Ford like "please try to draw a woman with correct number of fingers or teeth."