Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@fabio @programming

I love this quote from the late Joe Armstrong (#erlang )

Joe Armstrong, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009) Peter Seibel , page 213

https://baldir.fr/citation/joe-armstrong-you-wanted-banana-got-gorilla-holding-banana-and-entire-jungle/

5. For currency to work, you have to be able to use it to buy things. To pay your employees, your vendors, your rent, your taxes, your babysitter, etc. And to have all agree on its value. Crypto ain’t that.

Good grief. Just (for reasons) looked at the original RabbitMQ announcement press release. My (at the time) personal email and phone number are in there as the point-of-contact 😅

I've just found fox and swapwm (a minimalistic #Forth and a #WindowManager written in it), and I'm in awe. There are so many cool projects out there!

https://hg.sr.ht/~telesto/fox

"2025-05: GNU Taler v1.0 released – We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.0."

This provide a payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.

🥳 https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html

#gnutaler #Version1 #v1 #gnu #taler #switzerland #release #alternative #privacy #friendly #fastandeasy

@crc You argue from a serious point, thus you missed the nonsense.

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @ada@zoner.work snac deals with a lot of JSON strings, all data is stored in JSON files on disk, sent as JSON over network, etc. Handling the data as loosely typed strings most of the time is likely cheaper than marshaling everything into well-typed "objects" and then serializing them back again on I/O. I haven't delved much into the implementation of xs myself, but I used it when I wrote a few patches for snac, and it was acceptable to use. I've been using snac for a few months, and it's much better on resources than any other major AP software I've seen, so I don't have complaints about the performance of parsing doubles :)

I still see snac as "worse-is-better" software, which I don't like much, but at least it's simple enough to start doing meaningful patches within a couple of hours of diving into it, and definitely cheaper for me than having to write a whole AP server from scratch, which I was tempted to do before.

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected

We don't forget that on Haiku we also have some really nice native applications, one of them being StreamRadio.

An application native to Haiku to search for and listen to internet radio stations.

https://github.com/HaikuArchives/streamradio

#HaikuOS #nativeprogramming

@kottke

This is very nice. But looks like AI generated. For example, look at the number plate.

Edit to add this: There is a WWII veteran with the same name, but he died in 2020.

movie programmer, smug: i pulled it off with a hack

irl programmer, deeply ashamed: i pulled it off with a hack

As computer keyboards get smaller and smaller, I can't help thinking, that eventually we'll reach a point of no return