Replacing all magic numbers with variables/constants is not always good. Think.

If there is one principle that should be added to the UNIX philosophy, it is:

"Finish your project."

Let me list my finished projects.

• Uh...

I can't even say Mycorrhiza is finished despite it being in maintenance mode!

P2P technology is doomed on mobile [because of small batteries]. For a democratic web, we need to work on federation.

The author thought so in 2016. 8 years later I'm developing for the federated web, cool. I like how they mention Diaspora, which is history now.

If you feel unsure about colors, then do not use colors. Black on white is enough. Syntax highlighting might be an exception, but even there black on white is ok.

Martin came up with the idea of using something like the roots from semitic languages for naming things. I thought of the same before I read this article, but it's good to have it written down by somebody.

bees

The OpenSearch description format can be used to describe the web interface of a search engine. This allows a website to describe a search engine for itself, so that a browser or other client application can use that search engine. OpenSearch is supported by (at least) Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Chrome. (See Reference Material for links to other browsers' documentation.)

Flancian recommended me this tech. I might want to implement it for Betula, maybe. Gotta investigate.

a simple, multi-tenant feed reader

While not as rigorous as systems like Darcs and Pijul (which are based on a formalized theory of patches

An ActivityPub debugging instance? Gotta take a look, probably.

A wiki on Thinkpads and Linux.

Another thinkpad post for my collection.

Archive whole YouTube channels.

RapidAPI for Mac is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native macOS interface to compose requests, inspect server responses, generate client code and export API definitions.

Grishka recommended me this for HTTP probing. It helped me!

Libre audio books. Recommended by Flancian.

Written before the Fedi times.

Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.

Via https://t.me/linguopunk/549

Арабская книга 14 века с собственным тайным алфавитом для тайных записей

Viktor asserts that being a night person means that you go to sleep late not because it's your organism demand, but because it's your habit, id est it's your choice. I'm writing this as I'm transitioning to being an early bird.

Then he gives some motivational talk.

Tedu. The person that developed projects I want to develop too five years ago already with the same stack for some reason. Author of Honk, Inks, Azorius and whatnot.

Orwell said:

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

All about hypertext!

Introduction into ternary logic.

Most approaches that have been proposed fall into one of four categories: (1) reliance on hard copy, (2) reliance on standards, (3) reliance on computer museums, or (4) reliance on migration. Though some of these may play a role in an ultimate solution, none of them comes close to providing a solution by itself, nor does their combination.

On archival.

It's about dinosaurs, not VCS.

A less profane and Oedipal manifesto for a better World Wide Web

Matthew teaches us how to make websites. I like this one better than the other one because it's, well, “less profane”.

inks source code

huh, tedu had something like betula for idk 5 years already and ive only learned that??

⚡ Automates terminal operations.

Turn Mastodon into your feed reader

🗿 + 🎮 = 😎

From table hacks to CSS kludges, these are some of the techniques that helped web developers get their fancy pages on the internet.

All these retrogrades usually forget about Unicode updates! If your finished software does not support the newest writing system, then something is wrong. Well, I'm just saying. Actually, I like finished software! One day, I'll write one.

It is widely believed that it is normal to become less physically active as you get older. But this is a pernicious myth about exercise.

Working out is beneficial when you're old. Well, I'm young, and I'm already crumbling. I should work out, I really should, but I don't like doing it...

Gitpod is a cloud development environment for teams to efficiently and securely develop software. Improve your team's developer experience by coding in a CDE.

Mysh recommended me this.

История опен-сорса в России. Надо почитать.

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows

Hi! I'm novie. I like computers and other things. This is my little corner of the web, where I dump random thoughts and knowledge.

Another Mycorrhiza wiki dropped! This one is pretty fun.

Хорошее введение в иероглифы. Я это всё знал, что показывает совсем уж входной уровень материала, но интересно всё равно.

Смешной текст о том, что питон учить не надо. Я Питон не люблю, но тут совсем кринж!

А мне папа как-то говорил, что вот атомы на самом деле пустые так-то. Вроде бы логично, но мне не нравилось, я не принимал. А вот тут статья попалась. Пишут, что это, оказывается, популярный миф. На самом деле атомы очень даже полные. Всякие элементарные частицы не точки, про корпускулярно-волновой дуализм не забываем. В статье стараются популярно объяснить, как это работает. Я не всё понял, но поверил.

Результат всего этого счастья нужен в режиме реального времени и крайне важен. Пропускать нельзя ни одного замера, потому что основную работу по анализу данных исследователи выполняют после окончания эксперимента. Поэтому всё это богатство данных, помимо показа на экране, придётся записывать на жёсткий диск. Все 1,3 гигабайта данных в секунду. И потом читать в Matlab'е, NeuroExplorer'е или другой программе. Система, которая сохраняла 99,99999% данных, не прошла контроль качества и была забракована, потому что теряла до 13 тысяч замеров каждую секунду.

В комментах пишут ещё:

я долго мечтал войти в медицину и больше 5 лет пытался работать с врачами. в итоге пришёл к печальному выводу, что это очень трудные во взаимодействии люди. не умеют мыслить структурно, стараются постоянно держать лицо, привыкли к строгой иерархии и за её пределами работать не обучены. так что непреодолимое и авторитарное требование виндовса тут неудивительно.

Статью написал Alex Hitech, что уже показатель качества. И комментарии у него заводные:

Мозг необязательно должен быть человеческим. Большинство исследований мозга выполняются на крысах и мышах, — их мозг очень похож на наш, а стоят они не в пример дешевле.

Are search results getting worse? Yes, they are. Also, Marginalia is quite nice. Maybe I should give it a go as my main search engine?

I have been responsible for the MediaWiki installation on https://wiki.openttd.org/ from ~2005 till 2020. One thing became clear: it is very difficult to keep it up-to-date and to find quality extensions that live for more than a few years.

So, we set out to find an alternative. With the experience we have had with for example BaNaNaS we ideally would like to store all the data in git. This is mostly as data in git is easier for more people to maintain, then a database where very few people have access to. Also, the wiki of OpenTTD was not big enough (~5000 pages) to really need a database to support it. As extra bonus, we would favour any system that could easily be cached.

The software closest to this is gollum. Although gollum appears to do exactly what we want, especially as wikitext is supported via WikiCloth, reality turned out to be something else. Although it does support wikitext, or a subset thereof, it does not support templates. This is a huge issue for any real wiki, as templates make a wiki of any decent size possible. Initially we did hack in support for templates, but as it is written in Ruby, not a language any of the people involved knew sufficiently to make any decent contribution, it only added more issues than it resolved. In the end, it was decided this was not a road to go.

A friendly programming language from the future.

The big idea behind Unison is that its functions are hashed and content-addressed.