Statusbar app to quickly toggle between light and dark modes

I might want to use it in the future. Now, I just bind the following script to something:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode'

Solderpunk calls us Netscape orphans.

List of links about ActivityPub development. I'll need that.

Also this:

• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/activity-notes
• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/AP-networking

After four years, Honk 1.0 is released.

Make sure to read the source code, it's comedic:

• https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/f

Like Wordle, but about word etymology. Entertaining when you guess the words.

The text of Moby-Dick. I take lorem-ipsum-level texts from here. Also, a good book!

The scripts.

With this JavaScript script, you can keep your relative timestamps up-to-date without reloading. I'll do that if I ever fall into the trap of relative time.

This article helped me set up automated proxy toggling.

Fuzzy matcher for OS X that uses both std{in,out} and a native GUI

Works well.

Lightweight Golang ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and SQLite

Matthew finds deep distaste in his software engineering job but has no idea what to change. We'll all be there.

A small C compiler… for uxn.

This is a "proof-of-concept" project I started back in early March of this year. I wanted to see how difficult it would be to create a dungeon-crawler-esque RPG entirely in HyperCard.

An open-source activitypub network and fediverse database, powered by FediDB

The author talks about Lua designs and features they have mixed opinions about but always finds a reason to justify them.

Every time I read anything about Lua, I want to find a use for it.

Жиянов показывает язык Odin. Какой-то го, но низкоуровневый. Прикольно.

igdl is a Python script for downloading an image from a given
Instagram URL and either save it directly to disk or write it to stdout.
It will automatically pick the highest image resolution available.

snscrape is a scraper for social networking services (SNS). It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items, e.g. the relevant posts.

Supports many major social networks!

An app that lets you add various links and displays them in a column layout. You can create a unified dashboard of several social networks, news feeds, and such with it.

Seem to be good writings. Will read properly later. Didn't find any RSS though.

It might be worth to prepare your data for a big electric spark. The spark is unlikely, but still. Your safest bets are discs and paper, the two optical storage media.

Some abstractions are wrong. To get rid of them, inline them, rip the unneeded stuff, and forget about the abstraction. I want to rip an abstraction like that!

You can have a very time efficient set implementation with two uninitialized arrays. It's not space efficient though.

Tetralogy. The climate catastrophe is two years away (just by the time I'll finish the bachelor degree).

To save the planet, actions are needed. They are not done.

Also, further parts of the series talk about software.

if we fail to mitigate the climate crisis, we’re headed for a world where it’s expensive or impossible to get new hardware, where electrical power is scarce, internet access is not the norm, and cloud services don’t exist anymore or are largely inaccessible due to lack of internet.

Tobias tells us how a proper app theming mechanism is basically impossible in GNOME, and application ecosystems in general.

“Users” want a lot of things, but just because you want something impossible that doesn’t make it possible. In this case, it’s important to be aware of the costs of giving complete visual freedom to “themes”, both in individual app developer effort, and chilling effects on the ecosystem. If given a choice between customization and more, better apps, I’m confident the majority of people would prefer the latter.

Note that Betula is much more open to customization with CSS. It's a literal setting! I don't use it, of course. If I want to change something visually, I just push it upstream. Y'all folks can do the same, of course, but I won't accept everything. So you've got custom CSS. I think it works well.

Tobias told us about his past with a very elaborate riced Arch Linux config. Now he's a GNOME developer, who knows that it's better to contribute a better icon to the app than to update an icon theme; to use fish instead of zsh with a big config; etc. In general, invest time into things that scale.

I like his little remark towards the static site. I dislike his little remark towards self-hosting, although I see where he's coming from.

Command Palette in any applications

You don't really need it though. Just use the built-in menu items search.

Nikita migrated back to GitHub after migrating away from it after the Copilot controversy. Educative! I wasn't that radical in my migration so didn't really feel any downsides.

Sidenote: it is cute to see Nikita using =>links and =headings, but Markdown emphasis and links for some reason. Come on, this is a Mycorrhiza wiki, you have a proper syntax for both!

The gnomes want to make tiling the default window behaviour in GNOME. The came up with a new way of tiling called Mosaic. This might be interesting.

Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp.

Build your time capsule with epoxy.

Comparison of several terminal spreadsheets.

It is possible to host read-only SQLite databases on static file hosters. Might be useful in some cases.

How to fake dithering in CSS. This is kinda wrong, because the images themselves are left intact. Also, RSS doesn't know if this dithering.

TL;DR: Alpine is boring, this is good.

Recently I've had an issue with Alpine, which I had to resolve with some workaround from GitHub issues. But otherwise it's boring yeah. Cool. One day I'll use it on all of my servers! For now, I only use it on CI.

Parses HTML responses and rewrites a simplified light weight version.

Rewrite rules are written in lua using standard CSS selectors.

A Mercurial forge. Has a powerful vibe. Supports fo get.

Tedu's Mercurial repœ. I would've linked the root website instead, but there is no such thing. Collecting all of theirs' websites is a challenge which I will succeed in!

Somebody proposes something like a federated wiki. I'm skeptical.

Agora is mentioned in the thread!

The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns

Back in the salad days of the internet, I was always very curious about people who disappeared from a solid presence on the internet. Where did they go? Why did they go? What are they doing now? Do they still care about the things they wrote about? Are they still doodling, drawing, writing, taking pictures?

Felix shows us how little one needs to make a website.

Felix introduces us to the smol web. Use as starting point.

to me, it feels wrong. i don't write for meticulous care & growth, i write because i'm desperate to (connect, understand, remember, leave something behind)

it reminds me that i'll die someday & i want people to remember who i was, and how i thought. i leave tracings of myself in this abyss, hoping that it'll help other people. it's fragments of me.

that's no garden. it's a mortal abyss. and i find a lot of meaning staring into it.

An honest opinion on Docker. J3s thinks that Docker is useful when the application is too complex to install properly, and that developers should make the installation part simple instead of relying on Docker. Yeah, I agree.

This is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds, so you can link to other blogs you like on your own blog. It's designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator.

It generates cool things! Drew DeVault uses it.

Browsing projects on #Sourcehut reminds me of what FLOSS development looked like 15-20 years ago. Ugly interfaces that were just thin layers above the code, barely any README (let alone wikis, or any form of easily accessible and structured documentation), and let's not mention accessibility on mobile.

How are we supposed to build the foundations of tomorrow's FLOSS if we use tools that look even more outdated than Craigslist? How are we supposed to have any credibility when we tell people "stop using Github, try Sourcehut instead"? How do we expect to create user engagement? How do we expect somebody who's not a developer to use software that doesn't even come with an easily accessible documentation?

And the discussion is good. The endless discussion about SourceHut's UI+UX! My opinion: UI is good, UX not so. But I use it nevertheless!

This article made numbers on the fedded verses. It encourages everybody to ditch GitHub. The message makes sense. I've been reducing my GitHub presence. This article wasn't the trigger for me, but it was for many people. Maybe it will be one for you!

Nobody gets it nowadays :-( This article is very old and probably lying. The microformats wiki is not even up-to-date, full of cruft.