⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.

Every now and then you hear outrageous claims such as “Python has no preprocessor”.

Curly braces for blocks, increment and decrement, and C-like preprocessor directives. The most arcane Python hacks!

Стажёром я получал мало, джуном получаю нормально.

The weirdest old-school text adventure on the internet.

How to record from mic well. Place mic on a good distance, dampen the area, post-process.

Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.

Good features and design. Want to try.

An IRC bot that generates a feed of links that are submitted by users.

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% of the floating plastic with the help of ocean cleanup systems and river interception technologies.

An online ditherer, now with color picker!

Тут можно купить ISBN напрямую физлицу. Стоит четыре килорубля...

A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer. - apache/incubator-ans...

The screenshot looks nice.

• https://github.com/apache/incubator-answer

Programs and writings.

Protocols for synchronisable data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

Random dev notes about work at Bluesky by Paul Frazee

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol?

Blog of independent video game developer and digital media artist Matt Sephton. Featuring vintage Macintosh, game development, digital artwork, Japanese esoterica, video game reviews, hacks and tips, and much more.

The idea is you set up a Stapler Document per project containing related apps, files, folders, etc. Then you can open them all at once by launching the single document. Each document contains a list of aliases that can be managed, inspected, launched using the app. The key time-saver is that if you launch a Stapler Document directly, all the items in its list will automatically be launched. Cool!

I actually wanted that! And this one is a remake of a classic app. Cool.

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}

Code discussions contain relevant information. Isn’t it a shame that we
keep these in the centralized GitHub/GitLab servers, far away from our
decentralized Git code? As soon as we move provider, we’ll lose all old
discussions! And how do you ever find the pull requests back from 5
years ago? Symfony has implemented a lightweight solution to this problem
years ago using a less-known feature of Git: Git Notes.

linkblocks is a tool for helping with this kind of deep exploration through the web.
With linkblocks, you can do three things: You can bookmark what you find on the web, you can structure your bookmarks, and you can exchange bookmarks with other people.
Organizing bookmarks works by linking them together, just like on the web. You can follow links to explore the websites you and others have collected. Bookmarking and linking on linkblocks is like publishing your own small website, saying “This is the good stuff”.

Why you should use and write man pages.

Local documentation that is easy to find is so much better. And man pages are powerful.

Futura!

Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull ...

Brings together ActivityPub and Solid Pods and empowers developers to create truly decentralized applications.

Klondike Solitaire game for Varvara.

The specs.

The radial menu for Mac tailored to your active app. Speed up all your favorite programs with only one shortcut!

Experiments, technology, and thoughts on life.

Be bold when editing pages here. There are few times when you need to ask before making a change. In general you should “ask” by just making the change. If someone doesn’t like it, they will undo your change.

By the same token, don’t take it personally when others boldly change what you wrote. And don’t be offended if someone undoes your change with minimal explanation; feel free to ask if you don’t understand the reason.

Yet another dialect of Markdown here!

Zine on decentralized tech and other open stuff. Good design, many pages. Is it really a zine at this point?

via astynax

Красота

Вебдевер. В момент сохранения этой закладки он ведёт у меня семинар в компании про интернет и вёрстку. Видать толковый человек.

UPD. Рассказывает совсем базовые вещи про типографику. Что такое неразрывный пробел, что такое тире, когда что писать надо. Мне это всё знакомо с 14 лет, но для большинства людей это в самом деле полезно будет узнать на старости лет!

Конечно же не обошлось без типографа Лебедева и нелепой типографской раскладки Бирмана. Я уж надеялся без них обойдётся. А про главред расскажут?

UPD. Узнал про text-wrap: balance и pretty! hyphens: auto. line-clamp, clamp. cqi, cap.

For those times when you need a Gameboy camera but only have a phone.

dithering camera online!

dithering online!

any variable named SECONDS will automatically increment every second. Bash is bonkers

Ещё один клон старого ВК. Мне дали доступ к какому-то аккаунту. Автор проекта заметил, что я в сети, и начал со мной разговор. Обсудили чуток, прикольно. Пожелал ему удачи и попросил сделать RSS-ленту, чтобы я подписаться мог.

Request web pages and other documents through email. They get turned into plain text, sadly, and Unicode gets removed.

via Devine in this cool Merveilles thread by Luci who thought of something similar:

• https://merveilles.town/@zens/112849957122568227

E is a very small text editor in the style of Emacs, microemacs,
JOVE, etc.
It implements many of the common Emacs commands.
It does not have an extension language.
It does let you rebind keys.
It runs in a terminal or terminal emulator only.

Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991.*

vintage!

ACME Labs is proud to make available a variety of software,
all free, some trivial, some massive, all high-quality.

vintage!

Хорошее введение в мемех на русском.

HTML for email is probably the hardest code to write. Even a teeny-tiny deviation from the rules will break the email in untold combination of os/desktop/mobile clients.

It's mid 2024. Almost 50 years since email was invented and 35 years since HTML was born. A 'basic-open-source-HTML-email-designer' must be a solved problem, right? We thought so too.

Sadly, that's not the case.

There are a few decent open source email designers but they carry dependencies that make them cumbersome to embed within your app. That's why we decided to open source our HTML Email Designer.

The SENDUNE email designer focuses on simplicity and ease of use. It is light-weight. It does pure HTML - no intermediate code wranglers like mjml. There is no lock-in of any kind. Save HTML output as a template and use with ANY email service provider.

Useful Java AOP Aspects is a collection of useful AOP aspects and Java annotations which allow you to modify the behavior of your Java application without writing lots of duplicate code.

Linked in the Elegant Objects book.

График и динамика цен аренды однокомнатных квартир в Казани. Статистика обновляется Restate.ru в автоматическом программном режиме 1 раз в 2 недели, исходя из более,чем 1 млн. актуальных объявлений по всей России.

Что мы видим? Прошлый (2023) учебный год привёл к значительному скачку цен на квартиры где-то с 22к до 30к, что в принципе вполне сезонно. И этот пик не сошёл до сих пор! Более того, с апреля 2024 пошёл ещё один скачок цен, в этот раз вызванный, я так понимаю, подорожавшими ипотеками. Скоро будет ещё скачок, вызванный новым учебным годом, а в ноябре будет ещё один из-за КФУ. Полагаю, близость саммита ШОС не даёт ценам упасть.

Что имеет. Средняя цена -- 35 килорублей за однокомнатную квартиру. Исторический максимум! Вот за такую цену примерно придётся мне снимать...