Regarding the recent Maven drama.

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

Designed to be embedded. A Lisp!

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

Ого, культура стрит-арта там посильнее, чем в Уфе или в Казани! Даже посмотреть захотелось.

An archiving HTTP proxy and on-disk archival format for websites.

Fediverse Developer Network

Kinda incomplete

Schroeder finds out he doesn't need Sitelen Mute, his custom gallery static site generator, anymore, since his wiki can host images just fine. It just shows how universal wikis are again!

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

Oh, that's how I should refactor Mycomarkup. Perfect.

I check this one every time

Fediverse Network Statistics

Mastodon is the biggest with big leap. Second is Lemmy (wow! big growth). Mastodon has 7.5 mln users, Lemmy has 622 k usrs. Misskey has 328 k users.

Learn about the history and purpose of quipus, the system of knotted strings that recorded data in the ancient Andean world.

Go bindings to the Lemmy API, automatically generated directly from Lemmy's source code using the generator in cmd/gen.

Alex Schroeder makes a review of Daniel Stenberg making a review of Gemini.

See /296.

Some people pull feeds way too often. Sometimes they do not get what they want.

I've wanted something like this for a long time. Intended for small graphs where laying things out by hand is not too painful, and it's nice that things don't move around every time I make a change, as happens with graphviz. The file format is also amenable to git; no long lines, and adding new nodes or edges doesn't reorder unrelated nodes and edges.

Look at what they have to do to mimic the fraction of Mycomarkup's lists.

The Screenless Office is a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system. The office presents a radically alternative form of everyday human interaction with media. It is constructed using free/libre/open hard- and software components, especially for print, databases, web-scraping and tangible interaction. Currently, it exists as a working prototype with software "bureaus" which allow a user to read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input. While our existing software allows for interesting new ways of consuming media, we are currently working to expand the system to make it capable of publishing content and thereby, enabling a provocative possibility for active participation in contemporary social life.

They haven't really got anything to show, and the project seems to be abandoned. And using so much paper, I don't know, seems not so good. But cool concept! I want to learn more, but how?