If strcpy is not easily replaced with memcpy then the code is
fundamentally wrong. Either it’s not using strcpy correctly or it’s
doing something dumb and should be rewritten. Highlighting such problems
is part of what makes memcpy such an effective replacement.

There used to be atlases of so-called “strip maps”, which are in a way precursors to modern navigators and metro line maps. The artist put less emphasis on legibility than modern designers do; they cared more about decorations. Beautiful!

Turn your Mastodon archive file into a standalone static HTML site. Easy to customize, easy to search, all posts also indexed not just chronologically, but on tag pages.

One of the most controversial things I believe about good software design is that your code should be more flexible than your domain model. This is in direct…

I do love this thing. I've got an in progress application that collates news I would like to read into an epub. Putting that file on the Minimal Phone gives me koreader as my 'fidget' app. Instead of getting lured into an infinite scroll app, I just read some news I curated for myself. Hoping this drives my overall phone usage down.

Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.

Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping - go-jet/jet

building worthwhile things that might last

Apertium is a rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Alex got inspired by chat bubbles and considered adding them to Oddμ. Mentions something called Gibberish, which I will bookmark next

Chat bubbles are cool.

I told him he would need a special syntax for that and he got scared. He also liked a quote of mine: “it’s impossible to keep a publishing system pure Markdown”.

Few people know how to use computers.

“JUST” It's one of the worst four-letter words I know.

Автора бесит слово «просто». Меня тоже! Я вот стараюсь его искоренить из себя. Непросто это всё!!

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Another unfortunate Fediverse developer shares their woes.

Как же японцы читают китайские стихи? По-китайски? Самое интересное, что нет.

Японцы читают, конечно же, по-японски - переставляя слова согласно японской грамматике и добавляя японские окончания, которые пишут азбукой. Если китайский текст длинный, то сбоку приписывают специальные символы, которые подсказывают, в каком порядке нужно читать иероглифы по-японски.

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水を掬すれば月、手に在り

A story about Walls in MtG and Rosewater's character growth. I didn't know walls existed!! Looked them up. I want a Wall of Swords...

Doldrusidus is an open-ended, obscure simulation realized as a multiplayer game taking place in a small universe. At its core, the engine is a simulation of entities possessing a number of different components that represent their properties. One such property is the ability to emulate machine code assembled for the uxn fantasy architecture.

• https://desertslug.itch.io/doldrusidus