Sounds like it may eventually turn into an interesting replacement for Pandoc then, but I will stick to the latter for now.
What I like about seeing a project support a long list of totally irrelevant old obscure platforms (like Free Pascal does, and probably GCC) is that it gives some hope that they will support some future obscure platform…
Official Android with Google Play and all the things some apps require will almost certainly refuse to run if a hypervisor is detected. Maybe someone could get it to work, but it would be a struggle to stay ahead of…
I sometimes bring a bt keyboard to use my phone as a tiny almost-laptop, but mostly happy with something just the size and weight of a phone. Used to have two phones ~10 years ago. A Jolla Phone was my primary phone…
My next phone will almost certainly be two phones. One cheap and super standard Android phone to just run banking apps and similar that insists on Google Play etc. Locked down and boring, turned off most of the time.…
About mobile app, I never used pass until today, but it seems great, and so far I only tested it by installing it on my phone in Termux. Can't think of a reason for me to use a special app when running it in Termux…
I shut down my server the other day after people on HN were sharing horror stories about runaway bandwidth bills. I could not find a good (easy) way to ensure that my gemini server shuts down if hit by DDOS. I want to…
Some clients have a setting to inline images, or/and a shortcut to do so on the current page. Most clients can display images when the user follows a link to one. So images are quite useless as decorations (as most will…
I have an old MeeBlip synth. It is basically a box with some knobs and switches and a cheap 8-bit Atmel AVR inside, similar to the processor in some old Arduinos. Source code is available (I think this repo:…
Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?
Good thing about Markdown is that the lack of a proper spec means you can pick one you like (when possible). Pandoc for instance treats input Markdown line-breaks in a sane way, allowing semantic breaks to not affect…
Also this older clone: VGA Paint 386 (https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/) It runs in DOSBox, making it a bit easier (imo) to get running on most computers (and Android devices) than old Amiga software (even if…
I was never part of the scene, but I did write code for a couple of demos and had friends in various groups. I just wasn't much interested in making non-games, and no one I knew were interested in making games. Made me…
Sorry, but I don't think a preference for slow evolution is always because of laziness. What's wrong with wanting to keep improving on a skill instead of having to waste time relearning things every six months? Software…
Plain text files and version control win again.
Much of this begins with the customers. If they were better at identifying their real needs and specify the most simple possible tools they need, we would not have to deliver bizarrely complex does-everything bloated…
I remember reading blogs (and Testing on the Toilet) around 2010 about how Google divided tests into Small/Medium/Large, with specific definitions, rather than trying to use more vague and overloaded terminology that no…
I configured Firefox to only ever auto-complete to bookmarks or open tabs, never some random thing from my browser history. That also makes it very easy to find specific pages and I do not have to memorize any tags.
There is only one Rust application (server) I use enough that I try to keep up and rebuild it from the latest release every now and then. Most of the time new releases mostly bump versions of some of the 200 or so…
I tried to make some LLMs write (GW-)BASIC and they failed miserably. Maybe they were only trained on some modern BASIC that doesn't look like BASIC at all? Could not convince them to use line numbers at all. Maybe with…
Android also allows apps that can run arbitrary code, like emulators and various other runtimes. I think iOS still doesn't? I have not written an Android app in ages, other than at work, but I often write silly little…
Incidentally so do many cheap games.
I was an undergraduate (computer) engineer student, but like many of my friends at that time (dot-com boom) I did not graduate since it was too tempting to get a job and get well paid instead. However many, probably…
The fundamental problem is that git doesn't track branches in any sane way. Maybe it would be better to fix that? Fossil remembers what branch a commit was committed on, so the task branch itself is a change ID. That…
What bothered me for a long time with code reviews is that almost all useful things they catch (i.e. not nit-picking about subjective minor things that doesn't really matter) are much too late in the process. Not rarely…
Sounds like it may eventually turn into an interesting replacement for Pandoc then, but I will stick to the latter for now.
What I like about seeing a project support a long list of totally irrelevant old obscure platforms (like Free Pascal does, and probably GCC) is that it gives some hope that they will support some future obscure platform…
Official Android with Google Play and all the things some apps require will almost certainly refuse to run if a hypervisor is detected. Maybe someone could get it to work, but it would be a struggle to stay ahead of…
I sometimes bring a bt keyboard to use my phone as a tiny almost-laptop, but mostly happy with something just the size and weight of a phone. Used to have two phones ~10 years ago. A Jolla Phone was my primary phone…
My next phone will almost certainly be two phones. One cheap and super standard Android phone to just run banking apps and similar that insists on Google Play etc. Locked down and boring, turned off most of the time.…
About mobile app, I never used pass until today, but it seems great, and so far I only tested it by installing it on my phone in Termux. Can't think of a reason for me to use a special app when running it in Termux…
I shut down my server the other day after people on HN were sharing horror stories about runaway bandwidth bills. I could not find a good (easy) way to ensure that my gemini server shuts down if hit by DDOS. I want to…
Some clients have a setting to inline images, or/and a shortcut to do so on the current page. Most clients can display images when the user follows a link to one. So images are quite useless as decorations (as most will…
I have an old MeeBlip synth. It is basically a box with some knobs and switches and a cheap 8-bit Atmel AVR inside, similar to the processor in some old Arduinos. Source code is available (I think this repo:…
Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?
Good thing about Markdown is that the lack of a proper spec means you can pick one you like (when possible). Pandoc for instance treats input Markdown line-breaks in a sane way, allowing semantic breaks to not affect…
Also this older clone: VGA Paint 386 (https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/) It runs in DOSBox, making it a bit easier (imo) to get running on most computers (and Android devices) than old Amiga software (even if…
I was never part of the scene, but I did write code for a couple of demos and had friends in various groups. I just wasn't much interested in making non-games, and no one I knew were interested in making games. Made me…
Sorry, but I don't think a preference for slow evolution is always because of laziness. What's wrong with wanting to keep improving on a skill instead of having to waste time relearning things every six months? Software…
Plain text files and version control win again.
Much of this begins with the customers. If they were better at identifying their real needs and specify the most simple possible tools they need, we would not have to deliver bizarrely complex does-everything bloated…
I remember reading blogs (and Testing on the Toilet) around 2010 about how Google divided tests into Small/Medium/Large, with specific definitions, rather than trying to use more vague and overloaded terminology that no…
I configured Firefox to only ever auto-complete to bookmarks or open tabs, never some random thing from my browser history. That also makes it very easy to find specific pages and I do not have to memorize any tags.
There is only one Rust application (server) I use enough that I try to keep up and rebuild it from the latest release every now and then. Most of the time new releases mostly bump versions of some of the 200 or so…
I tried to make some LLMs write (GW-)BASIC and they failed miserably. Maybe they were only trained on some modern BASIC that doesn't look like BASIC at all? Could not convince them to use line numbers at all. Maybe with…
Android also allows apps that can run arbitrary code, like emulators and various other runtimes. I think iOS still doesn't? I have not written an Android app in ages, other than at work, but I often write silly little…
Incidentally so do many cheap games.
I was an undergraduate (computer) engineer student, but like many of my friends at that time (dot-com boom) I did not graduate since it was too tempting to get a job and get well paid instead. However many, probably…
The fundamental problem is that git doesn't track branches in any sane way. Maybe it would be better to fix that? Fossil remembers what branch a commit was committed on, so the task branch itself is a change ID. That…
What bothered me for a long time with code reviews is that almost all useful things they catch (i.e. not nit-picking about subjective minor things that doesn't really matter) are much too late in the process. Not rarely…