Jordan Petridis @alatiera@mastodon.social

you know shit's going down when:

use std::ffi::CString;
use std::mem;
use std::os::raw::*;
use std::ptr;

#rustlang

I’d like to try out Vue, but I’m having trouble coming up with a side project where having a JavaScript UI library is an asset and not a toy. 🤔 thoughts/suggestions?

Working on a new tooltip API for plugins leading up to GUADEC.

Stop. Take three slow deep breaths.

I wrote up the behind-the-scenes story of "c2rust", a newly-released piece of software from my former employer, which people have been asking me about since it's quite similar to my own "Corrode" project. tl;dr: I have mixed feelings about it. https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/06/30/c2rust-vs-corrode/

hey everybody! just wanted to let people know that thanks to everybody who contributed to #500pieces we saved THREE TERABYTES of open, cc-licensed images from 500px over only two days!

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_500px

You can view the hard work of the volunteers at the IA collection, including dozens of people who heard about it specifically from mastodon. Thanks to @eq for providing the initial mastodon call for action!

this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company

Happiness Is An Empty RSS Feed Reader

Godwin's Law in the Age of Trump by... Godwin https://www.rstreet.org/2018/06/25/godwins-law-in-the-age-of-trump/

"The current state of web design" http://fczbkk.com/current-state-of-webdesign/

Actual thing I wrote in an email today: "Your metrics reporting library is adding 6 seconds to your page load." 🤢

Best part of doing private-room karaoke with a bunch of web developers is watching them identify, through careful trial and error, exactly which HTML tags and emoji the TV is willing to render

Meanwhile, in Russia...

why are all of the entries about math on wikipedia so bad 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐 it's like listen I know I messed up by not dedicating my life to math but I really need to understand this one concept can you just cool it for a second and help me out

　
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