Daniil Baturin @dmbaturin@mastodon.social

Latest #ocaml running on latest #openindiana

When choosing boring technology, there's a risk of choosing it just when it's about to switch from "proven and boring" to "dated".

https://soupault.app/blog/soupault-2.4.0-release/ Release time. There are now Lua type checking functions and an option to treat directories as page+assets bundles rather than sections.

Ok, only in Firefox. Chrome returns landscape=true on my desktop, but I wonder if it's because my screen it wider than it's tall or it's hardcoded.

I noticed that on desktop, both (orientation: landscape) and (orientation: portrait) CSS media queries return false.
Now I wonder if checking if they both are false is a reliable test for a desktop browser.

@lthms Just noticed that https://github.com/lthms/chain README links to a dead post on lthms.xyz rather thant the current URL at https://soap.coffee/~lthms/posts/ExtensibleTypeSafeErrorHandling.html

"Go Ask Embla", a romantic comedy based on the Poetic Edda.

ocamlbook.org is now officially dedicated to Betty Bourbaki, an imaginary daugher of the imaginary but influential mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki.

The Nyquist-Shannon-Kotelnikov-Chebotarev sampling theorem was discovered independently by four different people.
I wonder if there were already practical problems that group theory could solve in the early 19th century, Galois also would be one of four, rather than a misunderstood genius.
His real genius is in having found a solution to a whole bunch of problems no one even thought of at the time.

Turns out Lua supports multi-line string literals delimited by... double square brackets ([[ ]]) !
I'd never guessed, found that by reading Lua-ML's lexer code and then confirming with PUC-Rio Lua.

My first PR to the OCaml compiler repo has been merged. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/f3ff6892a7d42bada92fa03e1c5a7691e4fbf03d

Countries that have Internet censorship often block addresses and whole networks that were tangentially related to a service they wanted to ban, and they aren't on hurry to remove addresses from blocklists if censored service no longer uses them.

One non-obvious reason to use small, independent hosting companies over AWS et al. is that their networks are much less likely to suffer from that kind of collateral damage.

If you are using #soupault, please fill out this poll: https://forms.gle/2g2YdCB5RLRwmFxy8

https://soupault.neocities.org/tips-and-tricks/comparison/ if you are wondering how #soupault compares to other static site generators, here's an obviously biased comparison table.

https://soupault.neocities.org/blog/soupault-2.1.0-release/ #soupault 2.1.0 is released.
Now you can tell it to use a non-empty page as a template and replace its content, give it a few selector options to try inserting a file into, and more.

Footprints in the snow™ is a registered trademark of Claude Debussy.

Can anyone confirm or deny that Trello no longer works in Firefox?

https://forms.gle/MAT7ZE7RtxTWuNgK7 Don't forget to fill out OCaml-SF's "state of #ocaml" poll.

The free culture OCaml book finally has next/previous chapter navigation menus: https://ocamlbook.org/preface/

Automatically generated from a JSON file with chapter ordering data: https://github.com/dmbaturin/ocaml-book/commit/e70bb9bc51a306f2357e66ce389493ecf7eba5b2

https://soupault.neocities.org/reference-manual/#HTML.set_tag_name
It's now possible to add section links for headings that aren't included in the ToC in #soupault using the new max_heading_link_level option.