Erik Terpstra @erikterpstra@mastodon.social

What if there was a "web" with:

1) "links" as either hashes (for immutable data), or public keys (for mutable channels, whose value is always one immutable link) - or, cheap local-memory-address equivalents of these two if on a fully trusted, purely local system. Assume a short-key-length PK system like NaCl / Curve25519

2) "documents" at links that are fairly small (maybe 1K to 64K) and consist of something like CBOR or BSON

3) a tiny pure-functional, immutable-data language over this

Check it out, Pocket Oberon*

#devterm #oberon

*ok maybe cargo pockets…

MicroFleng is a low level concurrent logic programming language descended from Prolog. A cross-compiler for UNIX-compatible systems is provided to translate programs written in FLENG into executable code for Z80 CPUs running CP/M, the Commodore 64 and Uxn, Oh, and it does.. GRAPHICS?!
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/microfleng/microfleng.html
https://gist.github.com/eterps/8019b0d78fe3bdf2c4125344402899bf

I have noticed a large portion of those on #Mastodon happen to be #Linux users and #FOSS advocates in general. Lets see just how many are.

What's your OS?

Ongekende ramp. Respect voor collega @Moorlag@twitter.com en vakvereniging @ieni@twitter.com die zich onvermoeibaar voor hun vak en beroep inzetten. We hebben een doorbraak nodig om het lerarentekort terug te dringen. cc @DennisWiersma@twitter.com

'Scholen schrappen vak informatica' https://www.aob.nl/nieuws/scholen-schrappen-vak-informatica/

Kort stukje in de Volkskrant over Mastodon https://www.volkskrant.nl/beter-leven/op-mastodon-een-alternatief-voor-twitter-is-de-sfeer-nog-ouderwets-gemoedelijk~b3c9d0de/

Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website.

Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.

Tip: gebruik een crossposter als je nog geen afscheid van Twitter wil nemen. Ik gebruik https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

This is Minime and I am also testing how to add an alt-text to a picture.

This can be done just after uploading the picture and then choose for edit (Bewerken in Dutch).

Alt-texts for pictures are very important!! People with eye sight problems use software that reads the information for them. So be sure to add alt-texts to your pictures online.