Kornel @kornel@mastodon.social
I compress pixels. Author of https://ImageOptim.com https://pngquant.org
this is how particle physics works
It's a recurring theme:
- Why does #Rust have <this weird syntax> instead of <the obvious one>?
- We've tried <the obvious one> in 2014 and found it had this <nasty side-effect>.
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tired: I googled it
wired: I DuckDuckWent for it
New homepage: https://crates.rs and category pages: https://crates.rs/multimedia/images #rust #rustlang
Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future
Yet again the "gig" economy is exposed as simple exploitation and an attempt to avoid hard-fought labour laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/24/deliveroo-couriers-dystopia-union
Interesting that Deliveroo say their work is supposed to be infrequent and used for pocket-money but the system of losing good shifts if you don't work as much as possible seems to encourage the exact opposite.
One of my all-time-favourite #Amiga demos: https://youtu.be/H2JNYOCWKxE?t=50 The music, sync, and smoothness on 30Mhz machines was brilliant.
I'm enjoying ructe template engine: https://github.com/kaj/ructe for #rustlang
It uses real HTML5 parser/DOM, proper auto-escaping, streams output, and it's ridiculously fast — the templates are compiled to native, low-level optimized code.
I'm positively surprised how useful and open #GitHub API is. Basic queries don't require authentication. Terms of use are relaxed. I was afraid it'd be as awful as <the microblogging site that shall not be named>
As of last night, librsvg has more #rustlang code than C code in the main library. The tests are still all C, though.
Maximum marker size in JPEG is 64KB, and yet the libjpeg has special functions for the case when "it's not convenient to store all the marker data in memory at once".
Exhausted.
#webcomics #comics
Timeline of my open-source contributions: PHP -> C -> ObjC -> JS -> Rust (from https://www.openhub.net/accounts/kornel)
I turned my laptop over and it appears to feature a blood sacrifice port. Amazing how much tech they cram into these things nowadays.
My first and only YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEVZXh-H0fk #prodigy
