sajith @sajith@mastodon.social

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/

~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

I'm so excited: I think my new WordPress plugin now fully implements the Feed Paging and Archiving standard! (Context above in this thread.) It may have bugs still but it seems to work. 🎉

I'm looking for review and feedback from WordPress and PHP developers:

https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory

"I like your idea. I think it’s a good idea. The community has needs, you want to fill those needs, and that’s good shit. I need for you to succeed, and that’s why I want you to scale that shit back.” This is the beginning of some excellent advice by @linkskywalker from elsewhere which I copied into a blog post for future reference. For my future self. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-29_A_Project_For_One

I dont accept ads, or aggressive brand/s accts or paid toots (I’ve been approached) but I do support free & #opensource programs. We have some amazing creative orgs represented on the #Fediverse thru #Mastodon’s super-scalable #ActivityPub implementation.

If you havent tried them then you’re missing out (a-z). U have control over ur social & creative lives w #FLOSS

@Blender
#DarkTable
@GIMP
@inkscape
@Krita
@ubuntustudio
Others?

Guile 3 update from Andy Wingo:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-06/msg00026.html

tl;dr We're well on our way to JIT-compiled code!

#tokyocameraclub

'He's a political prisoner': Standing Rock activists face years in jail - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/22/standing-rock-jailed-activists-water-protectors

Donald Knuth once filed a gdb bug. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15611

Here's the cover I designed over the weekend for an eBook I'm writing called "How to Write a Book About Your Pet."

Another update on RSS improvements for webcomics, fanfiction, and the like:

I wrote a WordPress plugin! I had no idea how to do that but within a few hours today I had a mostly-working implementation of the RFC5005 standard.

If you're a bleeding-edge early adopter, and you have a WordPress site, and you want to help me test this plugin, it's here:

https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory

I also documented it pretty well, I think, if you want to study it and see how to implement RFC5005 in other CMSes.

In my blog post about Emacs keybindings http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2018/01/06/the-emacs-guru-guide-to-key-bindings/ I mention the 'Emacs Guru Test'.

It's a cute way of seeing how well you know Emacs, so I'm pleased to have shared it. I didn't invent it though. My googling has totally failed to find the original author.

Update on making RSS better for long-form work like webcomics and serial stories! (See this thread for background.)

Based on nice feedback from a WordPress core contributor, I think I understand how to add RFC5005 support as a WordPress plugin.

Does anybody want to build that plugin with me? It should be mostly straightforward but I haven't programmed in PHP for about two decades and I'm intimidated.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-rfc5005-support-to-wordpress-generated-rss-feeds/