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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. jamey.thesharps.us/2018/06/30/

Anna was derelict in 2013

I think I found the sheriff of lakeside stacked pebbles

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~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! archiveteam.org/index.php?titl

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

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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:

github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullh

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"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. alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-

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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: #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: @Blender
#DarkTable
:gimp: @GIMP
:inkscape: @inkscape
:krita: @Krita
:ubuntustudio: @ubuntustudio
Others?

"No one holds a smartphone."

nytimes.com/interactive/2018/0

Someone found two cardboard boxes full of color slides from the summer of 1978, shot in New York City.

I miss shooting film. I have three rolls of long-expired Velvia in the refrigerator... maybe I will shoot some this summer.

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One extremely dumbfounded man versus one big-ass project

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

When you install a GPLv3 application, run it, and it shows you an ad for Slack right away:

😱 😨 😢

(See github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issue if you're curious)

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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:

github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullh

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

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In my blog post about Emacs keybindings wilfred.me.uk/blog/2018/01/06/ 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.

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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.

wordpress.org/support/topic/ad