The next post in my, "Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X", series is up: A Year Away From Mac OS http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ #FreeBSD #Linux https://mastodon.social/media/r2sPvuh7RVCGH164224
A new version to Toot! is out! New in this version:
* Federated timeline now available (click the title).
* You can set up which notifications are shown on the notification tab (click the title again!).
* Twitter keyboard when posting new toots.
As usual, use https://toot-beta-signup.herokuapp.com/ to sign up for the beta test!
Whoa House House have partnered with Panic to deliver Untitled Goose Game https://mailchi.mp/househou/goose-news-issue-1?e=1fa9a32ac3 #gaming
My collection of #Mastodon guides, tools, news, and other goodies is growing.
I’m also happy to add suggestions and links I missed. Be sure to click the tag button in the top left to filter it a bit.
“The bectl tool is beadm implemented in C language and as it has just been imported into FreeBSD base which means that it will be part of the FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE.”
New ZFS Boot Environments Tool
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/new-zfs-boot-environments-tool/ #freebsd
Password Generation in Ruby and Rust by Thomas Hurst: https://hur.st/blog/2018/08-25-password-generation-in-ruby-and-rust/ #Rust #tools #starting
“Oops, I Wrote a C++ Compiler”: A .NET library that can compile C/C++ code into a byte code that it can also interpret. It is used in iCircuit to simulate Arduinos.
https://praeclarum.org/2018/08/27/oops-i-wrote-a-c-compiler.html
A New Adventure: Raph Levien moving on from Google https://raphlinus.github.io/personal/2018/08/28/a-new-adventure.html
What's a good instance for an open source project's fediverse account? Announcements, screenshots, support, etc.
A lot of apps are on mastodon.social and mastodon.technology. Any other instances I should consider?
Attempted to make my own ergonomic laptop stand. It's terrible but it works. Kinda.
A fork in the road for Mitogen https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2018-08-27-fork-in-the-road.html #ansible
Why I Enjoy Blogging by Manish Goregaokar https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/08/26/why-i-enjoy-blogging/ #blogging
Applications for the
@cultureamp
Junior Engineering Program (Cohort #2) are now OPEN! Apply here: hello.cultureamp.com/jep-2
@timapple ❤️ and I love when you have plenty of memory left to do other things after running this app!
@timapple No way! GTK
It's official: our first desktop app will be for Linux / FreeDesktop.org-compliant desktops.
And it's coming out this week 😀
“Are AMP pages really faster than HTML? – Gianluca Guarini – Medium”
In short, no. If you’re making a static page, plain HTML is always going to be faster than any JS or framework-oriented solution. https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/are-amp-pages-really-faster-than-html-ceb1c0399a90
⛄ Autotooting with Mastodon
http://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/08/autotooting-with-mastodon/
Had some fun working on a #stenography engine in #Rust this weekend. Not sure if/when it will become usable for real typing, but it's a fun project that feels well suited to Rust.
Programmer from Melbourne, Australia. Rust, FreeBSD, Arch Linux. Curator of @readrust, author at wezm.net and bitcannon.net