Jan 🇧🇻 @mecinus@mastodon.technology
Developer, nature science geek, amateur coleopterist, beekeeper, woodworker living in Norway. Android, C(++), Python, Rust, nodejs. FreeBSD, Linux.
Joined Feb 2019
I feel a sudden urge to implement RFC2229.
Version 0.1.3 of my #gopher is released now. Dark mode, external programs for telnet and html, improved navigation and tons of bug fixes! https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher
Cleaned up my dropbox. That is, moved the files to a syncthing folder.
After all these years I still enjoy the moment when I wipe out the preinstalled windows on a new PC and install #linux on the first boot. So satisfying.
Ooooh, gentoo. Sweet. I used it for quite a while almost 20 years ago - long before systemd :) Not sure if this is something for my work machine though, and my personal notebook runs FreeBSD which I'm quite happy with. But I'll take a look at the handbook. Promise!
Started the day with my /boot partition wiped out. Why???
Maybe I should order a STM32F3DISCOVERY to do some #embedded #rust programming https://rust-embedded.github.io/book/intro/hardware.html
Jan 🇧🇻
boosted
when you find out your daily lifestyle is actually called "quarantine"
I've written an #ncurses-based #gopher client in #rust. Though it's still in alpha, you can give it a try at https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher
Also, feature requests are welcome! See the NOTES.org file for planned features.
Jan 🇧🇻
boosted
"Thanks for taking the time for this interview. Let's start with a simple whiteboard algorithm: can you reverse this string?"
Are we assuming ASCII? If not, define "reversal". Strings encode language, does the resulting sentence need to be meaningful? How do you "reverse" a sentence? Should we bring freetype2 and render the text mirrored horizontally, like text written on glass when viewed from behind? Or should we replace the words with antonyms? Or reverse the contractions, e.g. do -> don't? What about non-English languages? Does RTL text become LTR? What about languages which are written top-down in some contexts, like Chinese or Japanese? I'm only familiar with the semantics of a handful of languages, can we poll the rest of the office to find people who know others? Or maybe you mean we should construct a model of spacetime/linguistics in which language is time-symmetric. That's a cool idea for a conlang, actually. Do you have a copy of the Silmarillion handy?
Just discovered sqlacodegen, a util that creates #SQLAlchemy-models from an existing #database. Works like a charm! https://pypi.org/project/sqlacodegen/
Jan 🇧🇻
boosted
Gopher was an intermediate phase of our networked world, a booster rocket that the Web used to attain a higher orbit than Gopher could have ever reached on its own. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
Just found out that 4000 fantastic illustrations from Jules Verne's works are now available at OpenCulture. http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/jules-vernes-voyages-extraordinaires.html
Memacs tries to implement Vannevar Bush's memory extender called Memex, which he wrote about in "As we may think" (1945). #emacs #orgmode https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#background
Just discovered Memacs (https://github.com/novoid/Memacs) - a second brain for #emacs and #org-mode.
There is also a paper about it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.1332.pdf
My son's #NES has a problem. And now, I have a problem. PPU, maybe? 72-pin connector cleaned 3 times. Whaaaaa...
Jan 🇧🇻
boosted
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
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Jan 🇧🇻
boosted
Developer, nature science geek, amateur coleopterist, beekeeper, woodworker living in Norway. Android, C(++), Python, Rust, nodejs. FreeBSD, Linux.
Joined Feb 2019
