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I finally finished Houyhnhnm Computing, a wonderful exploration of an alternative approach to programming, and the advantages it would bring.
https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html
I’d highly recommend reading it. (At least, chapters 1–9 were great. Chapter 10 is about Urbit, which… ble…

Server-Side #Swift folks (who use Hummingbird, especially):
We (w/ @… ) rolled HummingbirdMacroRouting 0.2 last night.
This is an alternate way to declare controllers and routes in Hummingbird, via macros, and it's what we're using for Studioworks.
Pretty happy…

GitHub - sloatescoan/hummingbird-macrorouting: Macro based routing for Hummingbird
Macro based routing for Hummingbird. Contribute to sloatescoan/hummingbird-macrorouting development by creating an account on GitHub.

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Osobiście, polecałbym trzymać się z daleka od "#Python Code Quality Authority". Projekty tej organizacji zostały właściwie przejęte przez wyjątkowo toksyczną osobę. #Ruff to dobra alternatywa, z bardzo przyjaznymi autorami.

#Everhaven (aka

3d3nFPS (@3d3nFPS) on X
In light of the Hytale shutdown, we need people to help reverse engineer SkySaga: Infinite Isles! It is the best alternative to Hytale, but we need programmers to help restore the game. Discord: https://t.co/qvEWaLjyn2 Github: https://t.co/B07L33NMtb

Randomly saw this on HN: "LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44344246 − http…

If anyone else who's in the #OpenStreetMap/#opensource cosmos needs a reason to stop using Organic Maps and switch to some free/open alternatives:
In addition to them rolling their own 'data license', it seems like their recent license modifications for code could also be viewed as violating the Apache license/the creation of a non-FOSS license too.
That the devs are unwilling to give a clear answer to those questions speaks volumes imho…
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/10987

Listened in to the Academy Software Foundation's virtual townhall about the Open Review Initiative. I knew that project because they provide very useful ffmpeg command lines and they're doing all the encoding tests to figure out good quality settings and obscure parameters.
Learnings from the presentation: prores by ffmpeg is sadly pretty crappy compared to the real prores from Apple. There's the OpenAPV codec that is gearing up to be an open-source alternative:

Great thread about #Git self-hosting options:
https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/114989129643625908

Hallo ich bin #neuhier und melde mich, weil etwas teilen möchte.
Als alter ITler möchte ich ein Skript teilen, dass dem (Home-)Admin das Leben erleichert, wenn wieder mal ein "curl" oder "wget" bei der Verifizierung eines Zertifikats (#SSL /