@cheeaun@mastodon.social2025-06-28 04:56:24
Here’s a series of side quests on my other side projects:
1. WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) readings are now displayed as 🔥 on https://checkweather.sg/
Open-source: https:…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2025-06-28 04:56:24
@cketti@social.int21.dev2025-05-29 23:00:01
@…
1. Looking for libraries/examples in a given language for a specific purpose.
2. Sometimes I'm searching for code that uses a certain library/API to understand how others use it.
3. Sometimes I misuse an API and then look for other projects that made the same mistake and need fixing.
4. Sometimes I search for code that uses one of my l…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-06-26 17:35:54
I am planning on moving my shit away from Notion.
The whole "2nd Brain" thing does not work for me (it just gives me busywork instead of doing something useful) so what I am looking for
- self-hostable
- should have a web interface I can use from any machine without installation
-I need "tasks", "projects" that contain tasks and "notes" (ideally optionally connected to projects and/or tasks)
- boards for tasks
- mobile …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-24 09:39:49
Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.
@laf0rge@chaos.social2025-05-16 12:49:09
on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetw…
@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-06-23 04:59:15
My "now" page
- what I'm doing and why I might say NO to other projects -
https://muz4now.com/now
@jake4480@c.im2025-07-06 00:38:59
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-07-22 08:37:15
Exploring Trion more as a potential FPGA option for future embedded projects.
The first thing that's hitting me hard is the lack of LUTRAM mode. Anything too small to put in a BRAM, or that you need combinatorial reads on, ends up being synthesized as DFFs.
This causes massive size explosion (and worse performance) for some of my stuff, most notably the curve25519 accelerator which balloons from 7632 LUT / 5737 FF / 32 DSP on Kintex-7 to 21625 LUT / 11528 FF / 96 MULT when sy…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-06-09 08:42:03
from my link log —
Precision Clock Mk IV.
https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv
saved 2025-05-31 https://…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-06-12 11:57:10
On my way to event "Energy security in uncertain times. The role of gas storages in the energy system" organized by EBN.
Important topic. At Common Futures, we analyzed the future need for gas storages to enable the use of increasing volumes of EU biomethane:
https://www.
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizza2025-07-15 16:44:59
Another year and once again I can spend my employers money on donations to open source projects.
Love the new funds initiative by @… makes it much easier for me to donate.
Something that I learned from this that is valuable for projects.
Make it as easy as possible to donate to you.
I have four projects including th…
@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-07-12 15:18:30
AutoMapper and MediatR Roadmaps #dotnet
https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-roadmaps/
@rollin_rob@social.linux.pizza2025-06-22 11:35:59
Good bye #GPN23! Had a great time and learned a lot! Didn't finish any of my projects, but got some new ones now😆
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-06-13 07:42:49
projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.
@dwf@social.linux.pizza2025-06-21 13:14:15
Looking at the Markdown note-taking/Zettelkasten/"second brain" software space and being really put off by the almost religious fervor around it all.
I have a variety of "things I need infrequently want to note down in a place I can reliably retrieve them later" and "ongoing personal projects that get picked up and put down as bandwidth allows, for which I'd like to serialize my work".
I don't want to save every stray thought. Most of my tho…
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2025-07-17 13:44:55
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-02 21:38:11
Re this from @…: YES.
My first job out of college, I successfully built several high-profile executive darling software projects. I was celebrated for it (someone once use the phrase “white knight,” yikes), which was heady for a 20-something fresh out of college.
Despite that, I don’t think a single one of those projects actually mattered diddly to the company in the long term.
1/2
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/114785755537309714
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2025-06-11 15:00:12
My favourite hammock for on our balcony broke and landed me on my ass, last month. Just got around to fixing it with parts of a new lashing strap that's rated for much more weight than me. The hammock itself is still in good shape, so this should last me some more years, now.
(I got the hammock from Kickstarter years ago, in a time when I was still fascinated by that website...
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-06-08 12:23:06
Diving into Godot for some personal projects, and getting my 3D pipeline sorted out and man... the Blender to Godot pipeline is so nice. Just being able to straight up save .blend files complete with modifiers and the like and have it work so seamlessly in Godot is just... (chef's kiss)
#Godot #GameDev
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-07-05 12:23:39
Like other large #FreeSoftware projects, #Gentoo developers have varying degrees of activity. There are some people who dedicate a lot of their free time to Gentoo, maintain hundreds of packages, participate in multiple areas. Then, there are people with narrower interests, lower commit counts, but they are still putting an effort and making Gentoo a better distribution — and that matters. But then, there is the tail.
There is a few of developers whose main talents seem to be 1) finding packages that require absolutely minimal maintenance effort, and 2) justifying their developer status with long essays. I mean, this is getting beyond absurd. It is not just "my packages are all up-to-date". It is not even "my packages require very low maintenance, that's why I'm not doing much". It is literally "I deliberately choose low-maintenance packages, so I don't have to do anything". But of course, all these people definitely need commit access to Gentoo, and show off their Gentoo developer badges, and it's *so damn unfair*.
And in the meantime, other developers are overburdened, and getting burned out. And they step down from more things. And who takes these things over? Of course, not the developers who just admitted to not having much to do…
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2025-06-09 09:15:28
Bookmark this for when you ask yourself why skepticism turns to hatred on the use of unconstrained LLMs.
https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392
@shochdoerfer@phpc.social2025-06-08 09:00:21
30 years of PHP and I've published my thoughts in the @… blog: https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/30-years-of-php
@scott@carfree.city2025-07-04 01:44:41
oh sure SF Chronicle, blow up my spots
they cite as underrated parks: Holly Park, Ina Coolbrith Park, Corona Heights, Golden Gate Heights, Sutro Heights, Bayview Park, Visitacion Valley Greenway, Crane Cove Park, Glen Canyon Park.
I feel like Glen Canyon and Corona Heights are quite well known. strong picks otherwise
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-06 15:28:37
My favorite clip of Terry A. Davis is when he sends a Letter to the CIA!
https://peertube.wtf/w/64f8KBvcWcU3tXZqPTMjuC
Terry had schizophrenia, which affected how he saw the world and how he worked on his projects.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-07-02 11:42:03
from my link log —
The Prospero challenge.
https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/prospero/
saved 2025-03-25 https://
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 07:18:56
Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
Mohammed Almutairi, Diego G\'omez-Zar\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05226
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.social2025-07-01 22:00:46
I will skip ArtFight this year so I can make time for my personal projects.
But damn you guys make it HARD with such lovely characters :neofox_cry:
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-07-23 16:09:36
One of the most fun projects I've worked on recently was the illustration for #Illustration #Work #Design #Animation #HTML
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-03 15:21:37
#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.
@thek3nger@mastodon.social2025-07-01 13:02:58
In the last couple of months, I've been distracted. Disconnected from the others and me. June was way better. It may be a local maximum. Who knows? But we better enjoy the good times whenever we can.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-june-2025/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-07-05 21:52:20
Just a little more readable than the original implementation...
https://github.com/azonenberg/common-embedded-platform/blob/main/drivers/VSC8512.cpp?ts=4#L367
I could probably make this even better if i added some con…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-05-31 11:42:03
from my link log —
On the design of compact elastic binary trees (cebtree).
http://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-design-of-compact-elastic-binary.html
saved 2025-05-05
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-01 20:40:34
This channel is an unofficial mirror of Bernadette Banner’s YouTube content. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bernadette Banner and may be removed if she requests.
She is one of my favorite creators on YouTube, so I’ve synchronized and published her videos on PeerTube, while the rest is currently being transcoded and should be available by tomorrow!
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-06-04 17:42:03
from my link log —
Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on a change-id commit footer.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAESOdVAspxUJKGAA58i0tvks4ZOfoGf1Aa5gPr0FXzdcywqUUw@mail.gmail.com/
saved 2025-…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-04 23:17:14
@… I'm a hobbyist game dev sort of (you asked for DMas for an article). Not many finished projects, but some significant stuff that's demoable & a jam game or two here or there. Best demo right now is probably:
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/chlorophyll
I'm a college CS instructor for my day job in case that's relevant.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-21 05:47:56