** Miscellaneous this and that **
Since my brain injury (which I’ve since learned can be called an“ABI” or“acquired brain injury”) I’ve noticed that I have trouble focusing on programming tasks; I’m able to do what I need to do for work and family but, when it comes time for hobby projects I’m just gloop. Totally oozy.

Because of that I’ve been drawn to do more reading and game playing, but also still wanna code…I’ve found that it is easier to use more“batteries included” kinda languages, namely scheme, over what I’d … ⌘ Read more

**2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:

1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *soheavy nowadays!), but it works.

Then a 10yrs old laptop upgrading from Win8 to Ubuntu 22.04, fresh!**
2 days, 2 laptops to which a new life was given:

1st, an installation of Bodhi Linux on a 14yrs old machine. From unusable to usable - there are no miracles (web browsing is *so*heavy* nowadays!), but it works.

Then a 10yrs ol … ⌘ Read more

I’ve realized that trying to strictly follow what is on the IndieWeb wiki won’t work well for me. Thus, I have to invent and change some things to make it work better. ⌘ Read more

Progress! so i have moved into working on aggregates. Which are a grouping of events that replayed on an object set the current state of the object. I came up with this little bit of generic wonder.

type PA[T any] interface {
	event.Aggregate
	*T
}

// Create uses fn to create a new aggregate and store in db.
func Create[A any, T PA[A]](ctx context.Context, es *EventStore, streamID string, fn func(context.Context, T) error) (agg T, err error) {
	ctx, span := logz.Span(ctx)
	defer span.End()

	agg = new(A)
	agg.SetStreamID(streamID)

	if err = es.Load(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	if err = event.NotExists(agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	if err = fn(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	var i uint64
	if i, err = es.Save(ctx, agg); err != nil {
		return
	}

	span.AddEvent(fmt.Sprint("wrote events = ", i))

	return
}

fig. 1

This lets me do something like this:

a, err := es.Create(ctx, r.es, streamID, func(ctx context.Context, agg *domain.SaltyUser) error {
		return agg.OnUserRegister(nick, key)
})

fig. 2

I can tell the function the type being modified and returned using the function argument that is passed in. pretty cray cray.

Gomess: Infinite Bat Works

With respect to logging.. oh man.. it really depends on the environment you are working in.. development? log everything! and use a jeager open trace for the super gnarly places. So you can see whats going on while building. But, for production? metrics are king. I don’t want to sift through thousands of lines but have a measure that can tell me the health of the service.

Tech Journalism Roundtable - July 25, 2016
Watch now (67 min) | With some of the most prolific Tech Journalists working at the time. ⌘ Read more

I started working on plugins for GoBlog using a Go module I recently discovered: yaegi. It still feels like magic, because Go is typically a compiled language and yaegi makes it dynamic by embedding an interpreter. Is this overkill for GoBlog or does this possibly enable flexibility like WordPress plugins? ⌘ Read more

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert You can be both dull and innovative | Hacker News

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Base implementation
The last few weeks were quite busy for me, but there was also a lot of progress.
I’m happy to say that the base of stateless file sharing is implemented and working.
Let’s explore some of the more interesting topics.

File hashes have some practical applications, such as file validation and duplication detection.
As such, they are part of the [metadata element](https://xmpp.org/extensio … ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · July 2022 Edition
While some of us have been wrapping up the financial year, and enjoying vacation time, others have been hard at work shipping open source projects and releases. These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this July. […] ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom … ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: “Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right, nowadays web 5.0 is coined already too - it’s “The Telepathic Web” or “The Symbionet Web”, or, I’ll call it “the Metaverse brain chip”.

https://www.timesnownews.com/exclusive/jack-dorsey-web-5-0-how-will-it-work-and-why-it-is-different-article-92209954**
“Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.3 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol … ⌘ Read more

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de From my limited experiences in two companies I can anedoctic tell you, that what we developers told our support work mates after analyzing things and what they replied back to the enquirers was not always the same. That also happend when we gave them answers in written form. Always super nice support folks, no a single doubt, but their basic technical knowledge was pretty much non-existent. And plenty of them didn’t even really know the softwares they’re supposed to support. Granted, those were not easy programs, one was indeed super complex. But if they use them on a daily basis for years one would expect that they know them quite well. At least the main features and workflows. We also often had to tell them basic stuff several times, which was quite a bit frustrating for both sides.

But, I was super glad, that we had them in the front row. You wouldn’t believe what crap queries they had to deal with and what utter bullshit they kept off our shoulders. Sometimes people wrote really offensive e-mails for no reason. Holy moly. I wouldn’t want to trade with them, not in a hundred years. Lots of my developer work mates, however, didn’t value our first level support at all. I mean, I totally understand, that after telling the same things over and over and over and over again it pisses you off, but treating them in a way they feel like shit, doesn’t help either. It only makes things worse. I had the impression that there was a slight war between development and support.

One thing that was totally stupid, is that the POs didn’t listen to improvements and suggestions on how to make things easier for the support team and also all our users. I mean, support has to deal with this software all day long and also get the same questions about workflows and stuff that’s too complicated or unintuitive. So a lot of things were really low hanging fruit to improve everybody’s live. But when they suggested anything, the POs always declined it, nah, it’s the support’s job. Period. A few times I teamed up with the support work mates and told the POs the same, the support team was suggesting and then it was accepted without hesitation. So that clearly shows there really was a two-tier society.

In my current project we don’t have a support team, so we need to handle all the support queries ourselves. In that regard I miss the old project. But luckily, it’s basically just other developers who are needing our help, so that’s fairly okay.

Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors
Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars. ⌘ Read more

Preview of a note-taking app I’ve been working on: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (video; 5 mins)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I tried to think about it once more today, but still no luck yet. However, I reckon that when I try to grasp something in a very focused way, then I imagine how I would loudly read it (but actually don’t) and hear myself. I’m quite certain about that. In more extreme cases I even noticed my lips slightly moving, but not creating any sound. But most of the time I don’t think there’s a voice. The tricky thing is, if I don’t think about how it works in general, I don’t know. And if I try to think about it, it feels like introducing tons of measuring errors. I just found Schrödinger’s cat in my brain.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whaaaaat… O_o No offence, but there’s often a reason that first level support works at first level support. I’m not helpful, I know.

Release Radar · June 2022 Edition
It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of these open source projects that released major updates this […] ⌘ Read more

Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yeah, that also works like a treat! :-D I heard a bunch of these bloody wankers today as well. They were a few kilometers away, so I would have needed a high precision ballista.

Comment on [How To] Install Photoshop CS2 in WINE by Marin Adams
I am truly thankful to the owner of this web site who has shared this fantastic piece of writing at at this place. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Now that is a cool thing. Showing the work time. I need something like that, too!

that probably relies on a bunch of interpretability work done beforehand

@prologic@twtxt.net Damn, I was 100% sure to have set visibility to public, but I’m also prompted to log in. O_o Turns out, the project move must have ruined this setting somehow. Should now work.

@prologic@twtxt.net Sadly, the old site looked better than the new one. :-/ Good report, though! Reminds me of several similarities at work.

Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Certify Keys with PGPainless
Currently I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work will be funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet.nl … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is At least for now I don’t need remote frontends, but who knows what the future brings. :-)

Is there any setting or script to render a line in the chat buffer to indicate the last read messages? I fail to find anything. For irssi it would be the trackbar.pl script. Also, the beep settings seem not to work for what ever reason. It’s just not sending a BEL to my terminal. Hm. :-(

So far I configured most (almost all) settings for GoBlog through a YAML file. But this is not so optimal, after all it happens sometimes that I want to change a small setting, such as the description of a post section, from my smartphone. This would work somehow via SSH, but ideal is something else. Email conversations with Andrés Cárdenas inspired me to finally start the project “settings in the database”. The first step was to make it possible to configure the mentioned post sections. This is now finally possible … ⌘ Read more

I’m trying to switch from Konversation to irssi. Let’s see how that goes. Any irssiers out there who can recommend specific settings or scripts? I already got myself trackbar.pl and nickcolor.pl as super-essentials. Also trying window_switcher.pl. Somehow my custom binds for Ctrl+1/2/3/etc. to switch to window 1/2/3/etc. doesn’t do anything: { key = "^1"; id = "change_window"; data = "1"; } (I cannot use the default with Alt as this is handled by my window manager). Currently, I’m just cycling with Ctrl+N/P. Other things to solve in the near future:

• better, more colorful and compact theme (just removed clock from statusbar so far)
  
• getting bell/urgency hints working on arriving messages
  
• nicer tabs in status bar, maybe even just channel names and no indexes
  
• decluster status bar with user and channel modes (I never cared about those in the last decade)

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.

You can find [download artifacts](https://ign … ⌘ Read more

All the scripts on my Gemini capsule (except chess) have now been rewritten using Python and storing data in a SQLite database. This is the first time I’ve ever worked with database in a “production” environment, and I’m inordinately excited.

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom … ⌘ Read more

@darch@neotxt.dk Although already rejected, but what are channels? How would they work?

How tropical islands on Indonesia and Thailand are the new working from home
Tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia are trying to take advantage of business-leisure travellers – a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. ⌘ Read more

Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance. ⌘ Read more

It’s a wrap for China’s Tianwen-1 Mars mission, but rover and orbiter still ready to work
China’s space agency marks completion of Tianwen-1 mission with new photos of red planet volcano and polar cap. ⌘ Read more

China to start building giant telescope to monitor solar winds that can knock out satellites and power grids
Researchers say work will start soon to assemble the three antennas that will make up the Mingantu telescope in Inner Mongolia. ⌘ Read more

Thanks to mobile working, I had a few nice days with my girlfriend. ❤️ ⌘ Read more

https://anvil.works/ python web dev

First-ever Hong Kong Science Fair Supports Hong Kong’s Innovation Development
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The Hong Kong Government is committed to promoting the development of innovation and technology and to grow Hong Kong as an international technology hub. Scientific work and technology has helped humankind in amazingly creative and innovative ways. Last year, the Hong Kong Innovation Foundation (HKIF) launched the first-ever Hong … ⌘ Read more

Singapore man who preyed on disabled children jailed for record 45 years in ‘exceptionally sickening’ case
Prosecutors said the man committed his crimes over the span of 16 years, including from 2005 to 2018 when he worked as a part-time tutor to ‘gain access to a ready pool of children’ – many of whom were disabled. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong’s greenhouse gas emissions fall for third year in a row
Greenhouse gas emissions drop, but environmentalists warn more work is needed. ⌘ Read more

Power company to remove remains of bridge and finish laying cables a week after fire that left 160,000 Hong Kong households without electricity
First phase of cable-laying work completed last Friday and second cable successfully activated on Monday. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!

Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. **Kindly … ⌘ Read more

In reply to: Oatmeal - That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life?

After giving my brain bleed time to heal the neurosurgeon called me back in to hospital; the plan was to reassess, attempt to fix it using the minimally invasive technique that they tried once before, and if that didn’t work, do something a bit more squidgy dir … ⌘ Read more