Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- aka
- earboxer
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Joined May 2019
Day 1.5 of using #plasmamobile on #pinephone
The default ringtone for my alarm was nothing :/
Set up aerc to read emails in the terminal... difficult. Oughtn't there be a default installed email client on a smartphone?
Sms messages are dethreaded in #spacebar due to missing country code in contacts.
Unreceived MMS with no notification or indication.
Haven't figured out how to get nextcloud caldav into #Calindori
Installed #lagrange from discover. It's unusable b/c keyboard doesn't pop up.
Day 1 of using #plasmamobile on the #pinephone:
Can send/receive sms and phone calls!
Wow, that keyboard is so broken. Haven't yet figured out how to fix Ctrl so I can press Ctrl+S in nano.
That's gonna make development very difficult. (May just use termux ssh from android device) Do I need to install a different virtual keyboard?
I've been cross-posting almost-daily #devotional content to https://zachdecook.com/devo/ and gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/devo/
The gemini site looks better. (Content is mostly subset of gemtext/markdown). How should I share with friends? Convince ppl to get a gemini client? My gemini client?
@akkartik Solarized color scheme is a subset of the xterm 256 color pallette. I'm a big solarized dark fan (except maybe the green)
@oppen I like the idea... mostly because existing gemini clients don't keep track of scroll position in their bookmarks. Funny to see this pop up before any submissions to booksin.space.
Also, does "gpubVersion: 1.0.0" open the door too much to future extensibility? (Maybe inline notes using .patch files?)
@devinprater@dragonscave.space like "program X doesn't work well with orca"?
Haven't used thunderbird in a while... have kind of given up hope for it.
@devinprater@dragonscave.space
Make a list of issues somewhere that you think are important (and may be getting overlooked by developers). I'd be happy to take a peek at some of them, and see if I might fix any of them.
@passthejoe Using and developing *free* software, I hope you mean 😉.
If everyone becomes a developer, but they're still slaves to proprietary SW, the free software movement has failed.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
boosted
After a decade of waffling I finally started using NoScript. It's interesting. I mostly allow scripts, but make myself do so manually. And it's interesting to be aware of javascript usage on different sites. Like a geiger counter.
@juliobiason Is there a federated stackoverflow yet?
I mean, it's nice and all that they license the content under creative commons, but still would be good to have an option for self-hosted new communities of answers.
@lgehr step 5 was notably the most difficult, as there were a number of things I tried, but they didn't work (regarding creating and importing packages). Don't take these instructions as indicative of standard practice among go developers, I have no clue what other devs do to change go stdlib. So, this is what worked for me.
@lgehr
1. Motivation: had recently experimented with using a emoji clock in shell prompt
2. aerc documentation pointed to go's time.Time.Format
3. go's documentation pointed to a file called src/time/format.go
4. `sudo find / -path '*time/format.go'`
5. copied file, bind-mounted copy over original
6. Made code change (as seen in github PR #45394), compiled aerc to test
There was a post on gemini lately about how we shouldn't use ⓒⓔⓡⓣⓐⓘⓝ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 in our writing because #a11y. My hot take is that as long as the characters being used aren't used improperly (accents/foreign characters), we should just fix our TTS software to pronounce things as the author intended.
@kelbot one of the difficult things about the command line interface is that it doesn't help much if you forget the name of a command. Maybe I need to keep a printed cheatsheet for the 5000+ commands in my path. Distro maintainers take this advice.
I used an iPhone for 3 days
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
boosted
@technomancy @mdhughes @GeoffWozniak Thing is, there isn't always an alternative to C. If you want to target unpopular OSes and architectures in constrained environments, "modern" langs like Rust won't work.
If you know a lang that can produce small + fast binaries for a vast array of non-mainstream platforms (x86, ARM, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows are the mainstream ones), I'm all ears.
There are three reasons why C works on just about every platform under the Sun:
1. It's standardized, which makes writing a new compiler/backend much easier.
2. It's slow-moving, which makes it easy to maintain said compilers
3. It's old, so it has a lot of compilers/backends already built.
Achieving the first two of the above three qualities are quite essential to "replace" C.
If you know a lang that can produce small + fast binaries for a vast array of non-mainstream platforms (x86, ARM, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows are the mainstream ones), I'm all ears.
There are three reasons why C works on just about every platform under the Sun:
1. It's standardized, which makes writing a new compiler/backend much easier.
2. It's slow-moving, which makes it easy to maintain said compilers
3. It's old, so it has a lot of compilers/backends already built.
Achieving the first two of the above three qualities are quite essential to "replace" C.
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- aka
- earboxer
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Joined May 2019
