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„Good and bad Elixir“ - a blog post about what makes Elixir code good or bad. I don’t agree with everything, but with most of it and I enjoyed the read.

Baldur Bjarnason wrote a pretty interesting article about the state of OSS in web development: „The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was“

A tidbit:

We’re working in an unstable industry, surviving at the whim of callous mega-corporations, and we spend our days treating people like shit.

And then again, there are things like this

It’s fascinating to see how far we’ve come. I started programming during a school project, we visualized fractals like the Sierpinski triangle or the Julia set, and it took our computers hours, sometimes even days, to generate those images.

To learn GTK and Rust I implemented a Sierpinski triangle today myself, and I can’t even see the program painting so fast is it.

This is still mind blowing to me.

I’ve been trying to grasp how to structure a Rust GTK application for some time now. The basic grasp was to use Rc<RefCell<_>> to pass around application state. That seemed error-prone and cumbersome to me, and I was looking how other applications do it.

Today I stumbled upon an approach using message passing, which looks pretty promising to me. Have a look at this blogpost and this github repository. It seems to make handling state much more easy and less error-prone.

I think I will try to implement this approach in a beginner project.

Is there a goto way to create a wireguard VPN which fails over to a different endpoint when the original IP isn’t reachable/loses packets?

rpg-cli - your file system as a dungeon 🤣

Magit 3.0 released! Magit is just the best Git interface I’ve encountered. Magit alone is a reason to install Emacs on a machine.