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This page contains random thoughts and impressions by me.

• 2022-08-15

  • Delivering and receiving Emails in the modern internet is such a shit show. The big providers (looking at you, Google and Microsoft!) do their own shit, and the old protocols are at least inofficially deprecated. Just try to send a mail via SMTP using an Office365 account (e.g. because the customer uses Office365 for their mail). The admin has to manually enable SMTP for users, and then you have to implement shit like XOAUTH2. Sigh.

    Christian Kruse

    Delivering and receiving Emails in the modern internet is such a shit show. The big providers (looking at you, Google and Microsoft!) do their own shit, and the old protocols are at least inofficially deprecated. Just try to send a mail via SMTP using an Office365 account (e.g. because the customer uses Office365 for their mail). The admin has to manually enable SMTP for users, and then you have to implement shit like XOAUTH2. Sigh.

    3 months ago

• 2022-08-08

  • Damals[tm], als es noch die Bloggosphäre gab, haben wir „Nunchakus“ oder „Blog-Stöckchen“ geworfen…

    Christian Kruse

    Damals[tm], als es noch die Bloggosphäre gab, haben wir „Nunchakus“ oder „Blog-Stöckchen“ geworfen.

    Gibt es sowas heute eigentlich auch noch?

    3 months ago

• 2022-07-21

  • „What happens when you press a key in your terminal?“ https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/07/20/pseudoterminals/

    Christian Kruse

    „What happens when you press a key in your terminal?“ is a pretty interesting article by Julia Evans about the tech going on in your terminal. Definitely worth a read!

    4 months ago

• 2022-07-12

  • A very good friend just published his first paper. Congratulations! https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9279/5/4/58

    Christian Kruse

    A very good friend just published his first paper. Congratulations!

    4 months ago

• 2022-06-20

  • When monday morning begins with an electricity cut…

    Christian Kruse

    When monday morning begins with an electricity cut…

    5 months ago

• 2022-04-27

  • In case you are an Emacs user doing frontend development with TypeScript and React, there is tsx-mode https://github.com/orzechowskid/tsx-mode.el

    Christian Kruse

    In case you are an Emacs user doing frontend development with TypeScript and React, there is a new major mode for TSX development: tsx-mode. It is a promising project. It uses tree-sitter for font-lock (syntax highlighting). My setup using use-package can be found here and here. I also added it to my Doom Emacs config: see this and this.

    7 months ago

• 2022-04-26

  • Type-based optimizations in Erlang/OTP 25 🥳 https://www.erlang.org/blog/type-based-optimizations-in-the-jit/

    Christian Kruse

    Type-based optimizations in Erlang/OTP 25 🥳

    7 months ago

  • An interesting article about configuring your Elixir projects: „Tips for Improving Your Elixir Configuration“ https://felt.com/blog/elixir-configuration

    Christian Kruse

    „Tips for Improving Your Elixir Configuration“

    Configuration has historically been a bit bumpy in the Elixir community, and this article has some interesting approaches to make it more flexible.

    7 months ago

• 2022-04-21

  • An good compilation of new(ish) command line tools. I myself use a lot of them. https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-line-tools/

    Christian Kruse

    An good compilation of new(ish) command line tools. I myself use a lot of them, especially ripgrep, difftastic, fd and bat are really great tools.

    7 months ago

  • Mastonaut has been open-sourced and then discontinued :( https://github.com/brunophilipe/Mastonaut

    Christian Kruse

    Mastonaut has been open-sourced and then discontinued :(

    7 months ago

• 2022-04-14

  • „Orion Browser“ - WebKit UI supporting Firefox and Chrome extensions https://browser.kagi.com/

    Christian Kruse

    „Orion Browser“ - WebKit UI supporting Firefox and Chrome extensions. Really an interesting project.

    7 months ago

  • „Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.“ https://indieblog.page/

    Christian Kruse

    „Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.“ - what a great idea!

    7 months ago

• 2022-03-27

  • „How to run apps in private“ https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/23/how-to-run-apps-in-private/

    Christian Kruse

    „How to run apps in private“

    8 months ago

  • „Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0

    Christian Kruse

    „Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia“ – a video about „Web 3.0“, explaining all the bullshit in a pretty funny way. I really enjoyed it.

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-26

  • A fascinating analysis about „The Joe Rogan Experience“ https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/02/on-experiencing-joe-rogan

    Christian Kruse

    I recently read a fascinating analysis about „The Joe Rogan Experience“, which is a pretty popular podcast exclusively published on Spotify. Definitely worth a read.

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-17

  • This whole cloud thing was a big mistake. Github down (git push throws a 500), and my team can't work. Why did we ever think this is a good idea?

    Christian Kruse

    This whole cloud thing was a big mistake. Github down (git push throws a 500), and my team can't work. Why did we ever think this is a good idea?

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-15

  • I just bought the first non-fiction book in ages: „Zero To Production In Rust“ (https://www.zero2prod.com/index.html)

    Christian Kruse

    I just bought the first non-fiction book in ages: „Zero To Production In Rust“. I'm eager to read it!

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-14

  • After years of listening to the Linux Unplugged podcast I had to remove it from my feed today. Their Bitcoin praise just got unbearable. :(

    Christian Kruse

    After years of listening to the Linux Unplugged podcast I had to remove it from my feed today. Their Bitcoin praise just got unbearable. :(

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-11

  • I really like the SwiftUI tutorial videos by Martin Lexow, e.g. this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_HfEr9DcbY

    Christian Kruse

    I really like the SwiftUI tutorial videos by Martin Lexow, e.g. this one. He doesn't waste much time and just shows what SwiftUI is capable of and how to work with it.

    8 months ago

• 2022-03-03

  • „Nun sag doch etwas“ https://hmbl.blog/28-2-2028-nun-sag-doch-etwas/

    Christian Kruse

    „Nun sag doch etwas“. Tidbit:

    Und ich habe keine Ahnung. Und ich möchte nicht Teil einer Desinformation sein.

    Darf ich Sie um etwas bitten? Halten Sie es genau so. Das Web ist nur dann ein guter Platz, wenn wir es dazu machen.

    8 months ago

• 2022-02-25

  • The last few days I had a lot of fun with Relm4

    Christian Kruse

    The last few days I had a lot of fun with Relm4. It is an Elm inspired GTK abstraction.

    The main problem I had when using gtk-rs directly was managing state. Either you use a Rc<RefCell<_>> and pass it around or you use a background thread managing the state and channels to communicate with it.

    Both ways are tedious.

    Relm4 abstracts that away and helps managing state in a much better way:

    use gtk::prelude::{BoxExt, ButtonExt, GtkWindowExt, OrientableExt};
    use relm4::{send, AppUpdate, Model, RelmApp, Sender, WidgetPlus, Widgets};
    
    #[derive(Default)]
    struct AppModel {
        counter: u8,
    }
    
    enum AppMsg {
        Increment,
        Decrement,
    }
    
    impl Model for AppModel {
        type Msg = AppMsg;
        type Widgets = AppWidgets;
        type Components = ();
    }
    
    impl AppUpdate for AppModel {
        fn update(&mut self, msg: AppMsg, _components: &(), _sender: Sender<AppMsg>) -> bool {
            match msg {
                AppMsg::Increment => {
                    self.counter = self.counter.wrapping_add(1);
                }
                AppMsg::Decrement => {
                    self.counter = self.counter.wrapping_sub(1);
                }
            }
            true
        }
    }
    
    #[relm4::widget]
    impl Widgets<AppModel, ()> for AppWidgets {
        view! {
            gtk::ApplicationWindow {
                set_title: Some("Simple app"),
                set_default_width: 300,
                set_default_height: 100,
                set_child = Some(&gtk::Box) {
                    set_orientation: gtk::Orientation::Vertical,
                    set_margin_all: 5,
                    set_spacing: 5,
    
                    append = &gtk::Button {
                        set_label: "Increment",
                        connect_clicked(sender) => move |_| {
                            send!(sender, AppMsg::Increment);
                        },
                    },
                    append = &gtk::Button {
                        set_label: "Decrement",
                        connect_clicked(sender) => move |_| {
                            send!(sender, AppMsg::Decrement);
                        },
                    },
                    append = &gtk::Label {
                        set_margin_all: 5,
                        set_label: watch! { &format!("Counter: {}", model.counter) },
                    }
                },
            }
        }
    }
    
    fn main() {
        let model = AppModel::default();
        let app = RelmApp::new(model);
        app.run();
    }
    

    I really like that approach!

    9 months ago

• 2022-02-04

  • After about 20 years of using Emacs (not always exclusively) I now dabble into Neovim. 🤯

    Christian Kruse

    After about 20 years of using Emacs (not always exclusively) I now dabble into Neovim. 🤯

    9 months ago

• 2022-02-03

  • It's a bit sad how today everybody does a Twitter thread instead of writing a blog post. IMHO most Twitter threads should be blog posts. Same for Mastodon.

    Christian Kruse

    It's a bit sad how today everybody does a Twitter thread instead of writing a blog post. IMHO most Twitter threads should be blog posts. Same for Mastodon.

    9 months ago

• 2022-01-07

  • A pretty interesting article about Free Software, Open Source and the jndi issue https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

    Christian Kruse

    A pretty interesting article about Free Software, Open Source and the jndi issue. It sums up the reason why I don‘t want to be payed for my FLOSS projects.

    10 months ago