Open Source Software and publications by Christian Kruse
This page contains random thoughts and impressions by me.
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?
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.
Sacha Chua (@sachac on twitter) does so much good work with her Emacs news blog posts. If you are slightly interested in the Emacs ecosystem, I totally can recommend to read it.
Seriously. Why is it so hard to find trousers in my size? I like cargo pants, but getting some in W34/L36 seems nearly impossible
I'm looking for a new hobby side project to learn Rust. Anybody any interesting ideas?
In MRNA vaccines and Clarke's Law: JESUS FUCKING HOLY GODDAMNED SHITBALLS Cory Doctorow writes about the new mRNA vaccines:
If you convert a single closet in a conventional factory to mRNA production, it will make more doses than the rest of the factory combined. Only part of the factory needs to be a high-spec cleanroom facility, and the rest can be cheaper and more easily maintained.
This new technology is indeed fucking amazing!
An interesting article about the dispassionate developer. The author claims that we should not be passionate about our work.
As you start to ponder the implied ethos, the stranger it gets. Would you like engineers to be passionate as they design new bridges? Would you like a surgeon to be passionate as she operates on you? Would you like judges to be passionate as they pass sentence on your friend?
I'd like such people to care about their vocation, but I'd prefer that they keep a cool head and make as rational decisions as possible.
Jakub, the guy behind the Zaiste YouTube channel, published a pretty interesting interview with Henrik Lissner, the creator of Doom Emacs
Arm-breaker tech unlocks new markets by delaying defaults on unpayable debts. The zombie economy shambles on.
From „the zombie economy and digital arm-breakers,“ an article by Cory Doctorow about the current state of economy and debt.
Dependabot is actually pretty handy
It's slowly getting lighter again in the morning when I go with the dog. Spring is coming! 💖
JSON RPC is the new XML RPC
I… must resist… the temptation! as any is not a proper solution! as any is not a proper solution! as any is not a proper solution!
Refactoring code thrown together in a hurry is not fun at all…
I knew of dogs that howl to wolves or sirens… but our dog loves operas and starts howling (I'd like to call it „singing“ 😜) to them every time.
A repost of https://briefs.video/videos/why-the-indieweb/
Heydon Pickering published a pretty amazing short film about „Why The IndieWeb?“ as part of his webbed briefs series.
If you haven't already, go and watch it! I like it very much.
Wow, wtf? A malware for a male chestity IOT device. I didn't even know these devices exist, and now they have malware? 😲
A repost of http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/google-forms-spam.htm
Christian notices that Google Forms is being used to send spam e-mails. I see this, too. Since a few months I get several Google Forms spam mails per day, and my spam filters are not yet adjusted to this new form of spam.
This is why we can't have nice things. Fuck you very much, spammers.
