bobajeff

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by bobajeff 3y ago
Unlike you I don't have a dislike of graphics. I do however see value in small simple software. The Web is a runtime so very complex that it takes huge organizations to create. Theoretically, you could sacrifice full compatibility by i
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Being open source doesn't mean the application is a safe investment but it is still a useful bullet point to have. We can and should also judge our investments by how small, simple and composable the application is.
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I think opens source is still what users want even if they don't want to work on the software. It allows your investment not to go away with whatever company is making it or worse by becoming spyware or subscription based. That said I
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Is Open Source a diversion from what users want?(discourse.ardour.org)
73 points by bobajeff 3y ago|76 comments
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I'm not totally sold on rust as a language but I have to admit the tooling and ecosystem is really nice. I'm noticing that I'm increasingly using more stuff built with it. I'm also not sold on zig either for many of the
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by bobajeff 3y ago
The easiest package format I've ever came across was the tgz format from Slackware. From what I remember, you just build and install your software in a fake root then tar gzip it up.
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I know. I've looked into it and am pretty sure it was a missing optional build dependency during the build of the package. The feature is obscure enough that it was easily overlooked by the maintainer who in all likelihood doesn't
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by bobajeff 3y ago
Thank you 'apt-mark showmanual' is useful. Even better using synaptic you can the click the `Installed (manual)` status filter. Still not as good as something like npm's `package.json` where it's a human edited list of
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by bobajeff 3y ago
Nix respiratory has a lot of good work done in it but I've found some bad packages. Alpine also sounds like a nice system but I'd bet it has an even worse issue with bad packages because of musl.
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I think I remember having issues with the Kate package. There might have been others but that's the one that stuck for me.
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I like the idea of nixos. Having one file responsible for all packages installed on the system is way better than what traditional distro use. I just don't like the quality of the packages. It would be nice if someone could do somethin
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by bobajeff 3y ago
In the near future I will probably stop using the Web as much. I'm certain now that soon the Web will at best be about as open and user focused as Android and iOS are today.
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by bobajeff 3y ago
It's rare for something as popular as Linux, NT, BSD or XNU to come along but just because they aren't widespread and popular doesn't mean nobody is writing them.
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by bobajeff 3y ago
> When linking, I find the libraries on disk, load them, call a function in each dynamic library that returns a list of procedures that can be used when linking. This external linking enables Onyx to use any native C library, from Raylib
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I also don't live in a city with useable mass transit either. Bus routes take far longer to get to a place than by car and there are no train or subway lines nearby. Every place I've ever lived you needed a car to get around. That
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I've heard about Sublime Text but never considered getting it. The first code editor I ever got any real use out of was vscode. Which until recently was perfect (some feature regressions and issues with crashing.) At this point the las
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I've been keeping an eye on this one. This holds the most promise of replacing vscode for me. Right now, Kate is more mature and stable at the moment. But I think once it gets further along it'll definitely kick the pants off of t
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by bobajeff 3y ago
Yes but until we have this "more better thing" please continue to expose your libraries to the c FFI. Also, please make sure it's actually better before telling everyone to use it. Thanks.
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I think it's pretty cool. Maybe browsers are the kind of thing that should be written in s high level language like js. Except for the JavaScript engine of course.
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The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead [video](youtube.com)
4 points by bobajeff 3y ago|1 comments
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If they hadn't EOLed Flash then projects like Ruffle would have the difficult job of playing catch up with a proprietary runtime that would still be in wide use.
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I'm interested too. What protocol are you working on, if you don't mind sharing?
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People are still saying that Google's index (and server clusters) are far and above the competition and that might be still true but what does it matter when they are throwing out indexed data from older pages? Also if most of the webs
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I also used webgpufundamentals.org to learn webgpu native. Only for me I was porting the examples to C. (I also used WGPU as the backend as I find it easier to debug than Dawn.) I agree it keeps you thinking about how to do things as oppose
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by bobajeff 3y ago
>But if Valve really needs to go that far, why invent a whole new API for it? Why not just copy win32? I can think of at least two reasons: Legal - APIs might be copyrightable in the future. Control over changes - Not having to play ketc
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I'd like to see an alternative to the Web as well. The truth is that we don't need web browsers as much as we need say Wikipedia, YouTube, Reddit, Amazon, Facebook, GitHub, StackOverflow etc. And we don't need those sites so
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by bobajeff 3y ago
Also they force you to upgrade by refusing to activate old versions of Windows. Plus they force you tie your outlook account to your Windows install in order to make them stop asking you about it during login. Google search is useless now.
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I did some time ago. Back then it seemed like Flutter was like a parallel world where a different set of languages and APIs existed instead of the Web APIs. Which I thought was interesting. However unlike Web APIs Flutter didn't have t
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I don't use frameworks or compile to js languages. I've only learned the plain html, css, js and DOM APIs. I have the same reservations about React and Typescript as I do these mobile APIs. Then again my use of these things is tha
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by bobajeff 3y ago
I've mostly stayed away from mobile development because Android projects look too complicated to get started on even NDK projects. The value of learning those APIs to me isn't even close to what you get by learning Web APIs. So if

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