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by fermigier 3y ago
I did a presentation last year with a couple slides on experience reports: https://fermigier.com/slides/2023-htmx-OSXP/#30 I will probably have more stories to tell later this year.
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by fermigier 3y ago
Cool idea. I had a similar one a few weeks ago, with this additional idea of turning this into a "real" templating language (e.g. by adding a special construct for conditionals, looping, variables, macro expansion...).
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by fermigier 3y ago
I have been working on a (currently half-baked) similar project: - < https://github.com/abilian/webbits > Inspirations for the idea of generating HTML code from Python: - < https://www.yattag.org/
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by fermigier 3y ago
Potential alternatives: - https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly (BSL-licensed, aka not OSS). - https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB (BSD-licensed) Anyone using one of these?
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by fermigier 3y ago
(I'm not a theoretical physicist). 20 years ago, I read "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, as an introduction to string theory. I was initially impressed by the brilliance of the theories it presented. What really threw
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by fermigier 3y ago
Yeah. She was awarded the Crafoord prize this year, a distinction similar to the Nobel prize in other disciplines. (Other mathematicians who were awarded the prize include Grothendieck, Deligne, Connes, Tao, Bombieri...).
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European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU(edps.europa.eu)
159 points by fermigier 3y ago|106 comments
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by fermigier 3y ago
Also https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-foss-alternatives (made by me).
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by fermigier 3y ago
I sense an "Out of the tar pit" influence. Am I mistaken?
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by fermigier 3y ago
Great job. Some benchmarks would be interesting, but I can't contribute ATM.
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by fermigier 3y ago
I find it mind-boggling that he has been doing this for 50+ years.
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by fermigier 3y ago
6502 and 6809 are the favourite CPUs of my youth (the Z80 and 8080, not so much).
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by fermigier 3y ago
Where is your company incorporated? (e.g do you comply with the GDPR?). This should be stated on the website.
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by fermigier 3y ago
Well, just to better understand how the code is organized (and experiment a bit with it), I have forked it: https://github.com/sfermigier/scrapscript/tree/trunk/src/scr...
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by fermigier 3y ago
This reminds me of a talk Tim Berners-Lee did in 2002 (at the 10th Python conference): https://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0206-python/ ("Webizing Python") I wasn't there but I remember hearing that
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by fermigier 3y ago
Is this the reason why there is only one 5+ KLOC module (which includes the tests)? I personally prefer short / shorter modules with clear responsibilities.
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by fermigier 3y ago
Zag is 66% Smalltalk and 33% Zig (approx.). [~/ghq/github.com/dvmason/Zag-Smalltalk]$ cloc . Language files blank comment code ---------------------------------------------
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by fermigier 3y ago
https://github.com/kitao/pyxel - "A retro game engine for Python", is quite popular in the education sphere, AFAICT.
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by fermigier 3y ago
I worked on/with CAS in the 1990s, mostly PARI/GP (as a researcher) and Maple (as an assistant/junior professor). I remember watching a talk by one of the Axiom developers, maybe T. Daly himself, on the Jussieu University Cam
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by fermigier 3y ago
"Here's my favorite example, here: 1928, my hero, Walt Disney, created this extraordinary work, the birth of Mickey Mouse in the form of Steamboat Willie. But what you probably don't recognize about Steamboat Willie and his e
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by fermigier 3y ago
"I'm sad to say I must be on my way So buy me beer or whiskey, 'cause I'm going far away" Farewell Shane. My first concert was the Pogues in late 1986 or early 1987. "Boys from the county hell", "Dirt
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by fermigier 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. The "Flash Invaders" app fosters a (friendly) competition among Invaders fans (often, families), so publishing a map is a way of distorting the competition (i.e. "cheating") and so, a bi
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by fermigier 3y ago
That's only one part of the equation.
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by fermigier 3y ago
Why not KDE ?
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by fermigier 3y ago
The money for this grant actually comes, in part, from the European Commission (via the NGI programme).
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by fermigier 3y ago
"Web development" means many different things to different people. I believe a sensible approach, for some (including me), is: 1. Learn back-end web programming (HTTP request/response model, templating, sessions, security, th
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by fermigier 3y ago
I'm using mostly Python (+ Flask, Sanic, Litestar...) for the back-end and HTMX for the "front-end".
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by fermigier 3y ago
I met maddog circa 2000 in Paris for an event I had co-organised. We asked him a lot of questions, and got some insightful answers (sometimes wrapped in long stories, like in the linked article). The one I remember most: "Q: how can we
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by fermigier 3y ago
SWIG was created 27 years ago. I've used it when it was the only game in town and I'm grateful for it. Now there are many other options, at least for Python. Use the one that suits you best.
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European Parliament’s version of the CRA threatens cybersecurity and OSS(blog.mozilla.org)
29 points by fermigier 3y ago|4 comments

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