Ruud van Asseldonk

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[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Much more people are creating Mastodon accounts now than I ever expected. I created one at Fosstodon. (Not sure if I’ll stick with it, let’s see how well it works.)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Semi-related, I mirror all of my GitHub repositories on https://t.co/JDk0e9uJLJ.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Much more people are creating Mastodon accounts now than I ever expected. I created one at Fosstodon. (Not sure if I’ll stick with it, let’s see how well it works.)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

@pjotrprins The instance no longer exists :'(

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

In the past few weeks, many websites started crashing in Chromium, with some datetime / time zone related error in the console, and the page completely blank. All of them use react.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

So far I don’t think I would ever use it for a serious application, but I wouldn’t use C for that either (any more, now that Rust exists). But I think I can kind of see the appeal of Go, it is fun to play around without any abstractions sometimes.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

For AoC I’m finally making a serious attempt at writing Go. Impression after two days: it feels low-level, closer to C than to Rust or Python. Maybe it’s the obscure names like atoi and bare bones printf, maybe the need for checking return codes.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

I still truly do not understand how something that is so obviously a bad idea (template yaml) with such an obvious correct alternative (generate json) managed to become so popular.

[memenetes @memenetes]

Fixing indentation errors in YAML templates in a Helm chart

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

I hope that the hype around ChatGPT, and how easy it is to make it say things that its authors have actively tried to prevent it from saying, will create some more awareness about AI alignment.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://t.co/YIqS7Nglpd

[alice maz @alicemazzy]

teehee. that was one try. here's without the fluffing

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

SSDs are affordable enough now that I can fit my entire music collection on one. All those disk seek optimisations and loading animations I put in Musium are instantly obsolete!

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Turns out Unison is not recognized by GitHub 🙍

But this does inspire me for tomorrow: Nix!

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Advent of Code is coming up and I’m running out of obscure languages to try ... Any recommendations?

On my radar so far:
• Hoon
• Unison

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

I think this was the drop, I’m setting Nemo as my default file manager.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Huh, my file browser looks completely different and the border radius is up to 11 now ... oh right, I installed updates, and it’s been a quarter since Gnome’s last design overhaul 🤦

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

@rikarends Nix.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Nginx, but instead of loading files to serve from the file system, it reads them from a Git tree. Does this exist?

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

Software calling itself “modern” has become so meaningless that some tools now need to call themselves “post-modern”.

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

@nikitonsky @rsms Tabs on the OS level ... like the Windows start bar and then maximizing all windows?

[Ruud van Asseldonk @vmulps]

For a moment, I thought that this bug that I reported 13 years ago on Launchpad, in a piece of software that I don’t even remember, was just fixed ... but it’s only that the bug tracker got migrated to GitHub, and a bot posted a link to the new location.

[The Unicode Consortium @unicode]

We're excited to announce the 1.0 release of our new internationalization library, ICU4X!

ICU4X is modular, usable on low-resource devices, and can be used in many environments including Rust, C++, and JavaScript.

Read more here: https://t.co/4W51ztA9V9