I’m not a magician. If you possess the uncanny ability to elucidate concepts like open source software/hardware to the average consumer and their relation to consumer products then — you’re a literal magician. Magic.

nikitonsky: If only there was enough horizontal space for job names instead of meaningless “Matrix…” prefix.

I just noticed that Mastodon prefixes a user’s homepage URL route with the @at symbol. Pragmatic and clever name spacing? Tempting. Though I’d still prefer a URL of the form:

https://example.com/user

Instead of:

https://example.com/@user

Yeah… superficial, but it looks cleaner.

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Applications often use HTTP as a substrate to create HTTP-based APIs. This document specifies best practices for writing specifications

For the last year, we’ve been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are, and how we made rust-minidump. The …

In my country, political PR has at least three classes/levels. These are: spin doctor, spin master, and spin grand–master. Most citizens are easily spooked, so it’s easy pickings for politicians/journalists/pundits — the usual. It’s best to ignore news/politics. Tracking outrage is a fundamental futility, unless it’s your job. ;-)

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nikitonsky: Before using our alarm clock, let it go to the internet, accept User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Alarm clock!

Claws Mail is a great GUI mail client. It interoperates nicely with any text editor and has a flat file design structure (many use case possibilities). The negatives are that the interface is a bit dated and runs on a single thread.