**It starts! From now to thursday, join us at MiniDebConf Portugal 2023!

#MiniDCpt**
It starts! From now to thursday, join us at MiniDebConf Portugal 2023!

#MiniDCpt

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@prologic@twtxt.net do you have an example somewhere? want to tinker a bit and use libcurl for it

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

@prologic@twtxt.net the rm -rf is basically what go clean -modcache does.
I think you can use another form that will remove just the deps for a specific module. go clean -r

@prologic@twtxt.net the rm -rf is basically what go clean -modcache does.
I think you can use another form that will remove just the deps for a specific module. go clean -r

Release Radar, Festive Edition · December 2022 – January 2023
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has been celebrating – us too! Now we’re taking a moment to celebrate these awesome open source projects that shipped major version releases during December and […] ⌘ Read more

Dino: Dino 0.4 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

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Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
They … ⌘ Read more

** week notes **
It got a wee bit cold here in Maine this weekend. It was thankfully uneventful for us. We hung around inside and watched it get real cold outside. Our home faired pretty well, too. Honestly pleasantly surprised about that!

We picked this weekend to go all in on potty training — pantsless days, treats, rousing bouts of encouragement sung, and a lot of spot cleaning. Fueled by hubris, I thought we had this potty trainin … ⌘ Read more

At least I started on something today. Been months and months since I did anything. I started on a asset I want to use in a short I want to make some day.
Not done yet at all, but blocking things out just so I get a feel for it.

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Yet another AI application
AI is currently finding its way more and more into various software. There is ChatGPT, which sometimes feels like an all-knowing human, DeepL uses artificial intelligence not only for its translator, but also for its new tool that improves written text, or Bunny.net provides an API to generate images “on the edge”. ⌘ Read more

Are Aliens Smarter Than Us? With Neil deGrasse Tyson and David Grinspoon ⌘ Read more

How the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects
Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing. ⌘ Read more

4th Dimensional Beings Probably Look At Us Like Stick Figures In A 2D Universe ⌘ Read more

Enable No-Code Kubernetes with the harpoon Docker Extension
Find out how to use the harpoon Docker Extension to deploy Kubernetes without any code right from Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more

GoBlog plugins enable completely new and optional functionality. Andrés created a plugin to show the song currently playing on his blog. I use this plugin for now as well. 🎶 If you don’t see a song in the header, I’m probably not listening to music right now. 😅 ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Several reasons:

• It’s another language to learn (SQL)
  
• It adds another dependency to your system
  
• It’s another failure mode (database blows up, scheme changes, indexs, etc)
  
• It increases security problems (now you have to worry about being SQL-safe)
  

And most of all, in my experience, it doesn’t actually solve any problems that a good key/value store can solve with good indexes and good data structures. I’m just no longer a fan, I used to use MySQL, SQLite, etc back in the day, these days, nope I wouldn’t even go anywhere near a database (for my own projects) if I can help it – It’s just another thing that can fail, another operational overhead.

I’ll visit South-East Europe (Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Constantinople) this Summer
I’ll be in south eastern Europe this summer (of 2023) in late June and early July.

Specific plans are still in the air, but I’ll be visiting Greece, Albania, Montenegro and possibly the European side of Turkey.
I’ll also be in Kosovo, and while I know I have some fans in Serbia, I’m not sure I can cross into Serbia proper easily since the US accepts Kosovo as independent, but I believe that being there would be a … ⌘ Read more

so discount rates are bad mmkay say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?

Man discovers If Statements, becomes A.I. expert
“I can use these If-statements to actually make a computer think. To make decisions. Woah.” ⌘ Read more

Bypassing OGNL sandboxes for fun and charities
Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. Learn more about bypassing certain OGNL injection protection mechanisms including those used by Struts and Atlassian Confluence, as well as different approaches to analyzing this form of protection so you can harden similar systems. ⌘ Read more

Gonna buy some firewood today, to use in our firepit, love sitting outside late - make some good food for my kids on the fire, then just sit and talk and have fun, look at the stars etc :) Gonna be a nice weekend for sure.

Thanks for the suggestion. One can also simply use netcat.

Code Lifespan
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I’m in Minnesota, US, where this gopher hole is located.

100 million developers and counting
There are now 100 million developers around the world using GitHub. Here’s what this means—and why it’s just the beginning. ⌘ Read more

Generating SBOMs for Your Image with BuildKit
Learn how to use BuildKit v0.11 to generate SBOMs so you (and your users) can quickly answer questions about your images and packages. ⌘ Read more

Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app. ⌘ Read more

Is it allowed to use your server magical.fish by telnet? I can reach port 71 by telnet and get the chat seite with input chat. wha

I have a fanless pc, with intel I7 (if I remember correct). Today Ill get it installed with latest alma linux, set up the things I want with docker (I usually do not use docker I just do not like it), but I see how useful it can be, so Im going to force my self to use it. Then when all services are running Ill use wireguard to hook it up to my VPS. I think this will be a great setup.

@mckinley@twtxt.net i use pass along with the android and browser-pass clients. it is very good and keeping in sync is pretty simple.

@mckinley@twtxt.net i use pass along with the android and browser-pass clients. it is very good and keeping in sync is pretty simple.

#randomQuestionOfTheDay

What password manager do you use? Or, why none?

Port 71 belongs to Magical.gopher. You need to be using OpenNic dns for it to work.

How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features. ⌘ Read more

Hey @kdx@kdx.re What clinet are you using?

I don’t use twtxt anymore, but I keep accidentally adding logs to it because the command I use to use !say is so similar to the shortcut I use to make !zet messages. So, some of my logs make no sense because they are out of context.

well. simple. Is there more security, if I use Port 71?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I have always used : https://tranquillity.se/

Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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Almost three months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features.

A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will b … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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Two months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features.

A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will be removed … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.01

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Two months after the previous release, ejabberd 23.01 includes many bug fixes, several improvements and some new features.

A new module, mod_mqtt_bridge, can be used to replicate changes to MQTT topics between local and remote servers.

A more detailed explanation of those topics and other features:

Remember that support for Erlang/OTP 19.3 is discouraged, and will be removed … ⌘ Read more

I just signed this “cease and desist” letter to fossil fuel CEOs from @GretaThunberg, @vanessa_vash, @SumakHelena, and @Luisamneubauer. It demands an end to the fossil fuel projects that are destroying our planet. Join us! @Davos @wef #wef23 https://fb.avaaz.org/campaign/en/davos_2023_loc/?twi
I just signed this “cease and desist” letter to fossil fuel CEOs from @GretaThunberg, @vanessa_vash, [@SumakHel … ⌘ Read more

Finally back! My VPS’s main drive got toasted. I got a freshly installed VPS now, got yarn set up and working now, now I have to fix the rest of the stuff.
I’ve been using apache for many many years, but I had so many issues getting it set up today, so I switched to nginx, and that took me like 2 minutes.. So yeah - I’ll use nginx from now on.

@xuu@txt.sour.is that doesn’t seem to fit the spirit of the spec, at least by my read (I could be wrong obv). The example on Wikipedia’s webfinger page,

{
	"subject": "acct:bob@example.com",
	"aliases": [
		"https://www.example.com/~bob/"
	],
	"properties": {
		"http://example.com/ns/role": "employee"
	},
	"links": [{
			"rel": "http://webfinger.example/rel/profile-page",
			"href": "https://www.example.com/~bob/"
		},
		{
			"rel": "http://webfinger.example/rel/businesscard",
			"href": "https://www.example.com/~bob/bob.vcf"
		}
	]
}

and then the comparison with how mastodon uses webfinger,

{
    "subject": "acct:Mastodon@mastodon.social",
    "aliases": [
        "https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon",
        "https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon"
    ],
    "links": [
        {
            "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
            "type": "text/html",
            "href": "https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon"
        },
        {
            "rel": "self",
            "type": "application/activity+json",
            "href": "https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon"
        },
        {
            "rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe",
            "template": "https://mastodon.social/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}"
        }
    ]
}

suggests to me you want to leave the subject/acct bit as is (don’t add prefixes) and put extra information you care to include in the links section, where you’re free to define the rel URIs however you see fit. The notion here is that webfinger is offering a mapping from an account name to additional information about that account, so if anything you’d use a "subject": "acct:SALTY ACCOUNT_REPRESENTATION" line in the JSON to achieve what you’re saying if you don’t want to do that via links.

@prologic@twtxt.net Unfortunately the RFC’s are a bit light in this regard. While it makes mention of different kinds of accounts like mailto: or status services.. it never combines them. It does make mention of using redirects to forward a request to other webfingers to provide additional detail.

I am kinda partial to using salty:acct:me@sour.is, yarn:acct:xuu@txt.sour.is, mailto:me@sour.is that could redirect to a specific service. and a parent account acct:me@sour.is that would reference them in some way. either in properties or aliases.

@prologic@twtxt.net Unfortunately the RFC’s are a bit light in this regard. While it makes mention of different kinds of accounts like mailto: or status services.. it never combines them. It does make mention of using redirects to forward a request to other webfingers to provide additional detail.

I am kinda partial to using salty:acct:me@sour.is, yarn:acct:xuu@txt.sour.is, mailto:me@sour.is that could redirect to a specific service. and a parent account acct:me@sour.is that would reference them in some way. either in properties or aliases.

Paul Schaub: Use Any SOP Binary With SOP-Java and External-SOP
The Stateless OpenPGP Protocol specification describes a shared, standardized command line interface for OpenPGP applications. There is a bunch of such binaries available already, among them PGPainless’ pgpainless-cli, Sequoia-PGP’s sqop, as well as ProtonMails [gosop](https://github.com/ProtonMa … ⌘ Read more

Develop Your Cloud App Locally with the LocalStack Extension
Learn how to use the LocalStack Docker Extension to emulate a cloud service locally with Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Building a Remote Control Car from Scratch Using Elixir

Elixir is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive full stack languages available, offering battle-tested reliability and fault-tolerance on the backend. This is thanks to its origins in Erlang, the BEAM VM and OTP, powerful and agile frontend development thanks to LiveView and the ability to write to hardware with Nerves (not to mention the exciting developments happening in the mac … ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Gizmodo stuns world by publishing Tech article
“We won’t let computers distract us from our core mission…complaining about Elon Musk” ⌘ Read more

I had an AWS training in November and have the opportunity to get the “Certified Developer Associate” certificate. Even though I have two attempts, I want to do well on the first shot. Since the trainer didn’t show us everything that is required for the exam, I’m kind of re-doing the training with this Udemy course (luckily I have access to Udemy Business and don’t have to pay for it). It’s really helpful because it helps me demystify the AWS cloud and reduce the 🤯 whenever I do something in the AWS console. ⌘ Read more

Passwordless deployments to the cloud
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotations). ⌘ Read more

Default setup: A new way to enable GitHub code scanning
Default setup is a new way to automatically set up code scanning on your repository, without the use of a .yaml file. ⌘ Read more

Nice to see that there is such a variety of MicroPub clients, next to Quill, Micropublish and the mobile app Indigenous, there’s also sparkles. But on the desktop, I mostly just use GoBlog’s editor nowadays. It has live sync and and a live preview, which is sometimes very helpful. But flexibility is the key, use what fits you and the situation the best. ⌘ Read more

My first Freeletics week
My first Freeletics week is complete. And I got a badge for the first “perfect week”. I hope this gamification (levels and badges for perfect weeks, perfect week streaks, training session milestones etc.) will make me pull through. My girl friend also joined me and started using Freeletics. 🤓 ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November. ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Happy New Year – and #PublicDomainDay!

Find out the implications for libraries and what works you’re free to now use, remix, and share in new ways – including the classic 1927 films #Metropolis, #Sunrise & #Wings

Read more: http://bit.ly/3G9LrnB**
Happy New Year – and #PublicDomainDay!

Find out the implications for libraries and what works you’re free to now use, remix, and share in new ways – including the classic 1927 films [#Metropolis](http … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/

Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Beloved Rogue, starring John Barrymore
https://archive.org/details/TheBelovedRogue**
As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: [blog.arc … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23publicdomainday”>#publicdomainday**
Happy Public Domain Day 2023! Let’s celebrate in style with Erma Bossi’s fun painting “Circus”, which just entered the Public Domain – meaning it is now free to re-use and remix by anyone! #publicdomainday

![](https://nitter.net/pi … ⌘ Read more

Interesting. Ive been using backupninja with Borg for snapshots.

Interesting. Ive been using backupninja with Borg for snapshots.

restic · Backups done right! – In case no-one has used this wonderful tool restic yet, I can beyond a doubt assure you it is really quite fantastic 👌 #backups

Did something chchange with how the discover feed is generated? My pods logout mode now only shows my twts. It used to be all twts from watcher observation like my logged on discover tab. @prologic@twtxt.net

Did something chchange with how the discover feed is generated? My pods logout mode now only shows my twts. It used to be all twts from watcher observation like my logged on discover tab. @prologic@twtxt.net

One of the frustrating parts of using twtxt for conversations is the URLs are, well… ugly. Anyone (like y’all yarn folks) looked at using webfinger for translating user@domain accounts to URLs?

@prologic@twtxt.net and @justamoment, this Gitxt project sounds really interesting. Can you tell us about some of your goals?

How Rockets Use Oxygen As Fuel | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more

Pleroma’s gopher server barfs if you arrive to it using domain.tld/1/ so it means I can’t link to it from here, but if you just enter domain.tld it works

Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more

An interesting read about testing code using nullable states instead of mocks.

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks

An interesting read about testing code using nullable states instead of mocks.

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks

Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire!
We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.

I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.

If you’re interested, please sign up to [Ignite Realtime localizati … ⌘ Read more

Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023

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I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.

Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net see where its used maybe that can help.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/app/peerfinder/http.go#L153

This is an upsert. So I pass a streamID which is like a globally unique id for the object. And then see how the type of the parameter in the function is used to infer the generic type. In the function it will create a new *Info and populate it from the datastore to pass to the function. The func will do its modifications and if it returns a nil error it will commit the changes.

The PA type contract ensures that the type fulfills the Aggregate interface and is a pointer to type at compile time.

@prologic@twtxt.net see where its used maybe that can help.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/app/peerfinder/http.go#L153

This is an upsert. So I pass a streamID which is like a globally unique id for the object. And then see how the type of the parameter in the function is used to infer the generic type. In the function it will create a new *Info and populate it from the datastore to pass to the function. The func will do its modifications and if it returns a nil error it will commit the changes.

The PA type contract ensures that the type fulfills the Aggregate interface and is a pointer to type at compile time.

A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them … ⌘ Read more

How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. ⌘ Read more

@deepend@yourtilde.com We here in the twtxt universe are too Calm™ for the birdsite. Its dramas — which are neverending — do not concern us. Its madness is not our own. Isn’t it a great feeling to be separate from all that?

@prologic@twtxt.net so basically you would use cgit + gitbug with some webhooks?

@prologic@twtxt.net so basically you would use cgit + gitbug with some webhooks?

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess that refresh field could be easily replaced with Expires HTTP header (I realize that users on neocities.org cannot control this header, for example). And clients should also respect headers like Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since (304), you’re right about that. P.S. twtwt doens’t have a caching mechanism for now, but I plan to implement it in generic way using HTTP headers.

How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more

Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension
Use the Dive-In Docker Extension to see how to reduce image size in an easy-to-use UI. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net: I understand the benefits of using hashes, it’s much easier to implement client applications (at the expense of ease of use without the proper client). I must say that I like the way the metadata extension is done. Simple and elegant! It’s hard to design simple things!

@prologic@twtxt.net On the one hand, twtxt has become more popular thanks to Yarn.social. On the other hand, subject and hashtag extensions took away the simplicity of the protocol. For example, it is impossible to understand which conversation (#base32hash) a tweet refers to or to reply to a tweet without going to a yarn.social pod. Compare with re: in this tweet which can be written without using any client at all

Apple has changed… and not in a good way.
Apple of 2022 is not the same company it used to be. It has, to be frank, lost its way. ⌘ Read more

one that i think is pretty interesting is building up dependent constraints. see here.. it accepts a type but requires the use of a pointer to type.

https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/pkg/es/es.go#L315-L325

one that i think is pretty interesting is building up dependent constraints. see here.. it accepts a type but requires the use of a pointer to type.

https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/pkg/es/es.go#L315-L325

Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0
MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an … ⌘ Read more

I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix? ⌘ Read more

Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language – Okay @xuu@txt.sour.is I quite like Go’s generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I’m glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 #GoLang #Generics

Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.

It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more

Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @enddrm
#DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campa … ⌘ Read more

My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence. ⌘ Read more

Anyone uses the putr command? (to access pdp11 disk images)

Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more

Learning how to use ImageMagick for something else than just for resizing of pictures.