On this day in 2001 Wikipedia was first edited. That was 25 years ago. A cause for celebration.
Have you made an edit to Wikipedia? If not, today would be a good day to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day
Given my involvement in Radicle, I don't want to create a page for it on Wikipedia, but maybe someone else would like to start one? Probably add it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities as well.
#Wikipedia #Radicle
On this day in 2001 Wikipedia was first edited. That was 25 years ago. A cause for celebration.
Have you made an edit to Wikipedia? If not, today would be a good day to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day
I should write an essay on why I dislike, even despise, awards. I mean awards like "best song" or "best book". It'd be therapeutic, I'm sure, but it'd take too much time.
The gist of it is that I've seen them almost always go to those who are already popular, ignoring and dismissing those who diligently do good work out of the limelight.
This is a subtoot. I will not be answering questions.
I distilled my four hour Rust training course for FOSS developer into a web page. I hope it's useful to people.
This is the first full draft. It's probably going to need updates and fixes. Please reply to this message if you spot anything wrong. But feel free to boost and share if you want.
https://liw.fi/distilled-rust/
#Rust #RustLang
Tell those who build the open source software you use that you use it, and why you appreciate it.
I don't accept donations, but I really appreciate positive feedback for any of my little projects. From talking to friends in the open source software development community, I know I'm not the only one.
This is especially important for the lesser known software.
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/donations/
Can you resist voting in this poll?
If I write something and people misunderstand it, is it that I expressed myself badly or that people are just stupid and should realize I am brilliant and say nothing until they agree with me?
That's a leading question
Of course it's neither. Both sides in communication have to try their best to understand the other. Either side can be at fault and often both are.
But as a rule of thumb for writers, the writer is at fault until proven otherwise. This rule helps me develop as a communicator.
When I was a lot younger I wrote C string handling libraries that I used for my own projects or for work projects. I have Opinions™
about this. But it's no longer a battle I care to engage in. There is no way to win, without leaving C behind.
C strings are a sequence of bytes ending in a zero byte. It's awkward, cumbersome, error prone & stupid in many ways, but in the early 1970s, having strings with a length field was expensive. When your biggest computer has about 9 KiB of RAM, spending two or four bytes to express the length of a string was hideously expensive. A one byte terminator was the cheapest option in terms of memory use.
There's more resources available today, but entrenched fundamentals are quite difficult to change.
When I was a lot younger I wrote C string handling libraries that I used for my own projects or for work projects. I have Opinions™ about this. But it's no longer a battle I care to engage in. There is no way to win, without leaving C behind.
Hey Google, the only way you're allowed to celebrate my birthday is to gift me at least a billion euros. I don't want you to spam me with birthday wishes. They're not welcome from a bot. Especially not a bot run by a faceless, inhumane corporation.
Lars Wirzenius