It is unreasonable going forward to expect the same handful of companies to provide all the funding.

The ooc language is known to be friendly to C libraries, and we have a slew of them covered on GitHub, but one common hurdle is how to correctly declare extern functions.

For an ooc function prototype, there are many types of arguments. You can go with regular variable declarations, like so:

But in this case, a and b have the same type, so you can also use multi-declarations to shorten it a bit:

I was planning on showing the in-progress async_fn_in_trait feature in the context of my website, but it turns out, I can’t!

My website uses two databases: one local SQLite database for content, and a shared Postgres database for user credentials, preferences etc. Migrations are run on startup, and each migration implements one of the following traits:

I use the draw.io desktop app to make diagrams for my website. I run it on an actual desktop, like Windows or macOS, but the asset pipeline that converts .drawio files, to .pdf, to .svg, and then to .svg again (but smaller) runs on Linux.

So I have a Rust program somewhere that opens headless chromium, and loads just the HTML/JS/CSS part of draw.io I need to render my diagrams, and then use Chromium’s “print to PDF” functionality to save a PDF.

Last week-end, I participated to Ludum Dare for the fourth time in a row!

Downloads: Linux (64) | OS/X | Windows

So here is our entry: Legithief. The backstory is simple, yet cunning: you are an ordinary thief practicing ordinary acts of thievery in the houses of ordinary people to make a living. But one day.. you are quietly robbing yet another home, when you are suddenly smashed in the head with a bat.

This article is brought to you by a shameless nerd snipe, courtesy of Pascal.

In case you’ve blocked Twitter for your own good, this reads:

There should be a post explaining and comparing smolstr and smartstring (and maybe others, like smallstr)

Well, I took the bait.

But, since this is me writing, I get to set the rules:

• There will be no “maybe others” - we’ll review just the first two

I recently had a bit of impromptu disaster recovery, and it gave me a hunger for more! More downtime! More kubernetes manifest! More DNS! Ahhhh!

The plan was really simple. I love dedicated Hetzner servers with all my heart but they are not very fungible.

You have to wait entire minutes for a new dedicated server to be provisioned. Sometimes you pay a setup fee, et cetera. And at some point to server static websites and serve as a K3S server, it’s simply just too big, and approximately twice the price that I should pay.

Another day, another problem.

This time the problem looks suspiciously like Conway’s Game of Life, or, I guess, any old Cellular automaton.

We have a map like so:

And for each iteration:

• L symbols turn into # if there’s no # in any of the 8 adjacent cells

I’ve been bragging about my website software for years! For… whew, it’s been 5 years!

I’ve been teasing folks about the cool things I did from the beginning — here are all the articles and series I’ve written that mention it:

• 2020: A new website
• 2021: Don’t shell out!
• 2022: Updating fasterthanli.me

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Here are all the changes I’m implementing, summarized as a table: