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While we Blink, we lose the Web (andregarzia.com)
This the first time I am submitting a post made by me here. I wrote that too quickly but I think it is a relevant discussion that we should all be having. I'd love feedback on it.
Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers (jetgirl.art)
Lua, a misunderstood language (andregarzia.com)
Raspberry Pi 500+ launched (raspberrypi.com)
New edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, it is a JS version (mitpress.mit.edu)
What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It? (howtogeek.com)
Firefox 70 — a bountiful release for all (hacks.mozilla.org)
Why I choose Lua for this blog (andregarzia.com)
Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader (andregarzia.com)
Racket is 25 (blog.racket-lang.org)
Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care (ar.al)
Huawei Just Started Selling Laptops With A Beautiful Linux OS Pre-Installed (forbes.com)
Gemini Is A Little Gem (andregarzia.com)
Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon (hacks.mozilla.org)
What are your favourite small internet protocols?
Hi, I'm developing a very small little browser for the small internet called Fafi[1]. It used to be just a Gemini browser but today I added support for text protocol[2] as well. I want to add Mercury support as well, but I'm having some trouble finding live Mercury servers online. That got me...
On rants about laptops for developers (andregarzia.com)
Languages that compile to Lua (andregarzia.com)
What non-electron cross-platform GUI toolkit do you enjoy using?
I know this is very subjective. My objective with this question is not to determine what is the best solution out there but collect some feedback and stories on what people been using. Threads like this are an opportunity to discover new stuff as well as I bet someone will link some niche kit that w...
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was (baldurbjarnason.com)
MNT Reform: The Campaign is Live (crowdsupply.com)
LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (andregarzia.com)
HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books (laurent.le-brun.eu)
Oberon on bare metal Raspberry Pi (github.com)
A Smalltalk-80 Interpreted Virtual Machine on LuaJIT (github.com)
What is a good journaling desktop application?
I'm starting a new job and I think I can benefit from keeping a personal diary of it, a little job journal. Even though I am tempted to do it in paper, I think that having an app which I can search and jump to dates might be better. I am not looking to create my own wiki or documentation, it is more...
The Web Should Be A Conversation (andregarzia.com)
A year with the Surface Go (andregarzia.com)
The Haiku Project Celebrates the Release of Beta 3 (haiku-os.org)
Firefox Tricks - Using alternate stylesheets (andregarzia.com)
Feed and Blogrolls Discovery (andregarzia.com)