Programming Leftovers
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No more updates for nodejs14, below in Leap 15.4 - openSUSE News
As of today, nodejs14 as well as any older nodejs versions will no longer receive updates in openSUSE Leap 15.4.
Users are adviced to switch to nodejs16 instead. The nodejs16 version is an official package in Leap 15.4 despite software.opensuse.org not visibly showing the tag. There is a issue filed to fix that on the website.
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Linux is not just for developers and command line pros | ZDNET
I'm not a developer. Although, I did study C++ back in the 90s and that was really the extent of it. I did very well in my classes but quickly realized I had no desire to become a developer. And, as everyone knows, if you don't use it, you lose it. It took very little time for my brain to jettison everything I'd learned about C++.
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Godot Engine - Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0
This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. It has already been merged, so anything you read in this post can be done in the current beta version (beta 3).
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the 3D features of Godot 4 that have been improved such as rendering, physics, etc. To make those improvements widely known, we should make it easier to create 3D games with Godot so that more people will be able to use them.
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Meson Release 0.64.0
The optimization built-in option now accepts plain value, which will not set any optimization flags. This is now the default value of the flag for buildtype=plain, which is useful for distros, that set the optimization and hardening flags by other means.
If you are using the value of get_option('optimization') in your Meson scripts, make sure you are not making assumptions about it, such as that the value can be passed to a compiler in -O flag.
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It is not possible to portably grant the sticky bit to a file, and where possible, it doesn't do anything. It is not expected that any users are using this functionality.
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A new command has been added: meson wrap update-db. It downloads the list of wraps available in WrapDB and stores it locally in subprojects/wrapdb.json. When that file exists and a dependency is not found on the system but is available in WrapDB, Meson will automatically download it.
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Markdownify: Markdown Editor for Windows, Linux and macOS
Markdownify is a free lightweight open-source Markdown editor that comes with a dozen of useful features.
It supports KaTeX out-of-box, allows you to export your notes and documents in PDF format, and supports multiple cursors.
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2022.45 Evaluersion - Rakudo Weekly News
Anton Antonov has published a blog post (and associated video) about the conversion and evaluation of Raku files (/r/rakulang comments) into Mathematica and Jupyter notebooks.