Programming Leftovers
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2023.03 Advent Radux - Rakudo Weekly News
Brian Duggan wrote a nice blog post about their use of the Raku Programming Language in their solution of 2022 Advent Of Code problems (/r/rakulang comments).
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Quirks, Site Interventions And Fixing Websites - otsukare
Site Specific Hacks are pieces of WebKit code (called Quirks internally) to change the behavior of the browser in order to repair for the user a broken behavior from a website.
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Servo to Advance in 2023 [Ed: Google/Mozilla stuff dying/stagnating in so-called 'Linux' Foundation. This is their first blog post in almost 3 years!]
We would like to share some exciting news about the Servo project. This year, thanks to new external funding, a team of developers will be actively working on Servo. The first task is to reactivate the project and the community around it, so we can attract new collaborators and sponsors for the project.
The focus for 2023 is to improve the situation of the layout system in Servo, with the initial goal of getting basic CSS2 layout working. Given the renewed activity in the project, we will keep you posted with more updates throughout the year. Stay tuned!
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Started learning SDL v1.2 came to a stop
As posted yesterday, I'm a glutton for punishment sometimes
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JavaScript developers: Here are the top trends and tools | ZDNET
The 2022 State of JavaScript survey of nearly 40,000 developers has identified the most popular, emerging and waning technologies used by JavaScript developers.
The annual JavaScript survey, whose sponsors include Google, highlights new frontend frameworks, such as Solid and Qwik, that are challenging stalwarts like React. It also looks at rendering frameworks, testing tools, mobile and desktop development, and various build tools.
The survey assesses each technology based on their retention ratio and user count. High usage/high retention technologies (a measure of satisfaction based on whether a person would continue to use it or avoid it) are safe to adopt, low usage/low retention are considered 'harder to recommend', and high usage/low retention are worth reassessing if used.
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Status update, 16/01/2023 - Sam Thursfield
The tech world is busy building “AI apps” with wild claims of solving all problems. Meanwhile it’s still basically an unsolved problem to get images and text to line up nicely when making presentation slides.
I’m giving a couple of talks at FOSDEM in February so i’ve been preparing slides. I previously used Reveal.js, which has some nice layout options (like r-stretch and r-fit-text), but pretty basic Markdown support such that I ended up writing the slides in raw HTML.
A colleague turned me onto Remark.js, a simpler tool with better Markdown support and a CLI tool (Backslide), but its layout support is less developed than Reveal.js so I ended frustrated at the work necessary to lay things out neatly.
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GCC 13.0.1 Status Report (2023-01-16), Stage 4 in effect now
The GCC development branch which will become GCC 13 is now in regression and documentation fixing mode (Stage 4) until we reach zero P1 regressions and branch for the release.