Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 28, 2023

• How to make Data Visualizations THAT GO VIRAL (with ggplot2 in R)

  Quit “storytelling with data”. There’s a reason your data visualizations aren’t working. Hear me out.

• How to use Tailwind CSS in your Go programs

  When I work on some of my smaller projects, I end up hitting a point where I need more than minimal CSS configuration. I don't want to totally change my development flow to bring in a bunch of complicated toolkits or totally rewrite my frontend in React or something, I just want to make things not look like garbage. Working with CSS by itself can be annoying.

• Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly

  Good morning Berlin! How're you doing this fine morning? I'm Xe and today I'm gonna talk about something that I'm really excited about:

  WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a compiler target for an imaginary CPU that your phones, tablets, laptops, gaming towers and even watches can run. It's intended to be a level below JavaScript to allow us to ship code in maintainable languages. Today I'm gonna be talking about fun ways you can take advantage of WebAssembly, but first we need to talk about the other main part of this subject: [...]

GNOME

• Akshay Warrier: GSoC 2023 Final Project Report

  Project Title

  Make GNOME Platform demos and create offline documentation viewer for Workbench

  Mentors

  Sonny Piers, Andy Holmes

  About The Project

  Workbench is an application that lets you experiment and tinker with GNOME technologies. It’s aimed at beginners who want to get into GTK development or developers who want to prototype a feature for their apps.

• Felipe Borges: An update on GNOME Settings

  There’s no question that GNOME Settings is important to the overall GNOME experience and I feel flattered to share the responsibility of being one of its maintainers. I have been involved with Settings for almost a decade now but only in the last few months I have  started to wear the general maintainer hat “officially”.

Rust

• Dave Patrick Caberto: GSoC 2023: Rust and GTK 4 Bustle Rewrite (Final Overview)

  Over the summer, I worked on rewriting Bustle in Rust and GTK 4 as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023 program. This post is an overview of the work done and the future plans for the project.

• From tui-rs to Ratatui: 6 Months of Cooking Up Rust TUIs

  Let's take a look at what is new in the new version of "Ratatui" and how it became the successor of tui-rs.