Notices by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft

package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}

@nixCraft

Turbo Pascal was the 3rd programming language I learned.

@pixelfed @dansup

Did Pixelfed post-scheduling make it into the v0.11.2 (and later) release of Pixelfed?

Or was the feature deferred to a later future release?

(A friend of mine, who recently started using Pixelfed, was asking about it. And I cannot seem to find it.)

A friend sent this.

He added the comment:

“And they call it "Bard policy" and not "privacy policy" anymore.”

Google renamed the Google Bard "Privacy Policy" to "Bard Policy". Assumingly because it violates the user's privacy.

#Google #GoogleBard #Privacy

@itsfoss

I started using Linux in 1996.

I was using Solaris & IRIX before that.

The #HTTP protocol's "101 Switching Protocols" response is severely underused.

(And no, this is not a comment about WebSockets.)

3/

"Yes", there is WebDAV — but WebDAV is no more HTTP than AtomPub is.

And also, WebDAV does a mediocre job of trying to shoehorn directories into HTTP.

2/

For example, there is no HTTP method to list the contents of a directory.

Also, there is no HTTP method to pull all the contents of a directory (as a single operation).

There are no recursive HTTP methods for directories.

Etc.

1/

The #WorldWideWeb dominated #Internet would have been a different place if #HTTP had support for directories.

Because except for an atavism on how relative URIs resolve against a base URI —

HTTP does not support directories.

"Jim Clarke and Marc Andreessen approached me [John Ousterhout, the creator of the Tcl programming language] about the possibility of my joining Netscape as a founder, but I eventually decided against it (they hadn't yet decided to do Web stuff when I talked with them). […] If I had gone to Netscape, I think there's a good chance that Tcl would have become the browser language instead of JavaScript"

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

#tcl #javascript #programming #netscape #worldWideWeb

"I think the most widely used programming languages have come not from the programming language research committee, but rather from people who build systems and wanted a language to help themselves. PL researchers tend to create languages that are useful for PL researchers: they […] aren't usually useful for real systems. Systems people create languages that are useful for systems builders, so they get widely adopted"
⸺ John Ousterhout

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

#programmingLanguages #programming

"Tcl had its heyday in the 1990's, due in large part to the power of the Tk toolkit and the awfulness of the other X Window GUI toolkits; Tcl/Tk was the easiest and most powerful way to create GUI apps. Unfortunately, Tcl didn't make the jump to the Web, and most of the applications for which people would have used Tcl in the 1990s became Web applications."

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

#tcl #tk #programming

For example, how about a replacement for URLs, URIs, etc that is based on Unicode UTF-8 rather than ASCII.

(UT8RL?)

I wish the Internet protocol community would move from ASCII to UTF-8.

That way, the Internet protocols that were meant to be human-legible and programmer-legible could go back to being human-legible and programmer-legible.

All this encoding Unicode and UTF-8 into ASCII (ex: percent-encoding) detracts these Internet protocols from being human-legible and programmer-legible.