Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 12

I've heard from some, elected officials especially, that Cop City is going to be built, so there's no reason to keep putting up a fight.

Let me remind you: the Atlanta Police Foundation said Cop City would open in 2023. But here we are, and construction hasn't even started.

Published Haskell Stylist 2.5.0.1 adding compatibility with Text v2!

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stylist

@lightweight @mako I get the impression this happens especially often when it helps proprietary corporations reach a broader audience...

Free software isn't always the best about this, but where we do focus on internationalization or accessibility we often excel!

What a great talk by @mako describing how #FOSS' brilliance is sometimes co-opted by the proprietary world where they succeed creating a (self-interested) market for things that communities do gratis out of kindness & trust... https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=vBknF2yUZZ8

@mcc I'd compile QuickJS to WASM & use that!

That's got a reasonable codesize...

@mcc also this very real book might just say how to write one yourself

I think what I love most about it, though, is that the content of the presentation is entirely up to the speaker - so if you turn up to LambdaConf and give a presentation on how the Code of Professionalism is just a dogshit idea rather than actually talking about anything to do with structured programming, and the organisers are not only still obliged to pay you, they're also forbidden from saying anything bad about you afterwards

@mcc I wonder if something like this will run on .NET WASM https://github.com/sebastienros/jint

Something I've started doing to wind down from CatTrap dev: Playing with how I might express the same thing in a dedicated DSL.

It's relaxing not having to consider where the data's coming from... And satisfies a curiosity of mine!

I have no idea why I go weeks without posting anything to my gemlog and then have flurry of ideas and make multiple posts in a span of days.

@teleclimber @HerraBRE I didn't give any specific dates, but I drew up a rough roadmap. To which I attached rough pricepoints.

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"Based on the survey and the call today, we agreed to move Focus Appearance to AAA."

#WCAG #a11y #WebStandards
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2023JanMar/0309.html

Moving Focus Appearance to AAA is the worst outcome. At least define very broad categories of what visible means and slide them in at AA. “A part of the focused component must have a 3:1 contrast compared to the unfocused component.” Urgh. So much wasted time in the community for an ineffective rule.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2023JanMar/0309.html

I just discovered a neat detail on GitHub and beta.flathub.org: the favicon changes depending on the preferred style. They will use a white icon when using the dark style preference, and black icon when using the light style preference

I know it's a small detail but I'm really impressed by the attention to details

Yesterday, I was going on about how I wanted this round-about way of having quick access to definitions without scrolling, sort of like an IDE.

Talking about it gave me the motivation to stop procrastinating on this and just implement the darn thing. Left is now able to locate symbol definitions and its methods and members, and draw them inline.

Currently I'm in a conversation about selecting a piece of jargon to use in #Haphaestus dev...

Is it a "page", "screenful", or "fragment"? All of these terms have their drawbacks, often conflicting with other terms we're using.

"Screenful" not so much, but it'll also be tempting to use it for columns too...

* Wrapper around it's power routines.
* Wrappers around addition/subtraction routines adding memory management with own fastpaths
* The "Strong Lucas Primality Check" with several fastpaths (including considering the Jacobi test) & a division loop
* A more sophisticated wrapper around GMP random adding memory management & MPN normalization
* Wrappers around MPN squareroot routines adding memory management & own fastpaths
* size-in-base wrapper
* Sophisticated bitwise XOR normalization

2/2 today

@nonlinear @ballingt Thanks!

Getting back to my GNU Multiprecision studies, the next I had on my queue is MPZ, which might take a couple days to cover...

The sublibrary around this numeric datastructure includes:

* Wrappers around GMP random adding MPN normalization.
* Division by power-of-two with reallocation & MPN normalization.
* Wrappers around MPN division routines adding memory management & normalization, with it's own fastpath.
* Swap fields of 2 MPZ structures.
* Test whether a given bit in the array is set.

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Three ways to structure utility libraries with vanilla JS - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/three-ways-to-structure-utility-libraries-with-vanilla-js/