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My wish-list for the next YAML
YAML is both universally used, and universally reviled. It has a lot of problems, but it also is so useful in solving specific tasks that it’s hard to replace. Some new kids on the block (such as TOML) have successfully taken over a portion of its market share, but it remains in force in places where those alternatives show their weaknesses.
I think it’s clear to most that YAML is in dire need of replacement, which is why many have tried. But many have also failed. So what are the key features of YAML which demonstrate its strengths, and key weaknesses that could be improved upon?
Let’s start with...
Status update, July 2021
Hallo uit Nederland! I’m writing to you from a temporary workstation in Amsterdam, pending the installation of a better one that I’ll put together after I visit a furniture store today. I’ve had to slow a few things down somewhat while I prepare for this move, and I’ll continue to be slower for some time following it, but things are moving along regardless.
One point of note is that the maintainer for aerc, Reto Brunner, has stepped down from his role. I’m looking for someone new to fill his shoes; please let me know if you are interested.
As far as the language project is concerned, there has...
Comment on Curve extraction plugin by hari haran
i could not understand anything in the paper ,i dont know how can i implement until understand it
Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?
GitHub recently announced a tool called Copilot, a tool which uses machine learning to provide code suggestions, inciting no small degree of controversy. One particular facet of the ensuing discussion piques my curiosity: what happens if the model was trained using software licensed with the GNU General Public License?
Disclaimer: I am the founder of a company which competes with GitHub.
The GPL is among a family of licenses considered “copyleft”, which are characterized by their “viral” nature. In particular, the trait common to copyleft works is the requirement that “derivative works” are required to publish their new work under the same terms as the original copyleft license. Some weak...
How does IRC's federation model compare to ActivityPub?
Today’s federated revolution is led by ActivityPub, leading to the rise of services like Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, and more. These new technologies have a particular approach to federation, which is coloring perceptions on what it actually means for a system to be federated at all. Today’s post will explain how Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a technology first introduced in the late 1980’s, does federation differently, and why.
As IRC has aged, many users today have only ever used a few networks, such as Liberachat (or Freenode, up until several weeks ago), which use a particular IRC model which does not, at first glance, appear to utilize federation. After all, everyone...
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Double clicking selects a word, and triple-clicking selects the whole...A finger client
This is a short follow-up to the io_uring finger server article posted about a month ago. In the time since, we have expanded our language with a more complete networking stack, most importantly by adding a DNS resolver. I have used these improvements to write a small client implementation of the finger protocol.
use fmt;
use io;
use net::dial;
use os;
use strings;
@init fn registersvc() void = dial::registersvc("tcp", "finger", [], 79);
@noreturn fn usage() void = fmt::fatal("Usage: {} <user>[@<host>]", os::args[0]);
export fn main() void = {
if (len(os::args) != 2) usage();
const items = strings::split(os::args[1], "@");
defer free(items);
if (len(items) == 0) usage();
const user = items[0];
const host = if (len(items) == 1) "localhost"
else...
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Status update, June 2021
Hiya! Got another status update for you. First, let me share this picture that my dad and I took on our recent astronomy trip (click for full res):
Bonus Venus:
So, what’s new? With SourceHut, there are a few neat goings-on. For one, thanks to Michael Forney putting the finishing touches on the patchset, the long-awaited NetBSD image is now available for builds.sr.ht. Also, the initial lists.sr.ht GraphQL API design is in place, and Simon Ser is working on a new and improved implementation of email discussion parsing for us to use. I’ve also redesigned the registration & onboarding flow based on a maintainer/contributor distinction, which should help people...
Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind
The MIT license contains the following text, in all uppercase no less:
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
The BSD licenses, GPL family of licenses, Apache 2.0, Mozilla Public License, and likely any other license you’d care to name, have similar clauses of their own. It’s worth taking a moment to consider the implications of this statement and what it says about the social aspects of free and open source software.
Many people who rely on free and open source software feel entitled to...