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Status update, May 2020
Hello, future readers! I am writing to you from one day in the past. I finished my plans for today early and thought I’d get a head start on writing the status updates for tomorrow, or rather, for today. From your reference frame, that is.
Let’s start with Wayland. First, as you might have heard, The Wayland Protocol is now free for anyone to read, and has been relicensed as CC-BY-SA. Enjoy! It’s still not quite done, but most of it’s there. In development news, wlroots continues to enjoy incremental improvements, and is being refined further and further towards a perfect citizen of the ecosystem in which it...
We are complicit in our employer's deeds
Tim Bray’s excellent “Bye Amazon” post inspired me to take this article off of my backlog, where it has been sitting for a few weeks. I applaud Tim for stepping down from a company that has demonstrated itself incompatible with his sense of right and wrong, and I want to take a moment to remind you that the rest of us in the tech industry have the same opportunity — no, the same obligation as Tim did.
As software engineers, we enjoy high salaries and extremely good job security. A good software engineer with only a couple of years of experience under their belt can expect to have...
How to store data forever
As someone who has been often maligned by the disappearance of my data for various reasons — companies going under, hard drive failure, etc — and as someone who is responsible for the safekeeping of other people’s data, I’ve put a lot of thought into solutions for long-term data retention.
There are two kinds of long-term storage, with different concerns: cold storage and hot storage. The former is like a hard drive in your safe — it stores your data, but you’re not actively using it or putting wear on the storage medium. By contrast, hot storage is storage which is available immediately and undergoing frequent reads and...
The Making Of Stunt Island
How Stunt Island from IBM PC was programmed back in 1992!
Configuring aerc for git via email
I use aerc as my email client (naturally — I wrote it, after all), and I use git send-email to receive patches to many of my projects. I designed aerc specifically to be productive for this workflow, but there are a few extra things that I use in my personal aerc configuration that I thought were worth sharing briefly. This blog post will be boring and clerical, feel free to skip it unless it’s something you’re interested in.
When I want to review a patch, I first tell aerc to :cd sources/<that project>, then I open up the patch and give it a read. If it needs...