Louis

Software developer #Go #CommonLisp #JS #SQL. #LispWorks user. Soft spots for #Emacs #SmallWeb. Recently becoming #OpenBSD enthusiast.

Author of the Tuner app for Linux.

Other hobbies: #Running #FireFighter #StarTrek

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2024-07-04 20:04:06

Just built Ladybird browser on Linux and Mac/arm a few hours ago. It‘s already at awesome-level. Still rough edges and crashes here and there, but still immensely useful. A bright beacon in the darkness of a world running essentially on a single browser engine. Give it a try, if you can.
#ladybird

2024-05-28 17:43:09

The #Apple trap: "You have used 2048GB in your 2TB iCloud Family plan. Please upgrade to the 6TB plan for only $35/month so your wife and kids can store even more useless selfie-videos." 🍎 😠

2024-05-24 13:18:50

Who runs "Open-source" Chromium? And guess who funds Igalia, which takes 2nd place?
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/496/234/666/038/349/original/5df409faf66dd86a.png

2024-05-24 12:57:45

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@npub1tx6…rtam This one on a server, which is also doing media delivery for our Mastodon instance via `varnishd` and serving a few websites via `relayd`/`httpd`.

2024-05-24 12:53:44

OMG, I love #OpenBSD. Never seen a major update on a [Li|U]n[u|i]x OS going through so smooth. And the `sysmerge` command that walks you through every config file change and let's you diff/merge/install them, is the perfect icing on the cake. 🍰

2024-05-24 12:49:01

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@npub13n4…3h2h Enjoy this X-less success made possible by the great people on the Fediverse! :openbsd: We love you.

2024-04-05 09:44:22

TGIF to all you fine folks in the Fediverse and our community. Enjoy the weekend! 💮

2024-04-02 10:45:07

A piece of history just arrived 😀 #CommonLisp
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/201/217/222/008/552/original/553deee9ab36dfc7.jpeg

2024-03-13 19:36:19

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@npub1u2r…4urs Very good idea! I'll try to work on it on the coming weekend 🙂

2024-03-13 19:23:35

Most of the today regulated traffic at major junctions - further training for the fire department. It was good to get away from the screen for a while.
#firefighter
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/090/003/814/373/123/original/f2447aa04c63ba65.mp4

2024-03-12 12:03:13

For those of you into cooking and recipe sharing, I just found the Gopherspace Cookbook with 695 recipes!
https://gopher.emacs.ch/search?q=cookbook&source=all
(see 1st result)
Incredible source of inspiration 🧑‍🍳
#cooking #gopher

2024-03-09 16:43:44

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@npub1t36…zm47 Yes, if you don't care for support of older browsers. Glitch introduced modern ES syntax two weeks ago and many niche browsers don't work anymore.

2024-02-08 21:47:40

Ran Linux Mint for a week, which is always my choice no. 1. However, it was painfully slow, some apps took 20 seconds to start. Video streaming was lagging and I could literally see the cursor trying to catch up with my typing. Not sure what was wrong, couldn't continue. And that with a Thinkpad X1, 4 cores and 16 GB of RAM.
Now jumped to PopOS and boy, does it make a difference. Did anyone have a similar experience?
#linuxmint #PopOS

2024-01-18 16:29:55

#librewolf is so good, it's now my default browser. Good bye, #Firefox.
https://librewolf.net/

2023-11-14 12:35:02

Emacs: print-buffer
VSCode: ... uhm, what is a printer?
#Emacs #vscode

2023-11-06 18:05:33

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@npub1l0f…acen Sadly true. People are so used/unaware of being digitally abused, that they literally pay to remove an aritifical 140 (sic!) character limit on X.
Or pay for Netflix - with ads.
Or soon pay for Facebook, the mother of all privacy violations.
Who is to blame? The educational system that is forcing Chromebooks, WhatsApp, Gmail and Office 365 onto their students.

2023-11-06 15:27:10

#Google, #Meta, #Apple, #Microsoft...
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/2VCSO1mqWPALcPbEQwgSd3?si=0147f8e83e0c40f0

2023-11-06 11:39:01

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@npub1l0f…acen Too bad. No warranty? What brand? Perhaps drop them email and ask for goodwill?

2023-10-09 20:39:26

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@npub18k5…029x I also switched to eglot and settled with flymake for the best experience. Flycheck didn't work for me at all.

2023-10-05 14:34:10

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@npub1s2k…8cla That would be one way, but there is also Tailscale Funnel:
https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/

2023-10-02 10:38:35

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@npub1k0h…cz0d @npub19y6…zc37 @npub1vu3…fyyf @npub1myf…r07t @npub1xwn…3hd7 @npub159e…6tdu @npub1l0k…pgzm @npub1dsy…dx5e Alter, alle Achtung! Gratuliere Dir zu deinem Marathon. 🚀

2023-09-23 20:09:49

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@npub19y8…wxgj My secret is: I use Org-mode only for
Denote (note taking)
Daily TODO management
Documents which I want to convert to PDF/HTML later
Meaning: only the bare minimum.
For other things like READMEs etc. I prefer Markdown mode, since it is the most widely supported format for non-Emacs users.

2023-09-22 12:05:36

Kagi.com, the premium, secure, ad-free and privacy-friendly search engine re-introduces unlimited searches in their Pro plan.
https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10
Just one more reason to extend my yearly subscription to support the excellent devs of Kagi.com.
#Kagi #Kagisearch

2023-09-20 08:53:56

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@npub1hrk…3nzn Not foreign, but that doesn't mean that I have to agree with how capitalism chose to handle this issue.

2023-09-20 08:08:01

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@npub1pt4…8xng Can you move servers to a different locations or is the location if the owner relevant?

2023-09-15 22:26:57

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@npub1fdc…82j5 Depends, do you have a good job offer where you can use it?

2023-09-14 15:00:41

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@npub1qxd…sqjl Do add a bit more to this interesting discussion, there is also another dimension, especially in bigger Free software projects (looking at you, #GNU) - and especially in the C world.
These projects are often made up of a community of self-proclaimed "elite hackers". They pretend to be open, but they don't want contributions. They make it so hard to contribute, that it is almost impossible to "get in". Look at the FSF/GNU, they really suffer from that.
And when you dare to propose an idea and send a patch, you risk of being publicily ridiculed at best, or at least ignored. Or someone is screaming at you: "shut up".
I gave up on trying to contribute to bigger projects very fast. I'm not an "elite hacker". Running this instance is my way of contributing in a way, no GNU hacker can tell me how inferior my contribution is.

2023-09-13 15:03:43

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@npub1hcf…zs4y Yes, because there is nothing to bash about Emacs 🙂

2023-09-01 07:36:46

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@npub1j8u…7v0u Just discovered that #FerretDB now also has support for #SQLite as backend. That's a game-changer - since Postgres was the reason I would not have considered FerretDB.

2023-08-30 11:31:36

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@npub1js9…ks28 To correct my previous post, after some more study, it is actually possible to commit only part of the changes in a file, using:
fossil stash snapshot
Delete the unwanted changes
fossil commit
fossil stash pop
Also, Fossil obviously has a fossil git export command which even support automatic sync after new commits.
That could make Fossil a potential candidate. 🙂

2023-08-29 20:24:18

Anyone else have problems with Eglot and crashing Go LSP server since #Emacs 29.1?

2023-08-26 20:41:54

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@npub14d0…c5xl I love LispWorks and CAPI! Always nice to hear from other LispWorks users. Are you running the Pro edition? Which OS platform are you working on?
Regarding libraries: I prefer dexador and com.inuoe.jzon at the moment.

2023-08-22 07:15:36

@npub1fdc…82j5 Btw. since you are runnnig the @npub10y9…4ja9 account now, too, can you recommend a good book for the latest version of #tcl ?

2023-08-21 12:10:20

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@brokenix You must use the HTML mode:
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/110/927/531/774/000/777/original/078a56ea0e7bf230.png
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/110/927/531/792/535/681/original/a494d5ec5d9b0210.png

2023-08-16 13:14:43

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@npub1zln…u9mv Wow, I've never even heard of justfiles, but assume that it is this project:
https://github.com/casey/just
It looks great! I was always a little fearful using Make for my relatively simple use cases bust just looks just right for me! 🚀

2023-08-16 11:31:15

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@npub1s2k…8cla Fastmail @npub1xth…49e7

2023-08-15 14:06:30

Now running Mastodon 4.2.0-beta1. Our Status Report:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/01rsaJ7RIfvGfnfkHXPh5Y?si=53d94f8365c7454b
#strangenewworlds

2023-08-15 09:18:41

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Hm, too bad. They save a lot not haying to pay for office space, desk, power, water, cleaning etc. for your seat because you are working from home.
You may want to negotiate with your boss 🙂

2023-08-14 08:42:28

Just got a text message from an unknown number:
Hello
We have a shipment for you and would like to ask you if you are at home today for delivery? If you wish to deposit your shipment, we ask you to confirm this with the shipment number via text message.
E.g. I hereby confirm that the shipment will be deposited in my mailbox or in front of the door.
With kind regards
2LCH8352+48000001
Sure. 🤣

2023-08-11 13:15:29

When you spend hours investigating an issue on a library, and creating GitHub issues with all the information you have and the only response is from someone complaining about the formatting of your example code ... 👊
... that's when I'm reminded that stepping into #CommonLisp programming is not only a great learning exercise, but also an exercise in great restraint.

2023-08-10 13:24:07

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@npub1zlw…zspj Welcome to the "New Normal" where soon corporate-greed-AI will generate vaccines that can kill any virus by killing the patient 🙂

2023-08-08 09:41:12

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@npub17w4…6kxf If you are not very familiar with Lisp, Racket is a good turn-key solution for the first steps. It's a Scheme decendant and has a very comprehensive and well done documentation (if not the best). Also the Racket IDE lowers the entry-barrier significantly.
When the parentheses grow on you, you might want to have a look at Common Lisp, which is a much bigger language than Scheme, has a very rich history and a very mature ecosystem of libraries. It is well suited for high-performance applications, which is a weak area of Racket.
Anyway, you are on the right instance to share your journey! 🙂

2023-08-07 10:55:21

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@npub1vvc…elhe Have you tried to use the Hash index option of PG for the same effect?
CREATE INDEX name ON table USING HASH (column);

2023-08-07 10:39:57

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@npub179t…alcr @npub1dtw…85ra I'm using SMTP2GO for many years for all my projects. They offer SMTP port and sending via API and have a free tier available.

2023-08-07 09:50:50

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@npub1dtw…85ra That's huge. Thanks to everyone involved, especially @npub179t…alcr !
Now I feel tempted to publish my CL code.

2023-08-07 09:21:46

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@npub1dtw…85ra Wait, you waited 9 months after your account creating to actually move? 🙂 Anyway, welcome to emacs.ch! 🚀

2023-08-06 11:26:10

Found a new video series on building a tiny HTTP library in Common Lisp from
Philip Bohun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNOdVxA3DE
He is using #SBCL and #Emacs.
#CommonLisp

2023-08-05 23:28:40

Why is an uninterned symbol used for IN-PACKAGE and not a keyword or a quoted symbol?
(in-package #:my-package) vs
(in-package :my-package) vs
(in-package 'my-package) ?
In what other cases would I use an uninterned symbol instead of a keyword symbol?
#CommonLisp

2023-08-05 18:37:27

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@npub19p5…w0v0 @npub1hyk…3p33 That sounds like a dystopia from the far future but sadly in the US it is already reality. I hope people will fight their way out of this.

2023-08-05 18:30:14

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@npub1m3q…6mnt Wow, I want to buy it right now! What brand is it? 🙂

2023-08-05 16:04:32

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@npub1v5r…as27 I only ever use one: !w

2023-08-05 15:43:27

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@npub1s87…hd4f He was a great person. His contributions will be felt for many decades.

2023-08-05 15:42:06

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@npub1s8j…qv29 So great to see you there and a great topic you have chosen. Have fun preparing! 🙂

2023-08-05 15:34:27

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@npub1s8j…qv29 Congrats! I'm really excited for you. Are you allowed to day what topic you will speak about?

2023-08-05 10:35:41

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@npub1gr8…c639 Awesome photo, congratulations!

2023-08-04 21:36:12

@npub1fdc…82j5 Well I just hope you find some peace and calm. When I feel stressed or depressed I just go running and push the limits. Btw. have you tried Lyrica?

2023-08-04 20:29:07

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@npub1k7t…ykqu Great to have you here in our instance and thank you for your nice introductory post! 🚀

2023-07-18 19:48:13

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@npub1cst…f2v0 But they prompted users through the Instagram app, didn't they?
I neither have Instagram nor do I have access to Threads (EU) ...