hywan

hywan, 8 months ago to random

The case for Nushell, https://www.jntrnr.com/case-for-nushell/.

Relevant article about shells, and how Nushell pushes the boundaries further. I highly recommend reading it.

#shell #nushell

hywan, 1 month ago to keyboard

I’ve received my Dygma Defy. A new adventure is starting. Wish me luck.

https://dygma.com/pages/defy

#keyboard

hywan, 8 months ago to hiking

This is a short story of my recent hike to the Cabane du Trient (Valais, Switzerland) 2 days ago.

My first 1700m elevation gain in a single day. My first time above 3000m, to reach 3170m.

#hiking

hywan, 1 year ago to rust

I’m starting a new project to learn about linkers. It’s called ˋweld`, and it lives here https://github.com/Hywan/weld.

I do this on my free time; understand very sporadically.

This toot is a thread to show progress or to ask help.

#linker #RustLang

hywan, 6 months ago to Energy

It’s been 300km we (my wife and I) are driving our new Microlino (https://microlino-car.com/en).

It consumes 6kWh/100km. It’s roughly 0.6L/100km once converted to gas.

Fully charging it costs 3CHF, for 150km.

#energy

hywan, 6 months ago to random

OK. That’s huge. First day we are using V2L in our house. Basically we take electricity from the batteries of our electric car, and transfer it inside the batteries of our house. It works reliably, with all safety and security checks. The electric system of our self-sufficient house is officially finished!

The car has 4x more storage capacity than the house. It was part of the plan since the beginning. On shiny days we charge the house, then the car. We can reuse what we have put in the car.

hywan, 10 months ago to random

> feels like an iMessage replacement

— a happy Element X nightly user.

> I can’t go back to the old Element, even if it’s a nightly

— another happy Element X nightly user.

hywan, 10 months ago to Pixelfed

A question for @pixelfed. Why does Pixelfed use a different fediverse than Mastodon? Is it using some particular extensions? Can I use a Mastodon app to connect to Pixelfed and to browse it? Why can’t I use my Mastodon account to use Pixelfed?

#Pixelfed #mastodon #fediverse

hywan, 3 months ago to opensource

I want to start a new browser, based on @servo.

Please stop me.

#browser #OpenSource

hywan, 10 months ago to Matrix

Element X on iOS has been released on the App Store. It has exited TestFlight, it's still a beta.

https://apple.co/3r6LJHZ

It uses the Rust SDK behind the scene (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk). Bindings for Swift and Kotlin are generated by UniFFI (https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs), and it supports async fn in Rust! I'm preparing a blog post to explain our awesome stack.

Please enjoy it. It's our fastest and most polished Element client.

#matrix #element #e2ee #messaging #decentralized

hywan, 8 months ago to Matrix

This week has been pretty busy at work. Hopefully it has resulted in absolutely awesome results!

✨ Cold start up time for Element X Android has significantly improved from 3-4sec to 100-150ms for accounts with 1000, 2000 or even 4000 rooms (≈30x speed up). That’s awesome! ✨

I’ll explain tomorrow how we did that. Async Rust and immutable data types simply rock.

#matrix #client #Element #ElementX #RustLang #kotlin

hywan, 6 months ago to Futurology

Dear Fediverse,
I'm looking for a gift for my 8 yo son: A robot. Something that can be self-built, used, be repaired, if possible open source, and versatile.
Any recommendation?

#robot #OpenSource

hywan, 3 months ago to random

My wife's computer turns 10 years old in a couple of weeks.

It's a MacBook Air. Still receiving OS updates. It works like a charm.

Those machines are robust.

hywan, 3 months ago to random

I miss the Semantic Web.

hywan, 6 months ago to CSS

Tailwind CSS vs. Semantic CSS, https://nuejs.org/blog/tailwind-vs-semantic-css/.

An article about why Tailwind creates bloated, heavy documents.

> The semantic version is 8× smaller, renders faster, and is easier to modify and extend.

Please, remember that producing smaller documents is good for everyone: battery of the user’s device, server CPU, network bandwidth, electricity used to transfer and handle (parse, render…) all the data. It’s our responsibility as developers to save data and be smart, not lazy.

#css

hywan, 1 year ago to random

Time to show off and to share your best Firefox extensions! 🦊

• What are your favorite and most useful Firefox extensions? Why?
• What are your funniest and probably most useless extensions?
• What are your most weird extensions?

#firefox #extension #browser

hywan, 10 months ago to Trains

I travel at 75m below the ocean level, with a casual speed of 300km/h (!). I transport 10 million passengers per year. I connect London to Paris in 2h. My carbon footprint is 13 times lower than a flight. I am? I am?

Eurostar!

It’s an amazing human achievement. And it’s comfortable, and cheap, and damn fast.

#train #eurostar

hywan, 9 months ago to random

Why SQLite does not use Git, https://www.sqlite.org/draft/matrix/whynotgit.html.

SQLite uses Fossil. The article doesn’t compare Git to Fossil, but instead explains why Fossil is better suited to them (and it brings nice improvement ideas for Git…).

#sqlite #fossil #git #scm

hywan, 9 months ago to rust

Me: NOW, it will compile.
rustc: 36 errors. Dumbass.

#RustLang

hywan, 9 months ago to random

Time to test https://obsidian.md/. Any feedback?

#obsidian

hywan, 10 months ago to random

It’s been 5 years I’m on Mastodon. Since a couple of months, the new communities and people I meet are so much more valuable than what I could have on Twitter. Everything is better here with more people, please don’t mess with Mastodon. It’s not perfect, but it’s alright.

On the other side, Twitter is a pure mess now. I’m having a dilemma though: if I remove my account, data are lost, and Internet should not lose its data; nonetheless, I don’t want to let Twitter uses my data 🤔.

hywan, 2 months ago to rust

2024 Edition Update, https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/03/22/2024-edition-update.html.

> This is a reminder to the teams working on the 2024 Edition that implementation work should be finished by the end of May

The article lists changes of the 2024 edition, like Future and IntoFuture will be part of the prelude, RPIT lifetime capture, the gen new keyword etc. Interesting.

#RustLang

hywan, 10 months ago to rust

Aquamarine, https://github.com/mersinvald/aquamarine.

> Aquamarine is a procedural macro extension for rustdoc, that aims to improve the visual component of Rust documentation through use of the mermaid.js diagrams.

Quite neat. I’m unsure what are the benefits over providing an image (even vectorised, eg SVG), but it’s possible.

#RustLang #documentation #visualisation #graph

hywan, 5 months ago to rust

Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey, https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/18/survey-launch.html.

Your feedback is very valuable. Please, give 10mn of your time 🙂.

#RustLang

hywan, 8 months ago to random

Thinking about leaving fosstodon.org. Any recommendations for a new server with the same thematics?