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randahl, 3 months ago to random

Russians staying in Sri Lanka have showed their gratitude by creating a number of “whites only" night clubs, denying access to local Sri Lankans. So Sri Lankan authorities now decided to help the racists by telling all 288,000 Russians in Sri Lanka to take the next flight back to good old Moscow, where the average skin color is more to their liking.

Perfect! 😘👌

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-russia-tourist-visa-ukraine-war-b2502986.html#

maxd, 1 month ago to random

I had an opportunity to build a simple synthesizer and a sequencer running in the browser in under half an hour, live on stage with Embedded Swift in VS Code (almost) from scratch at #WasmIO 2024, and now a recording is available!
Huge amount of effort was put into making the talk happen, including the underlying work to support Wasm in Swift toolchain and libraries that started years ago. I'm very grateful to everyone who participated 🙏

https://youtu.be/6yxPavqB144

maxd, 8 months ago to linux

Are you interested in cross-compiling your #SwiftLang apps to #Linux? We've got some great news for you! https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-sdk-generator/67409

maxd, 3 months ago to random

Before obituaries for Navalny start rolling in the Western media, here's a necessary reminder that he incited violence against Muslims, called immigrants "cockroaches", and of course supported the occupation of Crimea.
Frustrating how the inconvenient fact that he was a far-right activist is swept under the rug and almost never mentioned enough by that same media.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/amnesty-international-employee-sacked-alexei-navalny

maxd, 10 months ago to random

"Swift SDKs for Cross-Compilation" proposal was accepted 🥳

Huge thank you to everyone who contributed, provided feedback, and helped testing the implementation! https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0387-swift-sdks-for-cross-compilation/66399

maxd, 5 months ago to random

This year my mom invited her friends to live in our flat in western Ukraine, after they escaped from russian occupation of Enerhodar, the town by Europe's largest nuclear plant. One in the couple, Victor, was diabetic, his condition exacerbated under occupation with lack of medical supplies and russians wreaking havoc in the city. The couple escaped in their car last year, but Victor had his leg amputated due to complications. My mom just told me he never fully recovered and died today.

maxd, 4 months ago to webassembly

The optimization work @katei is doing on WasmKit is nothing short of amazing 🤩 AFAIU this #Wasm interpreter written in Swift is ~15x faster in common use cases, when compared to the state it was before Yuta started working on it, and now it's 100% compliant with the WebAssembly 1.0 spec and a few major accepted proposals.
Teaches a lot about the benefits of knowing underlying hardware well. Sometimes worth taking into account cache locality and register layout after all https://github.com/swiftwasm/WasmKit/pull/70

maxd, 3 months ago to webassembly

Excited to announce an important milestone for #WASI and #WebAssembly testing on #SwiftLang CI! More details available on Swift Forums: https://forums.swift.org/t/stdlib-and-runtime-tests-for-wasm-wasi-now-available-on-swift-ci/70385

maxd, 3 months ago to retrogaming

This new Dune 2 may be good (I haven't watched it yet), but it's certainly a good reminder that original Dune 2 from 1992 was a notable breakthrough.
#retrogaming

maxd, 4 months ago to random

Ever wanted to visualize products/targets graph of your Swift package? With next main development snapshots of Swift you can with swift package describe --type mermaid option. It produces text representation of such graph that can be pasted into Markdown documents and rendered as vector graphics either on GitHub or in IDEs that have corresponding Markdown preview extensions.

Disclaimer: this is not super useful for complex graphs, but could be useful for smaller ones
https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/7289

maxd, 30 days ago to random Ukrainian

#lichensubscribe

maxd, 13 days ago to random

There's a new #SwiftLang pitch authored by @fbusch that I had an opportunity to contribute to. If graduates to a proposal and is implemented as envisioned, it could become one of the most impactful changes in how one writes package manifests for #SwiftPM https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-package-traits/72191

maxd, 1 month ago to random

Preach: "Defeat is good thing to happen to an empire. Decolonisation happened because [these empires] lost wars. [...] Russia is not exceptional or mythical. Empires eventually overreach and they lose wars". https://mastodon.social/

finestructure, 1 month ago to random

Folks who squash their #git merges, I’m curious why you are making that trade-off. I’m guessing the pro argument is a cleaner merge graph?

The big argument against it for me is that you lose granularity for git bisect. I've often been able to narrow down breakage (sometimes long past the merge) due to individual commits in the merge. If I'd merged in a giant blob all I'd have had to go by is that giant blob. (1/2)

pervognsen, 1 month ago to random

Not sure how widely known it is that Cloudflare has a free tier for Pages. There's different options for how to upload static assets but the easiest is to just point it to a branch of a GitHub or GitLab repo and it will auto-pull and deploy when there are changes to it.

AndriiKuznietsov75, 2 months ago to Java Ukrainian

Як працюють компіляція та виконання коду👇
🔸Компілювані мови (#C, C++, #Go)
Вихідний код перетворюється компілятором на машинний. Машинний код виконується безпосередньо процесором.
🔸Байт-код (#Java, C#)
Вихідний код компілюється у байт-код, а потім JVM виконує програму. Іноді JIT-компілятор компілює вихідний код у машинний, щоб прискорити виконання.
🔸Інтерпретовані мови (#Python, #JS, #Ruby)
Тут для виконання програми не потрібен машинний код, натомість програму рядково виконають інтерпретатори.

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pervognsen, 1 month ago to random

Before Baba Is You there was Environmental Station Alpha by the same developer. The game doesn't seem widely known, but it is one of my surprise favs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPsJk-c3bQ

icanzilb, 1 month ago to random

Visiting my mom and digging up some ancient artifacts she's been holding on to through the ages. My first collab with Ray Wenderlich & team

cjwirth, 1 month ago to random

I have done very little research — what’s the best NAS to get?

Looking basically for something to replace iCloud, so would be great to have access to the files from my phone. Would be nice if I could use rclone to sync with some online services too.

maxd, 13 days ago to random

Speaking of disaster shelters, the Silo TV show is good, has strong Fallout + Severance vibes. Some moments initially felt like filler padding, but IMO paid out in the end.

While the Fallout show is packed with action and character development, this one is a slow burn in a few episodes and has some unexpected celebration of engineering that I haven't seen in media before.

Also, I haven't read the book, but I suspect some of that could be dictated by a desire to stay close to source material?