I was driving the whole day, had a couple hours of sleep and woke up midnight to answer the questions for my pre-recorded talk, get the talk cancelled by faulty HDMI :)
No blame, hardware failures happens and I understand that SeaGL is primary offline event, but I would suggest to take a look at wonderfully organized EmacsConf and borrow some great parts from it (including sound checks in advance, keeping in touch with speakers before and during conference, etc).
Wow my perception of jq as like a grep for json has been changed it is so much more like an awk for json. very cool Thank you @FLOX_advocate and #seagl2023#jq#todayilearned
It's not a question of old languages being used, nor a question of old packages being used (past a certain point, anyway). More maintainers and more uploaders can help, but only to a point.
Some packages have a lot of complexity and configurations that aren't actually used. Which can create errors from those unused configurations. Maybe we don't need to add new features to everything.
Maybe we need more community members and software to engage in effective moderation.
Good morning #SeaGL2023 ! Sorry that I'm running behind a bit, but I'm still here for the first keynote from @hpdang , showcasing all of the ways that @fossasia is helping governments and other entities in Asia use more open source software, hardware, and tools, ranging all the way from electric vehicle charging, open street maps, autonomous vehicle control, to citizen science boards, open datasets, and initiatives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the like.
Jim Hall gets to time travel with us from our current era to an older (but not necessarily simpler) time at #SeaGL2023 , as we go into a console era, before those people at Xerox PARC made GUIs, back when PDPs were state-of-the-art.
We get a little bit of timeline about the various editions of UNIX, from 1st Edition on a PDP to 2nd (C compiler), 3rd (pipe support), and then beyond that as it gets adopted first by academics and then from there to commercial support of the OS as well.
7th Edition adds the Bourne shell and then things go on to the 10th edition for the academics.
1st edition doesn't have all that many commands available to it, in addition to being able to compile FORTRAN and BASIC.
Highlighted here is roff (from runoff), a program that lets someone create formatted documents through the use of commands in the file that would control formatting. 2nd edition created nroff (new runoff) to support patent application formatting)
⏳The time is almost here!!! #SeaGL2023 is happening this Friday Nov. 3rd and Saturday 4th at the University of Washington, HUB! And also online at https://seagl.org !
Come join us, either virtual or in person to learn, share and discuss topics related to free, Libre and open technology and communities!
Recorded #seagl2023 talk. Tested Guile Tree-Sitter bindings. Reviewed a few patches for #rde and #guix.
Successfully used Arei Guile IDE for interacting with Guix APIs. Even climbed a couple routes somewhere in between. It's only a fraction of what is hapenning.
And everything was done in the middle of the turkish woods. Productive enough week I would say!
Actually, I feel a little bit overwhelmed with all the things and duties, but hope it will become a little better somewhere in January.