I've been thinking about restarting work on #Tapir. Development stopped because I hit a wall with the database system. Writing Tapir in #Deno was a long sequence of yak-shaving without much payoff; most of my dev time was spent implementing JSON-LD, Web Signatures, and a database layer that should have been a library if Deno had better Node compatibility at the time.
It's been a while, and the Deno ecosystem has improved a lot. Drizzle looks promising as an ORM layer (better than my hacked-together one), and more Fediverse projects in Deno are popping up (#Fedify looks really cool!). But I'm rethinking Deno.
There were 3 things that drew me to Deno initially:
Ease of install (just run the app from a URL)
Cloud platforms (Deno Deploy w/ Deno KV)
JavaScript (I know the language, and it has a big ecosystem)
@fedops
Haha! When people use language like that, they instantly rise to the top of the list of alternatives :)
Along those lines, I also have a fondness for 'highly opinionated' software.
@kzimmermann
Thanks for the snac2 link/reference btw 👍
I always found it weird that a decentralized microblogging platform was so centralized and the software so (insanely imo) heavy.
Self-hosting should be the norm and snac2 seems to actually make that doable :)
@kzimmermann aaaa I LOVE TAPIRS my wife was showing me something and I instantly said "a tapir"! and she was like, "you really noticed that was a tapir THAT fast?" and I said yes. I love tapirs. 🤣 Always have. From a kid, and they made this amazing toy of one. Ever heard of Battle Beasts? The Japanese name for them is "dream eater" and I only learned this because I was into this toyline 🤣🤣
We are involved in many open source and open data activities, as we want to support the community. These are projects that we use every day or used to rely on
Happy #WorldTapirDay! These paintings of an adult & juvenile Malayan #Tapir (Tapirus indicus) are 2 of the 477 watercolors of flora & fauna by Chinese artists commissioned by William Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca from 1803-18, now in the National Museum of Singapore:
Long ago, I was checking on a pregnant Malayan #tapir who was due. She had given birth, but hadn't ripped open the placenta & the baby wasn't moving. I moved mum away & found the placenta was cold, which is not good. I ripped the placenta open and massaged her lungs to get her to start breathing, which I was overjoyed to see worked. The intern with me was crying nonstop & it was all I could do not to join her when I introduced mum back in with her. My life is awesome sometimes. #animals