just found out someone is building an independent JS-supporting terminal web browser in a memory-safe language: https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
looks promising because so far all the other independent browsers other than Firefox are stuck using C or C++, which like ... have we learned nothing?
but also there's completely unhinged stuff like https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/master/doc/localcgi.md (and I haven't thought about it enough to figure out whether "unhinged" is a compliment or not yet)
"If it's free you are the product" is up there with "you know Google once said 'don't be evil'" in the list of vapid clichés in 'critical' tech writing. Open software is free. Are users of any given open source system the product? Not really, eh? How about readers of free books and articles? Yeah, just stop repeating that. Being free isn't the problem. The business model of the entity offering the good is the problem.
I made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com
Preparing to help to work with Java to someone that uses Pop!_OS and Visual Studio Code. The Pop!_Shop offers by default Visual Studio Code as a Flatpak. The Flatpak does not seem to provide reasonable instructions to install the JDK in a Flatpak situation. I revert and install Visual Studio Code through their official website, which offers a .deb package (which in my experience is easier). The integrated package installer hangs indefinitely installing the package.
Around 2000, my university provided web hosting for students. This was static web hosting, of course. I wanted my website, and setting it up using HTML was too tedious. So I decided to create my website using PHP, run wget --mirror to scrape it, and upload it to the static web hosting service.
(I don't think that was a novel idea even back then.)
My current personal project is implemented with Django and I run with Kubernetes. This project scraps data and stores it in a PostgreSQL database.
OK, I think I have most of the YunoHost catalogue "scraped"; I have the version history of the applications on YunoHost, and the matching Git tag history for the related repos. Daily scraping should get this updated.
Next step is to set up publishing of the data for use by others, and some static website for easy browsing of this information.
Just added jj support to my package manager ( https://github.com/alexpdp7/ubpkg ).
It took me a long time to finally switch from Subversion to Git. But once I did, I never looked back. It will likely take me another very long time to switch to jj, but installing it is a first step :-p
I have some doubts about jj's governance, but I'm crossing my fingers the situation improves.
Perhaps it's time to use this last hour before dinner to fool around with making a Visidata video. I learned it has interesting JSON support recently.
Small milestone of https://github.com/alexpdp7/selfhostwatch ; I have a deployment on my Kubernetes test host that scrapes daily the versions of YunoHost packages. The idea is to make it easy for people to assess how well updated systems like YunoHost are.
(For example, if you want to self-host Nextcloud, you could visit selfhostwatch, search for Nextcloud and view a timeline of updates across different self-hosting solutions.)
@zephyrfalcon I'm lately thinking that it's about making self-hosting easier. There's a ton of OSS feed readers, and there's stuff like YunoHost (and many others), but I feel nowadays it's harder for some reason for regular people to self-host. Many years ago I knew a lot of people who got shared hosting and ran Wordpress.
Nowadays, it feels that self-hosting your own blog for normal people is a fractal of complexity.