Intro

Hello everybody. This is episode 17 of FalseTrue Digest.

I’ve participated in EuRuKo 2024, for those who don’t know this is oldest and biggest Ruby conference since 2003. (https://euruko.org/).

I’ve already wrote a little review note here https://falsetrue.io/share/note/2024/09/15/euruko2024-review/

Photography by Nidal Šaljić.

Stories

• Cloudflare breaking SVGs - CloudFlare modifing SVG tags makes image visible changed.
• The Age of Software Artisans - Maybe AI won’t replace all developers, maybe it’s just a new FORTRAN.
• What 10,000 Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don’t Ship Fast
• Elite 40th AnniversaryOut - Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release
• Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail (ALREADY FIXED)
• The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains
• Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript.
• uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store

Development

• Monolith First - This pattern has led many of my colleagues to argue that you shouldn’t start a new project with microservices, even if you’re sure your application will be big enough to make it worthwhile. .
• Dune Shell - Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp.
• Openpilot – Operating system for robotics. 275 supported cars

Hard core

• A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
• Linux/4004 - Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
• Compiling to Assembly from Scratch - book about compiling Assembly from scratch, refer to Red Dragon Book.
• Trachtenberg System of Mental Calculation - literally as it said method to calcalte complex math in mind
• Old computing books
• sndkit is a sonic toolkit for computer music composition
• Balance of Power - In 1966, Chris Crawford, who was then sixteen, was introduced to Avalon Hill style wargames by a school friend. Crawford enjoyed the genre of games, but it wasn’t a primary interest of his.
• Geometric Search Trees

Emacs

• Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available
• Combining Mastodon timelines using mastodon.el
• yap - Your Assistant for Prompting LLMs

News

• FreeBSD 13.4R
• macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac
• The 6.11 kernel has been released

That’s it for this episode. Comment and share.