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.