julien⚒️⚒️ @julienxx@fedi.9til.de

schnek - a new game for Plan9 https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/47890aa2-444a-430a-9252-3b2d4e24e91c

Just read a post asking Eugen to resign from developing Mastodon and I really have to ask: what are you folks smoking?

It’s his project. It’s open source. Fork it if you want to. But what kind of mind-blowing sense of entitlement drives you to think you can tell someone they should stop working on something they’ve built?

*smh*

9FRONT “COMMUNITY VS INFRASTRUCTURE” RELEASED

This is the first official release after the migration from mercurial distributed version control system to ori’s git9.

Mercurial and Python have been removed from the distribution, but can still be installed from the snakeoil repository.

OTHER CHANGES:

archacpi: make *acpi=1 the default

virtio: add non-legacy virtio 1.0 drivers for disk and ethernet

ircrc: freenode -> oftc

vt: allow scrolling with the mouse.

AND MORE

http://9front.org/releases/2021/07/18/0/

This is a neat notebook page on music trackers.

Sometimes I miss the days back in the 90s when I would screw around with harvesting all the samples from my favorite Amiga mods and hacking together my own tunes with a MIDI Casiotone keyboard as input.

Weirdly open and tinkery way to make music, if you liked a thing in a song just view source and figure out how they did it.

http://notebook.zoeblade.com/Tracker.html

This 5 line #awk program prints #gemini documents with syntax highlighting and numbered links.

https://git.sr.ht/~chambln/gmi/tree/ba42a734/item/contrib/gemtext.awk

Linus Torvalds drops the mic on antivaxxers on the Linux kernel mailing list.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com/

Finally got around to writing down some audio programming tips for the musically inclined trying to learn, based on my own personal experiences and struggles learning how to do it myself: https://pbat.ch/wiki/audio_programming_recipe/