There's a yearly programming contest called Advent of Code (AoC). If you haven't heard about it, I'd recommend reading betaveros's post explaining what makes it unique. This was my third attempt at AoC, previously trying it in 2019 (made it to day 5) and 2021 (day 6). This year I…
The majority of posts on Mastodon right now are about how to get started, discussions about various features or making fun of the dumpster fire that is the birdsite. This is mostly unavoidable as new people sign up, but I've tried to keep using Mastodon as an actual social network…
My #Debian firmware GR vote is 6437215. In order of preference: Amend the Social Contract to allow for non-free firmware in installers. Have a installer w/ non-free firmware next to the fully free one. None of the above Have only a non-free installer OR status quo, the installer w/ non-free…
$ rpm-ostree override remove firefox$ flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefoxThe future is here!
The next #Rocket release candidate is out: https://rocket.rs/v0.5-rc/news/2022-05-09-version-0.5-rc.2/Updated all of my projects in ~40 minutes, best part of #Rust is that if it compiles, it'll just work!
Who knew there were other ways to debug software??
Trying Advent of Code 2021, we'll see how long I go until I get bored or find them too difficult.https://gitlab.com/legoktm/advent-of-code-2021 has my answers from the first 3 days so far.
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cargo-hack is the coolest #Rust testing tool I've learned about so far:
Python 3.10 is a fantastic trap for everyone who uses YAML/Toml to configure CI, because writing an unquoted 3.10 will happily be normalized to 3.1.
It was surprisingly simple to set up cross-building for #Windows binaries on my #Rust projects in CI: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/rust-ci-pipeline/-/commit/21c61d0412e6636c110fbd0461908c93ff5eda7cAnd the one place I was using Unix-specific code has been caught at compile time \o/Whenever I make new releases, Windows binaries will be uploaded by CI, but in the meantime here's my…
New project: prometheus-airnow-exporter scrapes air quality info for your zip code from AirNow.gov's APIhttps://lib.rs/crates/prometheus-airnow-exporterThrew it together pretty quickly as a PoC to see if I could set up alerting when the air gets bad.#airnow #prometheus #californiaproblems
My #DebConf21 shirt came, just in time!And a beautiful #Debian pin too :)
uh, #airsonic is abandoned/obsolete now :(https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic/commit/5ccca059d5cfe3dd19734c27861b434ea21b43d8time to look into moving to airsonic-advanced, which I hope will be a mostly drop-in replacementhttps://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced
I received USD$2.15 from the Google Plus Profile Litigation class action settlement....yay.