This year for Google Summer of Code, I co-mentored with YuviPanda a project to build a cross-wiki watchlist that uses OAuth and runs on Tool Labs. Sitic did a fantastic job on the project, and the final result, crosswatch, is amazing.
I use it quite frequently, and aside from the cross-wiki integration, I think the killer feature is the inline diffs that you can see by clicking on an entry. I used to use Popups to kind of do that, but being able to see the diff just as MediaWiki would have shown it is really nice.
Aside from it being immensly useful, I think crosswatch is going to set the stage for future improvements to the watchlist and related features. I'm already independently implementing two of its many features in MediaWiki: ORES integration and cross-wiki notifications. I don't think it will be long until other feature requests from crosswatch are filed and implemented.
Also, new laptop sticker ^.^
twenty one pilots: Guns For Hands
Only took 9 hours 46 minutes.
I recently got a new ThinkPad T440S through work, and decided to install Fedora on it. This was a few weeks ago, so I started out with Fedora 20 (now running F21).
Overall, it's perfect. There are a few issues so far, but all of those seem to be hardware related. Mainly:
- wifi randomly drops causing the entire OS to freeze
- touchpad gets annoying while typing (I ended up disabling it)
Other than that, I absolutely love it. I'm always amazed at how fast the boot is compared to my MacBook, the SSD was totally worth it.
Walk The Moon "Aquaman"
I've recently switched from using ZNC+Textual over to Quassel. It has the same idea as a bouncer, with a "core" that runs on your server, and a "client" that you run locally. I've been using ZNC for over 2 years now, so this was a pretty big switch for me. I did it for a few reasons:
- Textual didn't really handle crappy networks well, constantly disconnecting
- Textual 5 was a paid upgrade, something I wan't too enthusastic about after already paying for it
- Textual was having issues loading past scrollback, requiring force quits and manual cache clearing
- ZNC would fall over and die when freenode netsplit.
In addition, I'm getting a second laptop soon and want to be able to use both for IRC and keep everything in sync. Quassel seems to make that feasible, as the core manages scrollback rather than individual clients being responsible.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with Quassel so far. It handles terrible network connections pretty well, and makes it extremely convenient to go back days in scrollback. The UI on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired for...Textual's was far superior. My main issue so far has been that until a message you typed has been sent, it doesn't show up in the scrollback. There are also some issues with the channel selector picking the wrong channel.
I'm slightly concerned about how much space quassel will use for logs. It's already using 33MB after only a week of usage, and I tend to be in some highly active channels.
For now I've left ZNC running as a backup, but I'll shut it down in another week. I still have an irssi session running in a screen on a server I'm logged into with mosh, which is handy for being on both sides of freenode netsplits :P
