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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm
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Software developer, book enthusiast, connoisseur of black coffee - with lots of milk and a pinch of sugar
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2017-04-08 00:17
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crypticwyrm
programming
2019-02-23 00:00
My thoughts on Svelte - The magical disappearing UI framework
A few months ago I've made a Mastodon account (that I haven't really been using since I tried to stay off social media and focus on work for a while, and I also prefer the fully decentralized Secure
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crypticwyrm
programming
2019-02-15 11:39
iftool - Live Interactive Fiction Development Environment
I've been playing around with ideas for interactive fiction creation tools for many years, even more so when multiple choice interactive fiction, the digital equivalent of those old choose your own adventure
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crypticwyrm
linux
2018-12-06 02:10
Do you use the Brave browser on Linux? Make your voice heard to make Widevine support a priority
Linux users of the privacy focused Open Source Brave browser have been asking about Widevine support since at least 2016, but even in the new Chromium based version of Brave that replaced the old Muon
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-12-05 19:22
Flare - "Insanely Fast Vector Animation for Apps, Games and Web" announced at Flutter Live
The Flutter Live conference was yesterday, a conference all about Google's Flutter UI toolkit for Android and iOS (and soon for desktop and web) using Google's Dart programming language. One of the
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-12-04 21:33
Movim - Federated Open Source social media platform welcomes Tumblr refugees
Tumblr recently announced they will ban all adult content from their platform starting December 17th, a move that has surprised many people because Tumblr has become a bit infamous as a platform for adult
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crypticwyrm
programming
2018-12-04 19:51
Microsoft releases WPF, Windows Forms and WinUI for .NET Core as MIT licensed Open Source
One thing that was still missing from the Open Source release of .NET via .Net Core was an open source version of Microsoft's GUI projects WPF, Windows Forms and WinUI, which Microsoft has now done and
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-12-04 18:37
How to write software if you're blind
As a programmer I stare at a screen almost all day every day and have done so almost my entire life, starting at age 5 with playing games and then moving on to programming at age 8. The most important
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-12-04 13:38
Cool Retro Term - A terminal emulator with retro CRT look for macOS and Linux
Ever wanted to experience what is was like playing the Zork text adventure back in the day? Modern computers just don't give you that experience that an old CRT monitor gave you, old games looked a lot
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-12-04 12:42
Rumor: Microsoft is working on Chromium based replacement for Edge
The blog Windows Central reports that sources have told them Microsoft is working on a Chromium based replacement for Microsoft's Edge web browser, with the codename "Anaheim", and has already
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crypticwyrm
programming
2018-12-02 21:39
Flutter for desktop announced, a competitor to Electron?
Flutter is a great tool from Google to write native apps that run on both iOS and Android. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a language that is so similar to JavaScript that you can pick it up in an evening
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crypticwyrm
programming
2018-12-01 02:21
Evaluating the Rust Programming Language: I don't like Rust so I'm learning it
I've decided to take a deeper look at Rust by working through the official book and writing a few small applications. My first thought when I saw Rust a few years ago was "This is horrifying, a huge
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-11-22 19:26
The Google Cemetery - A list of dead Google projects and why they were shut down
Google has become a bit infamous for killing off their projects. Especially the shutdown of Google Reader hit Google's brand hard in my opinion. It didn't have mainstream appeal when it was shut down,
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crypticwyrm
linux
2018-11-20 11:09
Spectre-V2 mitigation in Linux Kernel 4.20 RC & 4.19.2 can make Linux on Intel CPUs significantly slower
If it wasn't clear before, Spectre & Meltdown, the security issues that effect mostly Intel CPUs but also to a much lesser degree other CPUs like ARM and AMD, are the worst security issues found in
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crypticwyrm
linux
2018-11-19 21:43
Copy Paste Grab, my first fully native Linux app in the elementary OS AppCenter, GPL3 Open Source
I've written an article a little over three weeks ago describing my experience while developing my first fully native GTK3 app for Linux, with tips and resources on how you can get started developing your
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crypticwyrm
utopian-io
2018-11-19 20:19
Steem Observatory is now on Github, Open Source under the MIT license
Source code repository: As promised, Steem Observatory is now on Github, Open Source under the MIT license, following my recent Open Source release of Columns for Steem, my multi column Steem client (like
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crypticwyrm
gaming
2018-11-18 22:10
Shockolate - Cross platform SDL port of System Shock from the creator of Delver
While I was checking out the recent open sourcing of Delver's graphics engine and level editor (3D dungeon crawler with pixel graphics), I stumbled upon another project created by the same developer, called
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crypticwyrm
linux
2018-11-17 12:12
FeedReader - A modern and native GTK3 desktop RSS reader for Linux
When Google Reader died, in some sense RSS died with it. You used to see little RSS icons on every blog, RSS support was built into web browsers, but now it's getting harder to find RSS feeds and browsers
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crypticwyrm
programming
2018-11-17 10:42
Golua - Microsoft open sources Lua 5.3 engine written in Go
There are a few Lua implementations written in Go already, but Microsoft found none that target Lua 5.3, so they set out to develop their own as MIT licensed Open Source, with a focus on better error handling
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crypticwyrm
technology
2018-11-16 10:13
sr.ht (pronounced Sir Hat) - Open Source software forge goes public alpha, developers fall in love at first sight
sr.ht is a so called software forge, a suite of applications for software developers to deal with source code management, issue tracking, continuous integration, mailing lists and so on. It was created
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crypticwyrm
steem
2018-11-15 14:20
Columns for Steem Update - Small design changes, new tight layout setting
It's been quite a few months since the last Columns for Steem update in March, but I've started working on it again after Open Sourcing it two days ago, so here is the first new small update. As you can
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