Such an interesting site this Minimal Programming. Feels old school, written by proficient people!
Amiga, Mood
Amiga Workbench Emulator by Christophe Résigné
Christophe Résigné wrote Ia full javascript (~3000 lines of code) remake of the classic Amiga’s operating system in his Chrome Experiments. And it feels almost like the original! A truly smart guy!
Status
Ok, it’s time to feverishly stick standard like WebRTC, aka Firefox Hello! In fact it seems that Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting?
Mood
Fool’s day
Only on the fool’s day I could have done the foolishness of coming to work on hour earlier than usual for the sake of a.l bet with a coworker… 🙂
Torvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot
Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”
I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.
Status
VoCore: Mini Linux Computer, Take on Endless Electronic Projects with the Tiniest Linux Computer Yet!
This is more powerful than my first Linux box, which was an Amiga 1200 with 16mb of memory and a 50mhz Motorola 68060 CPU! They can’t make it smaller, they’ve hit the size of an Ethernet plug!
Fun
Crazy
Senza categoria
A civil engineer’s rant
That’s not mine. Our new building code is born old. Bureaucracy stubbornly requires the engineer to comply to impossible requirements: old gravel walls bound with insufficient amount of cement and without rebars should comply to ductility requirements of new steel-reinforced, new walls but you cannot rebuild it! Those are absurd, unfulfillable requirements but those bureaucrats…
Desktop, Gnome, GNU/Linux
TopIcons Plus – GNOME Shell Extensions
TopIcons Plus the “modern” way to have tray icons on your Gnome3 desktop. So you will get something like this:
Microsoft, Mood
They got an Elephant In the House
From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding…