#software library

[soapdispensersalesman]

Still the wildest find at the computer science section of the library:

same energy as this:

Computer science people fascinate me so much, what kind of things are going on inside the terminal?

(side note: this made me super excited about the next update of my saturation plugin)

The "software engineer to living off the grid in a cabin far away from society" pipeline needs to be studied:

What was the name of that former Gameloft employee again who now makes Instagram videos in a cabin in the middle of the woods?

[girderednerve]

i installed open video downloader, a FLOSS utility for ripping youtube videos, which is such an easy to use & convenient program, & it reminded me of the campaign i went on (completely unsuccessfully) a couple years ago to get clickless mouse added to the patron computers in my public library, because i had watched multiple older adults struggle immensely to double-click on our computers, went looking for an easy solution for them, & found that someone had already thoughtfully written an elegant & adaptable little program, initially intended as an accessibility tool for a particular friend of theirs. this is why i love FLOSS projects so much: they're usually personal passion projects, at least at the outset, & they reflect such powerfully pro-social values that even when they have nothing to offer me in particular i am delighted by them. thank u to all FLOSS devs <3

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[gracehosborn]

This is a Scrivener appreciation post because ugh I love this software. For the chapter I’m working on, I’ve had to reference both a map and a muster roll, and I can just do this seamlessly without needing to toggle between my manuscript and an internet browser or files. It’s wonderful.

For how wonderful that is, I will only need to look at this muster roll for this one chapter and that’s it. Never to be mentioned again. All the hours of work of hunting the roll down and transcribing it, just for this one scene. 😂

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Matrix (1999, Andy and Larry Wachowski)

07/11/2024

[key0-m0ve-al0ng]

I got coffee yaaaaay

[teenagefeeling]

oh omg i was lookin at the notes on this post and i have to screenshot this and show you all, it's too good of a pro-tip. i've never personally encountered a patron catalog where u can search by shelf location, but if u either a) find something specific in the online catalog and it's in storage you can check it out by either placing a hold on it or just asking at the circ desk or b) want a list of like a specific author or type of work or something where it would narrow it down to a relatively short list, i bet someone in reference would be willing to give you a list of all the titles they have in storage. im also just obsessed w the idea of deliberately checking out books from the corners of shelves im gonna start doing that

[frog707]

Two months remaining

Sonatype's OSSRH will reach end-of-life on 30 June, forcing me to change how I distribute my open-source JVM libraries. I've known about this deadline for about a month now, but so far I haven't made any progress migrating to Central Portal, its replacement.

Currently I have about 25 projects that publish via OSSHR, so this is potentially a major headache for me.

[williamalex75]

[theeclecticlibrary]

It's a trojan horsey! :)

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

I am going to tag as many fandom tags as I can for the things I generally talk about, to say this.

The People of Palestine need our help.

On my blog, I have consistently reblogged GFM posts from Palestinians who need it, and would love for more people to contribute as well.

Just search "Palestine" tags on my blog or just scroll through and you should find plenty, reblogged as of July 21st.

Please. The people of Gaza need our help. Let us all push for a Free Palestine. I do not care about "oh don't bring fandom into this" because all eyes must be on Palestine during a time like this.

[dullahandyke]

another fun tech fool decision ive made is that im highly aware of the foibles of having all your files saved to one specific machine, particularly being unable to access them on other computers, yet i nurse an instinctive hatred for the cloud. Bro I Do Not Trust You

[bmpmp3]

guy who feels a reasonable level of excitement about a vocal synth announcement voice: yeah so ive been listening to the virvox anniversary video (where the voice providers sing in-character) on loop for the past few hours imagining in my mind's eye what Kotarou's AI voicebank might sound like

[gaytobymeres]

i do actually feel kind of over spotify

[weblession]

How can I control render blocking in an HTML and React.js application? Render blocking can significantly impact the performance of your HTML and React.js application, slowing down the initial load time and user experience. It occurs when the browser is prevented from rendering the page until certain resources, like scripts or stylesheets, are loaded and executed. To control render blocking, you can employ various techniques and optimizations. Let's explore some of them with code examples.

[frog707]

Technical writing part 2

My plan to devote April to writing a tutorial (for my Jolt-JNI open-source software library) went about as I expected. 7 days into May, the tutorial still isn't in a presentable state. Hard to predict when it will be ready, but I'm glad to report I've launched the website and established some forward momentum. I've also built some confidence, both in the library and myself. So progress.

A week spent visiting family in another state didn't help. I made almost no progress on software during that time. Not because I was busy or jet-lagged. More like the environment wasn't comfortable for long stretches of keyboard work.

I've heard you don't really understand something until you can explain it to others. Even as I write tutorial pages for Jolt JNI, I'm learning how to use to library. I typically start writing about a feature with only a vague notion of how it should work, based on similar projects I've used in the past. Then I write a short sample app to demonstrate the feature. Often the sample app doesn't work as expected. I find myself troubleshooting the library, the app, and my own expectations, all at the same!

It feels risky to be teaching things I don't fully understand myself. If I'm mistaken about how/whether something works, I might badly mislead people. Such thoughts trigger (irrational) fears of being exposed as an imposter.

But I'm not an imposter. In fact, I might even be the ideal person for this task. Not only did I write the damned library, but I have a plethora of experience with similar libraries. I'm skilled at troubleshooting unexpected behavior. I've written similar tutorials before. And of course I'm fluent in English. It's still difficult.

In a way, my ignorance is a good thing, because I'm still at or near the level of experience of my target audience.

Expertise is valuable, but it gets in the way of writing for beginners. Beginners require explanations of things that seem obvious to experts. Once one becomes an expert, it gets hard to remember how beginners think.