Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

it'd be fun to make a mechanical keyboard marketed to writers

one fun feature I'd def include: a dedicated em-dash key

h/t https://twitter.com/MarcusCVance/status/1445894371858022401

does Twitch really require a confirmed mobile number to enable any form of 2FA?

has anyone tried the Warp terminal emulator?

https://matduggan.com/warp-terminal-emulator-review/

interesting bird site thread about a possible issue with the 1Password CLI that I don't _quite_ understand

https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1443037314817695744

wild story about how today's college students don't have a mental model for computer directory systems or the concept of files

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

i want to try Python 3.10 to get pattern-matching[1], but I'm also afraid it'll totally blow up my precarious Python environment that I don't understand...

https://benhoyt.com/writings/python-pattern-matching/

Cwtch devs just pushed a v basic Rust crate with bindings for libCwtch

https://crates.io/crates/libcwtch

https://docs.rs/libcwtch/0.1.0/libcwtch/

https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/libcwtch-rs

I understand this is super vague, but if I have a Python script that I want to run 24/7, but every so often it just stops working (but doesn't error out)...

anything I should check that I might not have thought of?

Interesting story about how a lot of original Sept 11th, 2001, online coverage was built for Flash, and how some outlets are using Ruffle, a Flash emulator written in Rust, to recreate that content.

> Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/tech/digital-news-coverage-9-11/index.html

interesting

> WhatsApp will let its more than 2 billion users fully encrypt the backups of their messages, the Facebook-owned app announced Friday.

> WhatsApp’s announcement means the app is going a step further than Apple, which encrypts iMessages but still holds the keys to encrypted backups...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22665968/whatsapp-backups-end-to-end-encryption-ios-android

anyone else reading the new Sally Rooney novel?

0 is positive in Python3?

>>> "{0:+}%".format(-2)
'-2%'
>>> "{0:+}%".format(+2)
'+2%'
>>> "{0:+}%".format(22)
'+22%'
>>> "{0:+}%".format(0)
'+0%'

first time I've found a CLI written in D in the wild

> trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin

https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d

h/t https://lobste.rs/s/uh31jw/trash_d_near_drop_replacement_for_rm_uses

here's how I adapted another one of my Rust CLIs to print to standard output (just println!)

https://github.com/sts10/tidy/blob/main/src/main.rs#L90-L104

Think it's a decent solution? Need to test it a bit more though.

OK here's where I'm at:

I want my Rust CLI to accept input from stdin (a pipe?) OR the traditional way (`foo -abc input.txt`)

But I also use StructOpt[1]... which might be too strict for this kind of thing?

(1) https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt

for stdin and Rust, this SO answer looks promising!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/49964042

oh dang, one of my Rust CLIs just works with `fgift input_file.csv > output.txt`.

https://github.com/sts10/fgift

huh!

I re-wrote my beginner's guide to age for v 1.0, if you're looking to play around with it

https://sts10.github.io/2021/09/06/exploring-age-1-point-0.html

Please let me know if you catch an error!