aidog's comments

On: Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems

[aidog]

Noteworthy in the MRuby universe, which is all about lightweight Ruby implementations is picoruby. You can get an integrated ruby shell on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJC_v5Lus8 https://picoruby.org/

On: F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

[aidog]

It's sad, that android is the only system that can be used to code on the device thanks to termux and now google wants to end this.

On: A big ask from a big community

[aidog]

PHP Maintainer Joe Watkins aka krakjoe story.

On: A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)

[aidog]

I followed Thor's journey over the years. Great dude and a incredible achivement. Imagine planning for 4 years but hanging on for 10! He also had bad luck being stuck during covid.

[alabastervlog → aidog]

Planning for a shorter trip but running into trouble that stretches it to 10 years seems like almost the ideal outcome.

The full Odysseus experience. Minus starting it with ten other years away at war, I guess.

On: Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

[aidog]

It's something I ran into quite a few times in my career. It's a weird call to get if the client can't save their cms site, due to typing something harmless. I think worst was when there was a dropdown that I defined which had a value in the mod rules that was not allowed.

[sfoley → aidog]

I cannot reproduce this.

On: We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing

[aidog]

I saw a child chat with an AI Tom Felton on the bus using her smartphone. I'm not sure if that is healthy.

On: Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices?

[aidog]

picoruby is a lot of fun. It's a reimplementation of mruby/c which is even smaller. You might be interested in my friend and creator HASUMI Hitoshi's presentation. He shows off his Ruby REPL that runs on the Raspberry Pi pico. Recently he ported picoruby to other microcontrollers.

https://youtu.be/WxZNE5zTAjg?si=7DQUcQg80RMZoU0b

[rahil627 → aidog]

thank you for this!! I <3 Taiwan. lol star wars font. I knew he was special from his GitHub photo XD

[rahil627 → aidog]

oooooooooooh snap! irb/ruby repl on a micro-controller is soooo sick!!

On: Body Doubling

[aidog]

See also https://adhdactually.com/membership Basically moderated by a small team zoom sessions to body double.

On: 10 Years of HexaPDF

[aidog]

Note: This is by the author of the popular kramdown markdown library.

On: How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?

[aidog]

I would be happy to just get the old PWA mode back. Turn a webapp into a window.

[leejoramo → aidog]

Exactly this. I have to use Chrome (or one of its non-Google flavors) to easily create dedicated Desktop apps for websites. I would prefer to use Firefox but they killed this feature long ago.

Glad Firefox is revisiting PWA/WebApps

[cranberryturkey → leejoramo]

Anyone know why Firefox killed PWA support?

[erichdongubler → cranberryturkey]

I think it's addressed in the article:

> As you may know, we built a prototype for desktop PWAs a few years ago, and unfortunately user testing on our solution showed confusion and lack of perceived value. We didn’t release it because we didn’t have an approach that could meet the needs of power users without causing confusion among the broader user base.

[cranberryturkey → erichdongubler]

it was live for awhile...don't know why they removed it for that reason. seems like your average user wouldn't know to use a PWA but the power users got screwed.