Joël Thieffry Nioub

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

How to make a small tweak to free software

The target audience for this is people who are beginners at software engineering and using linux. A lot of the information here may be obvious or already known to you. The language involved is C but you do not need to know any C to read this tutorial. I used mg to write this blog post. I used vs code to edit the source code.

This post is also available on gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~river/tweak-free-software

If you use a piece of free software and it's 99% perfect but there's just this one thing it does that annoys the hell out of you.. you can in theory just fix it! Here's a look at what doing that is like. Hopefully it inspires you, or you pick up a could tricks on the way!

Step 0: Have a problem

You got your hands on some data that was leaked from a social network and you want to help the poor people.

Luckily you know a government service to automatically block a list of credit cards.

The service is a little old school though and you have to upload a CSV file in the exact format. The upload fails if the CSV file contains invalid data.

The CSV files should have two columns, Name and Credit Card. Also, it must be named after the following pattern:

YYYYMMDD.csv.

The final result: require() any module on npm in your browser console with browserify

This article is written to explain how the above gif works in the chrome (and other) browser consoles. A quick disclaimer: this whole thing is a huge hack, it shouldn't be used for anything seriously, and there are probably much better ways of accomplishing the same.

Update: There are much better ways of accomplishing the same, and the script has been updated to use a much simpler method pulling directly from browserify-cdn. See this thread for details: mathisonian/requirify#5

inspiration

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

(Related blog post)

Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head><title>SOUND</title></head>
	<body>
	<div>Frequence: <span id="frequency"></span></div>
	<script type="text/javascript">

	var audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext \|\| window.webkitAudioContext)();
	var oscillatorNode = audioCtx.createOscillator();
	var gainNode = audioCtx.createGain();

	--
	-- le code ci-dessous a a été fortement amélioré par un effor collaboratif sur
	-- https://github.com/jeantil/admission_post_bac
	-- Pull requests, issues et contributions wiki sont les bienvenues.
	-- Une partie du code a été rétro analysé a partir de diverses sources cf https://github.com/jeantil/admission_post_bac/wiki
	--

	FUNCTION gen class alea V1 relatif grp(
	o_g_ea_cod_ins IN VARCHAR2,
	o_g_ti_cod IN NUMBER,

	/* bling.js */

	window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
	this.addEventListener(name, fn);
	};

	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;

	$ pacman -S $(pacman -Q \| awk '{print $1}')
	warning: bash-4.3.024-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: bash-completion-2.1-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: bsdcpio-3.1.2-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: bsdtar-3.1.2-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: bzip2-1.0.6-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: ca-certificates-20140325-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: catgets-1.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: coreutils-8.23-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
	warning: crypt-1.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling

	docker-image-purge() {
	docker images -q -f dangling=true \| xargs docker rmi
	}