This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.
On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that
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.
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.
This project is a tiny compiler for a very simple language consisting of boolean expression.
The language has two constants: 1 for true and 0 for false, and 4 logic gates:
! (not), & (and), | (or), and ^ (xor).
It can also use parentheses to manage priorities.
Here is its grammar in BNF format:
expr ::= "0" | "1"
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Plugin Name: Block — Hi Test | |
| * Description: The shortest possible example PHP-rendered WordPress block. | |
| * Author: Paul Clark | |
| * Author URI: https://pdclark.com | |
| * | |
| * @package hi | |
| */ |
| const pw = require('playwright'); | |
| const UserAgent = require('user-agents'); | |
| const uuid = require('uuid'); | |
| const tmp = require('tmp-promise'); | |
| const UINT32_MAX = (2 ** 32) - 1; | |
| const WEBGL_RENDERERS = ['ANGLE (NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)', 'ANGLE (NVIDIA Quadro K420 Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (NVIDIA Quadro K2000M Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Family Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)', 'ANGLE (AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Family Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)', 'ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Family Direct3D |
This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.
Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:
First we create a workspace for our project:
| local obs = obslua | |
| local ffi = require 'ffi' | |
| local obsffi | |
| if ffi.os == "OSX" then | |
| obsffi = ffi.load("obs.0.dylib") | |
| else | |
| obsffi = ffi.load("obs") | |
| end | |
| ffi.cdef[[ |
If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools,
you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without
having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an
obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I
did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that
I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They
are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # non-interactive kde installer for alpine | |
| # apk add curl && curl -L https://cutt.ly/alpine_kde | sh | |
| echo "I will make Alpine Linux a Desktop Linux.. ." | |
| ## Desktop user |
| I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction | |
| ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to | |
| make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it | |
| because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how | |
| nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand | |
| adventure. | |
| Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy | |
| into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of | |
| mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much |
