Ian Channing ianchanning

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ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

Install Adobe Digital Editions and Calibre DeDRM on Fedora

How to get an .epub from an .acsm on Fedora Linux

This guide is based on Installing on Arch Linux via WINE and Exactly how to remove DRM.

The steps below were tested with Fedora 32.

Install Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)

IMPORTANT

See the following links for further updates to Github Desktop for Ubuntu. These are official instructions. (also mentioned by fetwar on Nov 3, 2023)

For the sake of "maintaining the tradition" here is the updated version.

	This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

	Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
	distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
	binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
	means.

	In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
	of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
	software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit

	await new Promise(function (resolve) {
	setTimeout(function () {
	resolve();
	}, 1000);
	});

	// ... Can be shortened to:

	await new Promise(function (resolve) {
	setTimeout(resolve, 1000);

	"modules": {
	"BLEModule": {
	"version": "1.0",
	"type": "docker",
	"status": "running",
	"restartPolicy": "always",
	"settings": {
	"image": "${MODULES.BLEModule}",
	"createOptions": {
	"NetworkingConfig": {

	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

	# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
	# Usage: mv oldfilename
	# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
	# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
	# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
	#
	# Also see:
	# - imv from renameutils
	# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)

	require "sqlite3"
	require 'set'
	require 'byebug'
	# Will be rebuilt at any time. Nice and incremental.
	db = SQLite3::Database.new "index.db"

	# Keep prefix indexes for "mos*" searches.
	#
	# TODO: It doesn't seem like SQLITE FTS5 supports synonyms well. That's ok, but
	# we're going to want that. We can download this database from Princeton, write