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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

Hit me up with your summer holiday reading recommendations!

I've been playing with TreeSitter a little bit, which is quite interesting. In particular a Markdown parser for it. The parser has decided to split itself into two parsers (following CommonMark parsing suggestion): first Block, then Inline. However, lots of useful TreeSitter stuff cannot span that boundary automatically. E.g. TreeSitter queries. So if you want to find an anchor inside a header, you've got to write two queries. Frustrating.

@mhoye The graph/pic doesn't say so, but, is this just EV sales data for the other companies?

@mhoye nope. Phew :)

@mhoye i have absolutely no idea how often my reader pulls your feed. Perhaps I’d better take a look…

Debian to the moon! 🚀

"Multi-Agent Autonomy for Space Exploration on the CADRE Lunar Technology Demonstration"

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10521425

@pwaring oh that’s bad. I agree it’s likely got worse :( your MPhil sounds interesting. Is it public?

What’s the half life of blogs these days? Found a promising link on Reddit that’s only 8 months old, blog gone

Possibly the worst take I've seen in Open Source, at least this Month

https://fosstodon.org/@SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social/112421851735990906

There’s a beautiful review/eulogy by Val Nolan of Christopher Priest’s “airside” in this issue https://mastodon.online/@InterzoneMag/112372448018618408

⛸️10

@fraggle I hear it’s huge in the US too? (as is Bluey, which is huge over here)

@fraggle no wait that’s daddy pig

@fraggle also (if I’m not mistaken) the overworld narrator in Dungeon Keeper

@psn wow! What’s your next adventure going to be?

An old, prescient comment re NixOS community. It’s got me thinking about how well it might apply to Debian communities (especially disconnected ones like Debian-user mailing list) https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98#issuecomment-894473214

New blog post: Biosphere https://jmtd.net/log/biosphere/ #music

@venthur @dondelelcaro this got me thinking on the nature of "long term" or "short term" in FOSS/volunteer projects. If nobody steps up to do the WSDL work, is that still "short term"?

This morning's soundtrack: the mighty Biosphere https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/music

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