Notices by Alex Nedelcu (alexelcu@social.alexn.org)

2 browser extensions that may make your #Mastodon experience better…

StreetPass — find people by collecting accounts from the web:
https://streetpass.social/

Substitoot — fetches missing toot interactions:
https://substitoot.kludge.guru/

"Most large software engineering organizations incentivize anti-automation ... predictable work is work that could have been automated but was not automated."

https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/07/software-engineers-are-not-and-should.html?m=1

This post should be published to #Mastodon, #Bluesky, #Twitter, and #LinkedIn. Testing, testing, please ignore. #op

Yak shaving to the max 💪

https://github.com/alexandru/social-publish

@killyourfm On Hetzner I have an instance with 4 GB of RAM. It's enough to self-host Matomo, Mastodon, the Isso commenting widget, a couple of static websites, and a personal project.

Costs 5.35 EUR / month (without VAT), and it would be 22.5 EUR on DigitalOcean.

I think personal projects / servers need to be cheap for sustainability.

@killyourfm Hetzner is cheaper, and you may need the extra RAM.

@wingo @22 @vascorsd

It's not just Java/Kotlin that want GC in Wasm. One major implementation that's already in use is .NET's Blazor, with a less than ideal impl.:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

Also see:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77

Access to a GC would benefit non-managed languages too, like Rust, because some objects/resources need shared ownership between WASM land and JS land, so having access to the browser's GC from Rust/WASM is valuable actually.

Having a domain name and website for your project is great. You don't want #GitHub to own the entire online identity of your project.

But you should stay away from the .io TLD:

1. It's a country TLD that's disputed, and while it may not go anywhere…
2. It's getting more and more expensive, which for #FOSS projects is a problem.

The best TLD for FOSS projects is probably the .org TLD.
Or, if stuck on .io, at least pre-pay it for years in advance.

#TLD #domains