Just uploaded a new release of the #Beast #DAW, the first version that ships a pre-alpha Electronjs based user interface:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2018-August/msg00011.html
And there's a cool new security paper!
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-17.html
basically all Unicode strings need to be typechecked at runtime now I guess
My new statically generated Testbit #blog just went online. There's not much content there yet, I'll migrate posts bit by bit in the following days.
We just took the #lac2018 group photo at Native Space, but I'm not sure I'm on it. It's just way too many people this year.
I'll post a link once it's up.
So, using rawgit.com and a dedicated 'cdn' repo on github, I can now refer to the Charis #webfont with 1 year browser cache times and utilize it from a CSS/HTML generator with just two lines of #CSS:
@import url('https://cdn.rawgit.com/tim-janik/cdn/a8a12dd652e48532faa39657bc5cc268525a89ca/CharisSIL5/CharisSIL-webfont.css');
html { font-family: "CharisSILW", serif; }
No costs involved and no user tracking by fonts.google either ;-)
For a while now, I've been wanting to use the Charis #webfont (SIL license), here's why: https://practicaltypography.com/charter.html
It's not hosted by fonts.google or so, which makes it tricky to refer to it from a #FLOSS project.
Hosting on github has too short cache times (5min) for a large webfont.
Today I finally found https://rawgit.com, a #CDN (StackPath) in front of github with large browser cache times (and mime type fixes).
And an alternative (CloudFlare), also for gitlab: raw.githack.com
Eeek, watch out during upgrades to avoid #ZFS 0.7.7 on Linux, due to potential #dataloss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797932
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401
"NeoPG uses formal grammars even for parsing trivial data structures, down to individual bytes. This article explains why. "
https://neopg.io/blog/no-ad-hoc-parser/
Back from the #libreoffice hackfest /community meetup and some long very interesting talks.
It's a really nice community and having them meet up in Hamburg is something I couldn't possibly have missed!
They are very welcoming, for everyone who wants to get involved as well, here're the easy hacks:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
Holy....shit this font
Brilliant New Typeface Combines Touchable Braille With Visible Letters
https://mymodernmet.com/braille-neue-typeface-kosuke-takahashi/
Screenshots of Open Source Alternatives to Slack that I tested https://flic.kr/s/aHsmfAZH2a
Coming back from the Meet+Greet dinner of the #Libreoffice community in Hamburg. Nice to see old and some new faces again ☺️
Tomorrow is the #Hackfest and community meeting:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Community-Treffen2018
Twitter.com decided to suspend my account, no reasons provided.
I messaged them and now the suspension has been lifted, but without any explanation. Details here:
https://twitter.com/TimJanik/status/981160389177036800
I'd really like folks to switch and use Mastodon instead. If you run into an ill willed admin, you can simply start your own decentralized federation server.
- But so far I'm happy with the tchncs.de admin, thanks @milan ;-)
JeffConf
I'm off to #JeffConf in Hamburg tomorrow morning, is anyone else going to show up there too?
Wow… Habe gerade entdeckt, daß #Grenzwellen mit Ecki Stieg von #Radio Hannover seit ein paar Jahren neu aufgelegt wurde. Für Fans elektronischer Musik ein Muss, damit sind die Mittwoch Abende nun verplant ;-)
Wow… just discovered that radio show "Grenzwellen" with Ecki Stieg has been reborn after a 17 year hiatus. It's coverage of alternative electronic music is unparalleled, the show's an absolute must for fans of electronic music. Now blocking all Wednesday evenings
DSP + UI developer on the Beast DAW, Free Software author + advocate, contributor to ALSA/GNOME/procps/LibreOffice/Mediawiki.