Brian Donovan

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I ported the zbar library from C to Rust, and it now has a website with a WASM demo and an npm package: https://zedbar.org/
Zedbar - QR & Barcode Scanner for Rust and Node.js

Fast, pure-Rust barcode and QR code scanner. Use in Rust projects or Node.js via WebAssembly.

Any Rustaceans want to help me remove the last bit of `unsafe` from my zbar port? https://github.com/eventualbuddha/zbar/pull/5#issuecomment-3488782054
Convert the project to Rust by eventualbuddha · Pull Request #5 · eventualbuddha/zbar

This is a port of the original C codebase to Rust. So far, it's been mostly done by Claude Code, at least initially. A substantial amount of the later work on this branch was done by me. Goals ...

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@atpfm I share your “if it’s not in the calendar it’s not going to happen” viewpoint. Sometimes that’s not enough, though, since I often just don’t see the alerts. I missed a haircut appointment once because of this and decided to see if I could do better. I ended up making a Shortcut that runs daily and creates alarms for anything in my calendar with a particular emoji in the title. This has been a big help: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/998f7f6b5c9b442b8d38c4085737e553
Shortcuts

I’m late to the party with this, but I enjoyed how much this captured my own experience as a programmer: https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

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Objectively, it's far more troubling that they're banning Toni Morrison and David Levithan and Art Spiegelman and any books that even hint at representing the right's Horsemen of the Apocalypse

But there's something so completely batshit about banning _Calvin and Hobbes_, a comic strip so family friendly that it ran uncensored in the most conservative newspapers in the country for more than a decade

https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

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YES! I’d have rather it be Rust, but beggars can’t be choosers. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript

Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

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@jsnell pointed out that https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ exists and looks pretty cool for this purpose too. Also open source!
Kill the Newsletter!

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

I scratched an itch.

Some newsletters are not accessible via a RSS/JSON feed (or only pretend to be, like Substack). If you have a JMAP-compatible email provider (like Fastmail), you can use this to fetch the newsletter emails and turn them into JSONFeed: https://github.com/eventualbuddha/email-feeder

GitHub - eventualbuddha/email-feeder: Subscribe to emails from your feed reader app

Subscribe to emails from your feed reader app. Contribute to eventualbuddha/email-feeder development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This is what a Democrat meeting the moment sounds like. We need more like this. A lot more.
https://youtu.be/G3_SLAzHMmc?si=WpBDMG5bh_rnPMGn
Pritzker invokes Nazi references, criticizing Trump, during budget speech

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A text message said:

“Site is up again at 02/10/2025 04:14:07 PM. Downtime: 2m.”

Siri read this aloud as:

"Site is up again at two ten twenty twenty five, four hours fourteen minutes and seven seconds PM, downtime two meters.“

Still waiting for this to seem even remotely intelligent