Mastodawn

PSA to y'all #IRC users: the latest release of #Halloy supports more #IRCv3 specs! Including `typing` (now on @liberachat too), and `+draft/react` & `draft/multiline` on servers that support (ergo.chat) them!

It's been very pleasant to use Halloy for IRC, so many nice quality-of-life features 🫶

Full changelog: https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/releases/tag/2026.5

Release 2026.5 · squidowl/halloy

Added: Setting to limit reaction display length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_display) and maximum length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_chars) Emoji and command picker entries are no...

GitHub

zrzz Mar 8

J. Alan Henning Mar 7

Given the ZX81 anniversary, I'll re-up my least popular blog post from last year, Sinclair 4K BASIC for the ZX80: https://troypress.com/sinclair-4k-basic-for-the-zx80/ #ZX81 #ZX80 #retrocomputing #BASIC

Sinclair 4K BASIC for the ZX80

In my study of Tiny BASICs, one I overlooked reviewing was Sinclair 4K BASIC, which stands out for its unique keyboard, its approach to graphics, and its memory usage.

Troy Press

zrzz Mar 6

Medieval Illumination Mar 6

Three Little Boars. Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407. NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 1v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

zrzz Feb 3

Lars Ingebrigtsen Feb 2

What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/

zrzz Jan 16

Simon Ser Jan 15

Goguma v0.9 has been released!

https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Cookie monster!

zrzz Jan 16

F-Droid Jan 16

#UnifiedPush is on everybody's lips when it comes to #decentralization or #deGoogle or wanting to cut off #BigTech from your live.

But did you know how it was started? How many times its destiny intersected with #FDroid ?

Read here, straight from the creator: https://f-droid.org/2026/01/08/unifiedpush-5-years.html

5 years of UnifiedPush | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Back in 2020, “OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android” has been announced on F-Droid at its beginning, and in 2022 the Unified...

zrzz Jan 15

IRC technology news from the second half of 2025

https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2025/

#irc #ircv3

IRC technology news from the second half of 2025

I have to start this edition of IRC news by addressing a worrying trend affecting software development globally. If you are wondering, why your project is no longer listed, one reason might be excessive use of gen AI in development. If I see a bunch of AI-driven mega-commits, I lose trust in your development process and can’t in good conscience write about your project. The chances of getting your project covered here increase by not using gen AI, by having an AI policy and writing informative commit messages. For transparency in general, it would be nice, if developers always disclosed gen AI use in commit messages or at least clearly mentioned in the readme that gen AI has been used.

Ilmari Lauhakangas

zrzz Nov 29

F-Droid Nov 26

15 years fly by like last week, when you're the package manager for #Android, but you feel the technical debt more and more.

What to do? Rip it out and start over? Improve bit by bit? RiiR?

Find out how #FDroid prepares for the next 15 here: https://f-droid.org/2025/11/24/an-experiment-in-automated-building-from-source-15-years-later.html

An experiment in automated building from source, 15 years later | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our apps from sour...

zrzz Nov 9