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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 25, 2023
=> Android Leftovers | Pale Moon 32.0
=> ↺ Creating slides with Markdown using Marp
Need to make a presentation, but don’t like using a GUI app? Take a look at Marp, the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem.
Many folks like to knock slides as a format for conveying information. I don’t dislike slides as a way to convey and present (some) information. But I have never loved using apps like PowerPoint, Google Slides, or LibreOffice Impress. Converting Markdown to slides, though, is a great way for me to knock out a first draft of a presentation.
When I work on work documents, I’ll often revert to Vim + Markdown to do a first draft. The important thing in a first draft is to get the outline in place and then fill out the text. Markdown offers enough formatting that I can do the headings (outline), bullets, minimal formatting, and links without needing to fuss with all the formatting options in a word processor.
=> ↺ Ports updates in january 2023
It’s been a really slow month for me on the Free Software front. Roughly since the KDE e.V. board meeting in Berlin I’ve been swamped with work-work (just lots of C++ code to grind through) and personal (family health matters) issues. The effect is that when I sit down at my FreeBSD workstation, I have at most 15 minutes a day to deal with whatever Free Software things affect me. That’s KDE, Calamares, and FreeBSD, so they all get short shrift. I finally did sit down this week and get a little more done, so here’s a brief report.
=> ↺ Healthy Mind, Healthy Code
Let us explore ways to have a healthy relationship with free software work, and how to enjoy working in free software for decades.
=> ↺ My plans at FOSDEM: SourceHut, Hare, and Helios
FOSDEM is right around the corner, and finally in person after long years of dealing with COVID. I’ll be there again this year, and I’m looking forward to it! I have four slots on the schedule (wow! Thanks for arranging these, FOSDEM team) and I’ll be talking about several projects. There is a quick lightning talk on Saturday to introduce Helios and tease a full-length talk on Sunday, a meetup for the Hare community, and a meetup for the SourceHut community. I hope to see you there!
With my open source work, I've historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I've tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software.
This is a quick run-down of how I'm structuring my test suite in newer projects. It's likely that many of my existing projects will never adopt this structure, but some may.
=> ↺ 1.67.0 pre-release testing | Inside Rust Blog
The 1.67.0 pre-release is ready for testing. The release is scheduled for January 26. Release notes can be found here.
=> ↺ Packaging Rust Applications for the NPM Registry
=> ↺ Diversifying our Content Delivery Networks | Inside Rust Blog
Over the past few weeks, the Infrastructure Team has been working on a setting up a second Content Delivery Network (CDN) for releases and crates.
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