Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to March 2022 or February 2022. TLS The New Illustrated TLS Connection explains visually the different exchanges to initiate a TLS 1.3 connection. CLI If you wish to use Vim as an IDE, the distribution SpaceVim aggregates layers of plugin and […]
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Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to February 2022. CLI Browsing the Terminator terminal emulator plugins capabilities, I’ve prepared a resolve-hash command to find the URL matching a Git SHA-1 hash. Let’s go back to 1997: Brian W. Kernighan publishes an article how to use advanced commands […]
Read moreGet URL from Git commit hash
SHA-1 Git hashes can be mapped to code review or code repository URL to offer a web visualization with additional context. The resolve-hash command allows to get such URL from a Git hash, or another VCS reference. It can search Phabricator, Gerrit, GitHub and GitLab currently. Ouf of the box, it will detect your ~/.arcrc […]
Read moreFebruary 2022 in links
The secret life of strings An interesting discussion about bytes, code points and grapheme on the PHP internals mailing list explains why the notion of string length isn’t relevant. Per this discussion, the grapheme extension functions will now be supported for UTF-8 encoding by OmniTools. Console love Among the trending projects on GitHub in January […]
Read moreIEC 559 support in LibTomMath on FreeBSD
Raku is the new name of Perl 6, a language inspired by Perl and compiled for a virtual machine. When preparing FreeBSD ports for the Raku ecosystem, I’ve noticed those depend on LibTomMath, with IEEE754 floating point format support.
Read moreImplement /.well-known/change-password
The /.well-known/change-password is a new URL provided by Safari to allow to redirect the user on the location they can change their password.
Read moreMarch 2018 in links
Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. Illustration: The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 26 March 2018. Science 17 March 1958, a small satellite, the size of a grapefruit is launched. It’s still […]
Read moreGSoC 2018 at Wikimedia
This year, 65 students have sent a final proposal. Thanks to Rosalie Perside and Balaji for their proposal to build a Twitter bot receiving emojis and replying with a Wikimedia Commons photography.
Read moreCSS Flexbox & CSS Grid
Two new important parts of CSS allow to solve layout problems: Flexible Box Layout model — Flexbox Grid layout model — Grid Both allows to prepare correct and responsive layouts, and are used by modern CSS frameworks to create grids. Let’s discover them through tow interesting games where we can use them and each of […]
Read moreUpgrade beyond Docker 1.12 on CentOS 7
If you’ve a CentOS 7 server, you probably picked at first Docker from a specialized CBS from Project Atomic, “virt7”, or from EPEL. It’s been a while Docker 1.13 has been released. Yet, there isn’t any upgrade beyond 1.12 (but fixes backported to this 1.12 branch). You need to get rid of the old packages, […]
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