cketti @cketti@fosstodon.org

This is your periodic reminder that you shouldn't write new code in a memory unsafe language. And please try to migrate old code to a memory safe language. ❤️

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/

…and the first user reported a bug caused by this. Should be easy to fix, though.

I just merged a huge pull request of mine. Still not sure how to feel about it. It's a refactoring that was desperately needed for years. I'm absolutely sure it will make things better in the future. But I'm also fairly certain I just introduced a handful of new bugs. YOLO? 🤷

I usually like receiving bug reports from developers. They often know which technical information is important. When the app crashes, a stack trace is a very good starting point.

But please, PLEASE post it as text. Don't post a screenshot of the log window in your IDE. The issue tracker can deal with a couple of lines of text. It's not a social media site with a character limit 🤬

#opensource #maintainers

I only wanted to add a link to my Mastodon profile to my website. Ended up spending half the day updating to the latest version of beautiful-jekyll and Font Awesome.

"Adversarial Interoperability"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

"Why not add an option for that?"

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2018/07/options.html

#foss #opensource #maintainers

This is my second attempt at using Mastodon. It doesn't look like the server hosting my first account (@cketti) is coming back 😞