The author shares their experience migrating repositories from GitHub to Codeberg, addressing common concerns about the process. They highlight the ease of migrating issues, pull requests, and releases using Codeberg's import feat...
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0Moving from Mastodon to GoToSocial
2025-02-04 •
The author recently moved their Mastodon instance to GoToSocial due to the resource-intensive nature of Mastodon for single-user instances. The cost of running Mastodon was less than 5 EUR/month, but it required a lot of tweaking....
0A modern feed reader
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the challenges faced by feed readers, particularly in relation to the quality and availability of RSS feeds. It highlights the need for feed readers to adapt to the changing landscape of content consumption and ...
0API wrappers should be deep, not wide
2025-02-04 •
The author discusses the importance of deep, focused API wrappers that handle fundamental tasks like authentication, pagination, and rate-limiting, rather than wide wrappers that only provide basic autocompletion. The author empha...
0ÖBB WiFi issues: cannot connect to railnet.oebb.at
2025-02-04 •
The text provides a solution for Austrian readers who are unable to connect to the Austrian railways' WiFi from their Linux laptops. It addresses specific error messages and provides instructions to resolve the issue.
0Alternative timelines in Mastodon
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the problems with Mastodon's chronological timeline, including issues with catching up with posts across timezones, favoring active posters over inactive ones, and the problem of seeing boosts of the same post m...
0A guide to test parametrization in Rust
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the process of test parametrization in Rust, comparing it to Python and exploring the challenges and solutions. It delves into the two choices to parametrize tests in Rust, code generation and custom test harnes...
0Cool URIs can be ugly
2025-02-04 •
The author describes his experience with Cloudflare Pages and GitHub Pages for hosting his blog. He found that Cloudflare's URL rewriting caused issues with his blog's URL format, leading him to switch back to GitHub Pages. He cri...
The text discusses the issue of fatal errors when using relative paths on Linux, and the author's exploration of the underlying reasons for this issue. It also delves into the maximum path depth on Linux and the problems associate...
0Using type hints in Python 2 libraries
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the use of type hints in Python 2 libraries, the motivation behind it, and the decisions made within the requirements. It explains the use of stub files and type hint comments, the elimination of imports, and fu...
0How to create a traceback object in Python
2025-02-04 •
The author discusses the challenge of having stacktraces when calling Rust code from Python and how to create a traceback object in Python. The article is about a simpler version of the Jinja templating engine and documents some k...
The author discusses the drawbacks of using Dropbox to synchronize todo.txt, a simple task management script, between devices. The post highlights the issues that arise when editing the task list on multiple devices while offline ...
0XSS vulnerabilities in Flattr
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the disclosure of multiple security vulnerabilities to Flattr, which have since been fixed. It explains how Flattr allows users to send money to any user with any URL as payment reference and how it allows you t...
0A bad citizen in Pythonland
2025-02-04 •
The text describes a surreal story of a person in Pythonland who is born as an adult and encounters strange situations throughout their life, including driving a racecar without a license plate, encountering a colleague who disapp...
0A simple synchronization algorithm
2025-02-04 •
The article discusses a simple synchronization algorithm for calendar events and file synchronization. It is targeted at people who need to write some sort of 'cloud synchronization' and have no idea where to start. The algorithm ...
0I hope WebDAV dies
2025-02-04 •
The text discusses the WebDAV protocol and its extensions, CalDAV and CardDAV, which are used for accessing calendars and address books. It highlights the limitations and challenges of using WebDAV, and the author's preference for...
0Why I created vdirsyncer
2025-02-04 •
The author explains how he started looking for alternatives to Google's services and eventually came across the Card- and CalDAV protocols for accessing contact and calendar data from a server. He describes his journey of trying d...