, I rarely use it because my laptop is MIPS-based
with old packages, ruling out both Google's compiler and gccgo. As for
Rust, I've never used it. I reckon both languages are good for
servers.
I'd like to see a display manager written in Go using ideas from rio
and dwm.
Charlie Murphy
On Sun 24 May 2009 at 09:11:37 PDT Leonardo Taccari wrote:
I agree with you Enno, I think that uzbl can became a very interesting
browser because it's trying to follow the Unix way and at the same time
its rendering, thanks to Webkit, isn't bad.
I haven't had a chance to try uzbl yet, but I agr
On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 13:08:06 PDT Anselm R Garbe wrote:
Hi there,
I revived the 9base project which was asleep for nearly 3 years som
days ago and created a new version based on Russ' plan9port from
20090731. You can download it from:
http://code.suckless.org/dl/tools/9base-3.tar.gz
its proj
On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 16:52:39 PDT Samuel Baldwin wrote:
I definitely enjoyed reading this; the principles were especially nice
to have there.
Yes, I agree.
I hadn't seen the "Java is the COBOL of the future" quip before. Very
funny -- and, I believe, something that will be proven true.
I wou
On Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 00:56:29 PDT Anselm R Garbe wrote:
2009/8/7 Antony Jepson :
On 2009-08-06, Charlie Kester wrote:
Help me understand the pro's and con's here. Why/when should I use
9base rather than plan9port?
You could do a little research here to save us all some time. B
On Tue 08 Sep 2009 at 10:38:26 PDT markus schnalke wrote:
[2009-09-08 01:20] Uriel
I have always used troff to generate really nice 4:3 landscape slides,
but that is on Plan 9, I should put my macros and some examples in
http://repo.cat-v.org but it really is not rocket science.
Please do so
On Tue 15 Sep 2009 at 12:33:22 PDT markus schnalke wrote:
You have the separation in the operation system then. Single
independent programs take the place of classes. You can combine them to
larger programs.
Interesting. I've been accustomed to looking at a dataflow diagram and
seeing the bubb
On Tue 15 Sep 2009 at 13:51:44 PDT Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:33:22PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
You have the separation in the operation system then. Single
independent programs take the place of classes. You can combine them
to larger programs.
Again I agree her
On Thu 17 Sep 2009 at 01:54:01 PDT Jessta wrote:
I tend to use tabs as a stack of temporary bookmarks, I navigate to a
page and open all the links I want to see on to tabs, closed that
pages and move through all the tabs, it pretty much makes the back
button redundant.
Mostly I'm just putting th
On Fri 18 Sep 2009 at 18:33:48 PDT Pinocchio wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:16 -0700, Uriel wrote:
Please, lets kill this before it even gets started, we had a huge
discussion about this crap in 9fans if anyone is interested.
Can you summarize why do you think it is crap, for those who are
On Wed 23 Sep 2009 at 10:42:42 PDT hailukah wrote:
After some tinkering I've come up with a method that works for me. It
involves a single file and three commands to manipulate it. I have a
file at ~/.surf/stack. I can add urls (stack), and pull from them
either FILO (unstack), or FIFO (go).
On Thu 15 Oct 2009 at 13:03:15 PDT Bobby wrote:
I misread your email as meaning he never used more than two fingers.
You are correct, and I agree with your comments. In addition, I think
that the main hurdle in all of this is that my hands are moved away
from the keyboard yet again to a different
On Thu 22 Oct 2009 at 05:20:44 PDT Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
what consitutes a "session" ? it's something that is maintained
serverside and the only way to "stay in it" is usually one or more of:
- keeping and sending cookie data
- keeping the same ip (and maybe user agent)
- requesting the urls t
On Sat 24 Oct 2009 at 12:35:36 PDT Uriel wrote:
writing an http client that will handle all the crap out there is
*really* hard
Why is this the goal?
Why, when I want to browse a sane website like suckless.org, for
example, should I have to use a browser containing a bunch of convoluted
code
On Thu 05 Nov 2009 at 15:25:59 PST Thayer Williams wrote:
It was, in my opinion, one of the best examples of a minimal yet
functional website
And the current site is not?
On Sun 15 Nov 2009 at 08:42:16 PST Anselm R Garbe wrote:
Now Go became a target of those feature zealots to try their luck
screwing it up with all the missing features they know from C++. At
least that makes C less vulnerable since they can go play with
something else.
What I really dislike ab
On Sun 24 Jan 2010 at 09:42:59 PST Premysl Hruby wrote:
Btw, There's one issue with trying to get size of process -- shared
memory. To which process should it count? And how? Or count only
fraction for each of process using that shared memory ... Not easy. :-)
If the shared library really is s
On Sun 24 Jan 2010 at 13:26:56 PST Premysl Hruby wrote:
On (24/01/10 13:07), Charlie Kester wrote:
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:07:14 -0800
From: Charlie Kester
To: dev@suckless.org
Subject: Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] How to know the size of a process?
List-Id: dev mail list
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20
User
On Sun 24 Jan 2010 at 11:57:34 PST anonymous wrote:
Where programs should store their options? Sometimes it is said that
global variables are bad, but what is better? Some huge structure
storing all options? Of course, they can be divided into many
structures or they can be passed on a stack inst
On Sun 24 Jan 2010 at 13:48:08 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Sun 24 Jan 2010 at 13:26:56 PST Premysl Hruby wrote:
On (24/01/10 13:07), Charlie Kester wrote:
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:07:14 -0800
From: Charlie Kester
To: dev@suckless.org
Subject: Re: [dev] [OFFTOPIC] How to know the size of a
On Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 06:48:22 PST Noah Birnel wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:43:22AM +, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
In my observation one should stick to one platform, which is nowadays
Linux+common libraries (most of the time) when packaging some source
code. In >90% of all cases it will work
On Mon 01 Feb 2010 at 13:30:00 PST Uriel wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:06 PM, anonymous wrote:
Having said that, in case of rfork vice versa from FreeBSD.
Yes, I am talking about FreeBSD. With configure you can make your
program portable between FreeBSD and Linux. Most probably other
system
On Sun 14 Feb 2010 at 14:48:46 PST Chris Palmer wrote:
David Thiel writes:
Another thing that is mindbogglingly stupid is arguing on the internet
about revision control systems or programming languages.
The key question this thread needs to answer is, is it stupider to argue
about programming
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 07:15:42 PST hiro wrote:
It seems like this guy is just mocking wikipedia's notability guideline.
After reading the discussion, I'm beginning to wonder about wikipedia's
notability. If it's not mentioned on cat-v.org, it's not worth knowing
about. ;)
If wikipedia delet
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 22:53:05 PST Uriel wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 07:15:42 PST hiro wrote:
It seems like this guy is just mocking wikipedia's notability guideline.
After reading the discussion, I'm beginning to wo
On Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 11:17:14 PST Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote:
This is supposed to be a discussion on the Google Summer of Code, not a nerd
fight about whether grep or awk is better, and how to manage files. Can you
guys fork your discussion?
you
On Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 22:46:36 PDT Uriel wrote:
Just noticed that the Wikipedian bureaucratic circus has brought DWM
to the reddit front page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bepvg/wikipedia_notability_and_open_source_software_the/
How fun...
Reading the comments on reddit, I almo
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 13:37:29 PDT Premysl Hruby wrote:
On (18/03/10 20:26), Martin Kopta wrote:
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:26:32 +0100
From: Martin Kopta
To: dev mail list
Subject: Re: [dev] Fwd: Thank you for your application
List-Id: dev mail list
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
What
On Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 08:29:24 PDT Connor Lane Smith wrote:
On 5 April 2010 15:13, Uriel wrote:
Actually, modern browsers parse HTML much faster than XHTML (yes, I
was fooled by the XML scam once too, and it was not until recently
that I discovered even the myth of it making parsing of webpages
On Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 12:30:35 PDT Mate Nagy wrote:
HTML is not XML. don't confuse them.
Of course it isn't. But there are some similarities, both of them being
branches on the SGML family tree.
On Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 07:24:31 PDT Anselm R Garbe wrote:
ignore
Since I read your message and have now replied, does that count as an
ignore fail?
On Fri 31 Jan 2014 at 17:11:35 PST Nick wrote:
Oh, and to come in on an earlier point that was made, TUI sucks, the
only good thing about it is that TUI programs tend to have better
keybindings and scriptability.
My two cents for this bikeshed debate:
All software sucks to some degree. The p
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 11:25:24 PST Silvan Jegen wrote:
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 09:10:02PM +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote:
I find smart autocompletion extremely useful. It gives some basic
info about the function (number of args etc.) and saves a lot of
keystrokes and typos.
I tend to agree. Add
On Sun 02 Feb 2014 at 05:07:47 PST Dimitris Zervas wrote:
So, what I'm telling is to write a simpler library that will support a
very limited number of terms.
That would make it light and suckless.
Isn't most of ncurses' support for different terminals in the
termcap/terminfo data (rather than
On Sun 16 Feb 2014 at 22:57:37 PST Martin Kopta wrote:
I hope FRIGN, Charlie Kester and sin don't mind that I quoted them in the
article.
I don't mind. But the comment from me that you quoted gives the
misleading impression that I'm some kind of spokesman for the suckless
pr
On Mon 17 Feb 2014 at 09:21:28 PST Calvin Morrison wrote:
I'm not sure why tabbed exist when it's a window management feature.
for example i3, a tiling window manager supports tabs as part of it's
stacking methods. (see attachment)
What's the rational reason for it to exist, other than dwm needs
On Fri 21 Feb 2014 at 13:15:24 PST Hadrian W?grzynowski wrote:
Even if it would work, I think that web shouldn't be pixel-perfect,
because we could just use some glorified-PDFs. It's utter nonsense
that correct rendering of page is depending on some specific font and
specific font size. It's utt
On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 12:54:11 PDT Caleb Malchik wrote:
I switched to Linux/cli/dwm from OS X just a few years ago, and since
the switch I feel the way I do certain basic things is embarrassingly
inefficient. For example, if I find an article on the web I want to
come back to, I will copy the
On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 09:29:16 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
Pay attention when things seem too slow or, in your words, feel too
clunky. That's telling you there's a rough edge you need to smooth
down. But once it's fixed and no longer bothering you, there's really
no need t
> var (
> cores = 1
> rxOld = 0
> ...
> )
>
> 3. Instead of appending to the same slice several times just use a
> slice-literal like this:
>
> http://play.golang.org/p/U8r3Z_crOK
this also decreases the amount of allocations the runtime does.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Silvan
>
Other than that, looks great!
-Charlie
;,
"string3", // yes you need the comma here
}
but again, readability is subjective, so it's up to you.
-Charlie
I've seen someone use Oberon in a virtual machine and it is a groovy OS.
Sadly, I didn't see any pipes or other IPC like that, but the "toolbox" idea
where you open "toolboxes" as text and then click/modify actions on them is
awesome!
If you replace Rio with Acme, Plan 9 behaves a lot like Oberon except it
doesn't have rich text formatting.
- Charlie Murphy
suckless.org
I had this problem on other mailing lists. Knowing beforehand would've saved me
much embarrassment in other lists. So, hopefully this helps. Good luck!
-Charlie
(Oh joy, another thread about posting etiquette!)
On Thu 10 Apr 2014 at 10:13:49 PDT Louis Santillan wrote:
When someone invents a monitor that supports displaying content that
is below the fold, first, I'll stop top posting.
Displaying content below the fold is only an issue when people fail
On Thu 01 May 2014 at 08:35:17 PDT Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
Greetings everyone.
After 332 commits and about 9 months of development, the first release
of ubase has been announced on http://suckless.org.
Very cool.
Now I need to get busy and scrub my scripts, getting rid of or rewriting
anyt
On Mon 12 May 2014 at 07:41:49 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
[1]: from dvtm(1) manpage:
Copy and Paste
By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the
actions listed below. Unfortunately this
Why these actions should be provided by dvtm? X server supplies f
On Tue 13 May 2014 at 22:42:42 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
One reason, it seems to me, is to confine the action to one dvtm/tmux pane
when selecting a multiline region of text. st has no awareness that its
window has been divided into more than one pane and therefore cannot wrap the
se
Lee Fallat wrote:
> I've come to adopt the NoLicenseLicense, for sole reason of
> demonstrating to people that many of us code for the sake of fun.
>
> NoLicenseLicense.txt
> There is no license attached to this software, enjoy.
>
> ...Yes this is a joke. If you are interested in these types of
>
On Wed 21 May 2014 at 15:31:18 PDT Eric Pruitt wrote:
I'm curious what non-st terminal emulator you use. On Urxvt, my all
colors beyond #16 look the same as in Xterm without any changes to my
Xresources file or the need to recompile Urxvt. Likewise for MinTTY and
its parent PuTTY. You can even s
On Fri 06 Jun 2014 at 13:55:25 PDT FRIGN wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:27:33 +0200
Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote:
This will introduce the notion that gotos are allowed. Won’t be applied.
A refactoring without goto would be applied.
What's the problem with gotos? It's some bullshit p
Markus Wichmann wrote:
> So, having one program that reads some standardized input and displays
> it on screen, while another program converts any given image file to
> that standardized format may be more UNIX-like.
9front has programs like that[1].
For Linux, netpbm does the same thing[2].
Sylvain BERTRAND wrote:
> Unfortunately, the C toolkits over there are turning very bad:
> GTK+ and the EFL do depend on harfbuzz for their font layout
> computation which is an *really* ugly c++ object-oriented
> brainfuckage (uglier that the glib SDK dependencies!). I did a C
> port of harfbuzz (
On Wed 25 Jun 2014 at 08:39:11 PDT Sylvain BERTRAND wrote:
What I mean: it's totally suckless to write more LOC if it
reduces the technical cost of the overall software stack (SDKs
included!).
It's an old argument: cost to develop versus cost to deploy or run.
The trend in mainstream software
On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 07:43:36 PDT Aapo Vienamo wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 03:00:32PM +0300, Dimitris Zervas wrote:
2. Fantastic syntax highlighting
This may be considered harmfull in general. [0]
[0] http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
Thank you for this link! I
On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 17:48:48 PDT Dimitris Zervas wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
Hello,
After a year or so in the list, I think each and every one is using tmux or
screen (I think more tmux, but do not start a war please, that's not the
subject).
I don't use either of
On Wed 02 Jul 2014 at 04:49:23 PDT FRIGN wrote:
Yes, highlighting comments makes sense, as even the article suggests,
but this is not a central issue if you know how to encapsulate your
comments:
/*
(...)
(...)
(...)
*/
is more error-prone and hard to read than
/*
* (...)
* (...)
* (...)
*/
On Wed 02 Jul 2014 at 06:52:41 PDT Alexander S. wrote:
Good sntax highlighting allows you to *ignore* syntax
better, rather than focusing your attention on it.
You say that like it's a good thing.
On Mon 07 Jul 2014 at 15:51:17 PDT Carlos Torres wrote:
Yo,
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Lee Fallat wrote:
AFAIK no graphical official suckless programs
use libsl yet...)
the way you use libsl is a bit un-orthodox. you basically check it
out into your project and just use it that way.
d
On Thu 10 Jul 2014 at 01:55:24 PDT Marc André Tanner wrote:
I've recently been reading about Project Oberon whose text subsystem
is built on piece tables. That is how I became interested and did some
further investigations. The technique has been used before in a number
of text editors such as Br
On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 04:24:58 PDT patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote:
Hello,
For many years I have been looking for a lightweight alternative to VIM.
(sthg else than Emacs, elvis, nano,... and all the billion of text editor).
I was reading the emailed topic "Text-only browser that sucks less"
On Thu 10 Jul 2014 at 13:29:59 PDT Evan Gates wrote:
I will agree that it's super easy to implement and understand and it covers
most needs.
But how about search?
Is it fast?
What about structural regular expressions as found in sam that aren't
limited to lines?
Yes, one of the things I alwa
On Thu 10 Jul 2014 at 15:46:13 PDT Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 01:43:16AM +0300, Dimitris Zervas wrote:
First of all, we haven't even agree in which data structure will we use.
Buffer gap, piece table, or pointer array?
If you want to tackle this, I'd go with whatever ap
On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 01:48:39 PDT Maxime Coste wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:59:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
I agree. Start by identifying the editing operations that the data
structure must support, no matter how it is implemented. Those
operations will form the API for your data
On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 06:06:39 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 01:48:39 PDT Maxime Coste wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:59:01PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
I agree. Start by identifying the editing operations that the data
structure must support, no matter how it is
On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 06:35:50 PDT Dimitris Zervas wrote:
Well, it's good to have an idea of what am I going to do, after this patch set.
I was thinking of a super easy implementation, nearly without a buffer.
Spit the chars to the screen and replace characters on the fly.
When a buffer is neede
On Mon 14 Jul 2014 at 08:47:14 PDT Dimitris Zervas wrote:
Hello guys,
I just wanted your opinion in implementing a feature inside the code
or calling it via sh.
Which are the advantages for calling a script?
Isn't it performance killer?
The reason many editors took so many features onboard is
conversion tools for
other formats.
Charlie Murphy
[1]: http://pastebin.com/vZEcxte3
FRIGN wrote:
> The writing-function is rather trivial.
> Now, what puzzles me is why no explanation is given on how the data
> itself should be stored. It says RGBA, so I suppose he meant
Thanks for the feedback. The header is strict to avoid complex text
handling. I have attached a script to co
FRIGN wrote:
> Or give a hint on the format:
>
> img16widhei8rgba
I like this.
Charlie Murphy
t "$1" rgba:-
You can exec() this and read the output.
A lot of Linux programs load images with all-encompassing libraries like
SDL_image or DevIL. I think that results in monolithic programs and does
not fit well with the Unix philosophy.
Charlie Murphy
Lee Fallat wrote:
> ...And today I learned the beneficial gains from storing height in an
> image format. So much for extreme minimalism!
It's so you can allocate the buffer before reading from a pipe.
Charlie Murphy
s arranged in height scanlines, where each pixel is
> four bytes. Each byte represents red, green, blue, and alpha respectively.
Much simpler and better than the original! But sadly, now the header cannot be
written from a shell script. :-(
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy wrote:
> Storing these images on a hard drive is a bad idea because they are
> too big. IMO one shouldn't discard PNG or JPEG unless one is afraid
That is, storing images in this hypothetical format is a bad idea.
Charlie Murphy
se:
* the gzip imagefile is a little bigger than the PNG.
* the bzip2 imagefile is a little smaller than the PNG.
Attached are the files.
Charlie Murphy
��S overworld_1.image 흿�.�q��D�M��A����
#��Q\$FIlI!!*��"�`����*��|�d��t\n�"�
)R�a^�{�}�Μ3s~ �y��9��3g
FRIGN wrote:
> BTW: How would we do the conversion? Write an imagemagick-coder?
> If so, I really can recommend the webp.c-coder[0] for its relative
> simplicity.
Here's a script for turning one back into PNG.
imgtopng.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
imageRGBA (exactly 10 bytes)
* img16widhei8rgba (doesn't make sense for ASCII header)
* imagefile (doesn't hint about file contents)
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy wrote:
> * imageRGBA (exactly 10 bytes)
9 bytes, sorry.
converter
script (using ImageMagick) in only two minutes.
I'm going to use an image format like this in a small game soon, to see how
it compares to using PNG sprites.
Charlie Murphy
. I could take a game like SuperTux and swap SDL_image with a
loader for this format.
Charlie Murphy
to bzip2. Like a compressed text file, there's
nothing special about the underlying image format.
Anyway, here's a viewer script in case anybody wants it. :-)
Charlie Murphy
viewer.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
Evan Gates wrote:
> I've attached a version that works with the waterfall.image from
> earlier in the thread. (imgRGBA signature and 7 bytes for width and
> height). It also:
> 1) is POSIX compliant
> 2) works with null bytes separating the sig, width, and height
> 3) will run display serially on a
like having the
spec inside the magic string:
Bytes Description
13 ASCII string: "img13w7h7rgba"
7 Right-justified, space-padded ASCII string containing width.
7 Right-justified, space-padded ASCII string containing height.
(w*h) Raw RGBA.
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy wrote:
> Branding such a general format would be unjust, IMO. I like having the
s/general/simple/
FRIGN wrote:
> But it would be cool if the user wouldn't have to manage this and
> instead was able to rely on any converter to take care of this.
Perhaps it can have an option, like tar does?
tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 archive
imagergba -j ponies.png ponies.image.b
file cut almost half the LOC and
> dramatically improved readability.
Congratulations!
Charlie Murphy
an SDL_Surface made from an imagefile in an SDL_RWops
structure.
Loading bzip2 images is explained in the README.
Good luck!
Charlie Murphy
libSDL_if-0.1.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
Charlie Murphy wrote:
> Here's an SDL loader for imagefile. If you are familiar with SDL_image's
> syntax, you shouldn't have any problems.
IF_Load_RW() has an incorrect line.
, needs to be 16
On Mon 03 Nov 2014 at 12:32:25 PDT Greg Reagle wrote:
I just had a thought that might be of interest to fans of the suckless
philosophy.
It occurred to me that environment variables can be used to configure a
program, instead of programming in a parser or extension language into a
program. Are
On Mon 03 Nov 2014 at 14:26:39 PDT Greg Reagle wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 04:11 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
Environment variables are essentially global variables, visible to every
program and not just the one you want to configure.
Not necessarily. If you set them in .profile or .bashrc
On Mon 24 Nov 2014 at 12:47:30 PDT Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 24 November 2014 at 11:42, v4hn wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:20:44PM +, Henrique Lengler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the situation of GCC, is it bloated?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:35:52PM +, doa379 wrote:
> There's an inc
Evan Gates wrote:
> typedef the new history and recurse structs as per style guide
> -emg
Ahh, it's less verbose. Typedef'd structs have never sent me on a
header-hunt, so sticking with the style guide seems like the right
thing to do.
Charlie Murphy
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 01:25:50 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
Hi,
maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming
Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer.
Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most
practices shown in the book a
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 00:20:32 PDT Jakub Lach wrote:
Dnia 25 kwietnia 2015 8:37 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
napisał(a):
A short list of
well-written books following the philosophy of simplicity would be
a great antidote to current fashion.
I'm currently searching for similar thing, though the f
On Wed 13 May 2015 at 13:20:47 PDT FRIGN wrote:
"Source Code Pro:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:autohint=true";
It's one of the few fonts I know which is not ambiguous with "1", "l",
"i" and "|".
+1
On Sat 27 Feb 2016 at 12:14:47 PST Marc Collin wrote:
So the idea is to send patches to all arg.h files on different
suckless projects when one of them is modified?
Wouldn't it be easier to have a more centralized arg.h (and similar tools)?
I'm not complaining, I just want to understand the idea
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 17:33:41 PDT hiro wrote:
let's maintain a list of of requirements a distro should fulfill.
perhaps we can make a nice table afterwards and see which OS fits
these requirements out of the box.
i'll start with this. convince me otherwise.
1. package system: packages having fe
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 02:54:00 PDT Rubén Llorente wrote:
I stopped caring too much about user-friendlyness long ago, because
no matter what you do, lambs will always find a way to make a mess out
of the easy to use software. The only way a computer-illiterate is going
to be able to use a compute
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 07:47:51 PDT Pickfire wrote:
A ports like system won't be very helpful most of the time, what about a
low end device like raspberry pi, have you ever thought of that?
I don't think that buying a better computer for the sake of being more
suckless is even suckless, not ever
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 08:45:43 PDT hiro wrote:
Package systems are both a symptom and a cause of bloat. They only
exist because most software, along with its metastasizing dependencies,
is a pain in the ass to compile.
Actually compiling software the right way, without many dependencies
is qui
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 08:36:44 PDT Hans Ginzel wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 07:42:26AM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
Package systems are both a symptom and a cause of bloat. They only
exist because most software, along with its metastasizing dependencies,
is a pain in the ass to compile.
The
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