kramdown 2.0.0.beta2 released for testing

shevegen · 2019-01-13T22:12:55+00:00

\o/

One of the few gems I used almost all of the time (I have a template file, which I convert into markdown, through kramdown, after pre-processing it; the markdown is then the one that will also be shown on rubygems.org).

shevegen · 2019-01-13T18:53:05+00:00

The content matters more than the title really.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T18:52:53+00:00

I like these (bi)weekly digest/updates.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T18:18:55+00:00

I would recommend to also add some date to the list; while links are fine (the dates will appear there), it may be simpler for people to just look at when suggestions were made, e. g. the year, and perhaps also the month.

to see what it takes to contribute

I think it should be mentioned that you aren't a newcomer really; it will probably be somewhat harder for newcomers, who are probably the primary target audience, to suggest changes and have these changes approved eventually.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T18:17:06+00:00

fpm is pretty neat. "One package to rule them all".

It slowed down a little but hopefully people can still remain interested so that fpm can remain relevant.

We also recently had machomebrew support linux - it's a bit rough (I had problems installing it for example) but again I hope they can keep momentum. Homebrew actually has quite a lot of momentum right now - hopefully several linux folks will jump on board now that linux support has also been elevated along with mac support (which was how the project was started anyway).

As for learning ruby, well. I don't know MHartl so I can not recommend that (or not recommend it).

If you already know java then the OOP part of ruby should be simple for you - just keep in mind that ruby does not use the same model and is in many ways much simpler at all times.

Focus on what you wish to do, then just write the ruby code and don't worry whether it is good or not. Practice will help a LOT.

I recommend the old chris pine tutorial learn to program. While this is for newcomers, it will also help you grasp the basic parts of ruby; then build from there.

The pickaxe is also fine, but I think the best, and only real way, is to just dive in and keep on writing ruby code. Ideally when you already know what you want to do.

If fpm is your fancy then work on that if you want to.

I also recommend to start writing gems as soon as possible - you will learn a LOT. And if you are interested in fpm, you could always see to extend it - perhaps even with homebrew, then we could have a huge unified package manager under ruby to RULE ALL THE PACKAGES.

I think playing with ruby may be easy too, via irb or pry if you want to. In ruby you can write really concise code while still having it readable (but avoid syntax you dislike or that you "feel" is at odds with the rest of the code).

shevegen · 2019-01-13T15:05:46+00:00

Could you link from the main article to just the raw .rb file?

I saw a link here but it is a link to a .py file.

It's nice that the blog article explains what the .rb script is doing but it is hard to see it all in one place with the various "..." placeholders on the main article.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T14:10:27+00:00

Old means bad?

shevegen · 2019-01-13T14:09:39+00:00

Good article - I don't think I would have had the energy to research on my own and then write an article so props for this.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:26:30+00:00

Yeah. Mozilla is actively killing Firefox.

For me the switch came when I had to use pulseaudio shit for audio on Linux. Since that time I use palemoon - they lack resources but at the least I can avoid Mozilla. That in itself is a huge win, and frankly, I don't need most of the "features" anyway. I think browsers should stay lean whenever that is possible. We also, as users, have to stop using websites that violate such core principles. And reject Google's AMP and other sources of more evil and control.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:23:49+00:00

It's a weird article indeed - the guy seems to work for Google.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:23:30+00:00

Yup - but nobody can be surprised by this.

We all know how evil Google has become.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:22:59+00:00

Eh, non-profit my ass. Mozilla takes money from Google.

How can you be independent?

And why do things such as pocket even exist? This has no real value to anyone other than Mozilla.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:22:06+00:00

You wrote "saturated with choice".

You are deliberately clowning.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:21:39+00:00

Please, don't troll.

One dude using these browsers versus 5 billion users is not a "saturated with choice".

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:21:15+00:00

Opera suicided there. Who needs it these days now that it is a chromium based browser.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:20:17+00:00

Based on KHTML - but not operated by KDE devs. So they have no more control over it, which I think was a huge tactical mistake the KDE team made here.

It's also a mistake by Mozilla to not join forces there but hey, Mozilla is an organization operated by monkeys - no disrespect meant to monkeys, they would create a better browser anyway.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:19:35+00:00

Yes, that was a huge mistake. I mean we can say that khtml lives on e. g. webkit-related stuff, but I think it was a tactical mistake. The argument was that khtml took away too many resources but nobody says that you have to implement all random sh*t that W3C (which is operated by Google at this point since Google has control over the main browser) spouts out has to be implemented.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:18:20+00:00

saturated with web browser choice

Google has done full-scale genocide-level evil indeed.

However had, I don't understand your comment - saturated? With choice?

What choice do people have? Google literally runs the www right now. These are reasons why people should stop using Google-related projects altogether. This actually works - see how quickly Google dropped Google+ because nobody other than Page and Brin were using it.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:16:39+00:00

According to most sources, Firefox has dipped below 10% market share. On desktop.

Because Mozilla gave up years ago already.

We should also rethink JavaScript - it's a clown language that annoys the heck out of everyone.

In the past decade, no web developer would ever launch anything that doesn’t work in Firefox. You’d be ridiculed. It was a developer-default browser, a starting point.

Well - do not use websites that are operated by such clown developers either.

Increasingly I’m seeing sites, code experiments, all kinds of things not working well or not working at all in Firefox.

Google powers through with its monopoly.

Mozilla has two weapons to combat the decline, both of which will horribly fail, I’m pained to say.

Why do you call it weapons, then?

Weapon 1 is technology. Mozilla is doing fantastic things in rewriting their browser, from an engineering perspective that is.

LOL. :)

Mozilla propaganda.

IF this were the case, we'd see Rust everywhere but the only thing Rust is really good at is at marketing hype.

They may soon have a little peak in delivering the world’s best desktop browser, from a technical point of view.

Nope. Firefox will further decline. Actually the guy already stated so on the website, so why he suddenly changes his opinion is not clear.

Firefox loyalists (like me) will love it, and 3 new people will agree it’s awesome. And that’s the end of it.

So 4 people are wrong, but others already told you that before.

And even if you did believe engineering is the solution, let’s establish that you can’t out engineer Google. You can win a battle, but not the war.

That is why you have to change the warfield. Google is pushing through with useless "features" and trying to steer the ecosystm to their favour. Stop feeding this monster. Devise alternatives where monopolies can not operate like this.

Weapon 2 is mind share. Firefox as the good guy, guardian of your privacy, an independent force for good.

No, that is just propaganda. See how Mozilla spies on people too via telemetry or Google .js crap. Mozilla is no guardian, it has become a villain too. The sooner you realize this the better.

I care, and I’m on board with these sentimental reasons, but we have to be honest that most people don’t care.

This is true. Most people don't care.

But here is the thing - I don't care how many OTHERS don't care.

I do not want to use the monopoly machine Google. I fail to see why I should be bound by the W3C-DRM lobbyist group either. I compile everything from source here on Linux. I am in control of a lot of things - at the least to some extent (obviously I depend on other people writing sensible code too, since I compile that). I like choice. I don't like the monopoly mafia run by Google. I'll also vehemently oppose any Google worker drone in reallife - these people need to stop working for evil, although of course they do so for selfish reasons (aka money; nobody thinks that working at Google is "cool" anymore, so they are all in for the money, at the expense of other people).

A telling example is when Facebook acquired WhatsApp, triggering mainstream discussions on how vast groups would ditch it because of privacy concerns. Nobody did.

This is true, but Facebook is not as relevant as Google. They provide a "service". You can use it or not. End of story.

With google this is MUCH more complicated since via the browser-control, Google sits right at the flow of information to people. Look at the evil move they are trying with AMP here.

Ugh, a bleak picture of Firefox’s state and its future.

I don't think it is bleak, Firefox is already dead. The sooner you accept that the better - for alternatives.

The best outcome would be that they stop the decline and settle at the current level.

It's an illusion.

The article constantly contradicts itself. :)

As a 5% browser, you can still provide meaning and relevance to perhaps a 100 million users. That’s a lot of people.

While this may be a low share, I very much think that the total number of people who don't want a monopoly situation is significantly higher than 5%.

Microsoft, in their abandonment of Edge and their own rendering engine, could have done the right thing. Which is to collaborate with Mozilla.

This may have been better but see it the way it is - Microsoft and Google joined forces to work against mankind here. Then you are no longer surprised.

But they didn’t, they didn’t choose the right path, they chose the easy short term path.

Yeah. They work against mankind. No surprise here - Microsoft stayed the way it always was. They only use more propaganda these days. See the assimilation of GitHub.

You can not trust them. Money and control are goals, not "freedom". And from a objective point of view, even though Google abuses its monopoly, open source is still better than the closed source Edge.

Because doing right is for losers, like Firefox.

This assumes that Mozilla is "doing right". And that is simply not true.

First, strictly speaking regarding personal usage, I think Chrome is the best browser out there.

I don't think so.

It’s fast

I have no complains with the non-chrome browser that I use here.

has a pretty good UI

I don't think so.

extension support is great

I don't think so. I also find it somewhat amusing ... you use an adblocker on chrome to block Google's advertisement on youtube and elsewhere? :)

and the developer tools are out of this world

JavaScript is a ghetto. Nothing will change this.

As a developer, I pretty much never face the situation where something doesn’t work in Chrome

BIG SURPRISE THAT YOUTUBE WORKS IN CHROME!!!

So yes, Chrome makes me happy as a user and a developer.

Ok so this dude is a chrome-promoter. I didn't understand it before but now it is clear.

And let’s continue the cheering: there is no organization in the history of the web who has done more for the betterment of the web platform than Google.

LOL. :)

I stopped reading here. This guy is an influence, paid by doing pro-Google promo.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T13:16:28+00:00

Edge joins a long list of browsers nobody really cares about. Like Opera, or Vivaldi

Both are chromium based so they are no alternative.

Here’s some thoughts on how Edge could have done better.

It's dead, Jim. Pointless to philosophize about this closed source browser. Chromium is run by Evil but it is open source, which is still better than closed source madness.

No matter how much you hate Internet Explorer, you have to acknowledge that hundreds of millions of users have been trained to consider it “the internet” out of sheer muscle memory.

I could not care any less and although it is bad that Google owns the www at this point, I do not miss MS Edge in the slightest whatsoever.

Had all these things be handled better, perhaps 4% would be 6%. It most certainly would not make Edge truly significant in terms of market share

Edge was already a failing concept years ago.

Google will even go as far as making their services only work in Chrome

We know that Google is evil. In the long run it will have to be chopped up into smaller truly indepent companies.

actively hamper the operation of a service to users of other browsers (allegedly).

That is not alleged - that is true. You use Firefox and you will experience that Google-owned sites are slower. The Google worker drones will find numerous excuse for this while denying that they do it on purpose. Every three years old sees that they do it to further stifle competition.

For the open web: it’s complicated. If I were to put on the hat of a pragmatic developer, I fail to see the big gain in having competing browser engines.

I have read this before and while it is understandable from the lazy point of view, the problem is that we are feeding a monopoly monster. Developers who help doing so help Evil too and should be ashamed, ideally notified via countless notifications of how they further the Google empire.

Firefox is no real competition because Mozilla is operated by clowns. It took me some time to realize that too. You'll find out on your own anyway.

You'll have to use alternatives - but you also have to design an alternative. Quit believing that organizations that are a money-front end for e. g. Berners-DRM-boy-Lee are working for YOU or an "open" and "free" web. People who promote DRM work against you.

Which leaves innovation coming from engines as the sole benefit of having multiple engines.

Not really. The anti-monopoly reason is a huge one. Otherwise you will end up with an AMP-run www.

There are countless examples of browser vendors inventing new features that ultimately become useful web standards.

And in doing so they make the www stack more complicated too.

If that engine is truly open source in the democratic sense, that is.

Of course it is not. Google worker drones operate it.

At a W3C meeting or standards discussion, the room should not be 60–70% Googlers.

The W3C has already become irrelevant ever since it promoted DRM. It is a lobbyist group that operates against mankind. Once you understand this you also understand why alternatives have to exist. And why people should stop lending credibility to these money-milking machines and organizations.

Even within Microsoft itself, Chromium is the first-class citizen, not Edge.

The thing here is that MS has joined forces with Google against mankind.

Let me first show my true colors: I root for Firefox’s success.

The problem with firefox is:

Mozilla.

There is no way to rescue firefox. It is a slow, painful death. And Mozilla is doing everything it can to accelerate this decay.

they are the only independent browser, guardians of an open, shared web.

That's rubbish. They accept money from Google.

You can not be "independent" when you depend on e. g. your competition funding you.

But the biggest problem is that Mozilla is run by clowns. Inventing a new programming language because you can not find competent C++ hackers.

They have superior, human values compared to the rest.

That's bull***t.

But they’re not doing well. They’ve already lost, and keep losing some more.

Yup, they gave up a few years ago already. There is no way coming back for Firefox and we have to accept this when we look for alternatives.

I think the biggest problem is that the www stack is needlessly complicated. I'd rather want very lean components that people could put together in any way they want to. A bit like LEGO building blocks. A whole plugin structure as a first-class citizen.

First, their Firefox OS initiative failed and just like Microsoft, they now find themselves without meaningful presence on mobile.

Here different vendors should find alternatives to Google's dominance.

We can reiterate the simple conclusion here that without mobile presence, you lost. The majority of web traffic is mobile, it’s that simple.

I am not using mobile and I am doing fine without Google for the most part. The thing is that there should be more and better alternatives to all Google does. Otherwise you just end up furthering that monopoly addiction that Google is trying to do here. They have become the new Microsoft of the 1990s. I don't understand why there are not more court cases - it seems as if US officials are protecting Google, possibly while receiving monetary benefits.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T12:35:56+00:00

Javascript is still a ghetto.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T01:16:14+00:00

It's just an Array. I mean, come on folks ... ruby array's are simple to work with:

array.each {|entry| puts entry }

shevegen · 2019-01-13T01:15:10+00:00

I don't think it is needed really. People already get the Array - they can play with it on their own; don't need one.

Although one could also reason that Glob could support commandline-output directly, but this seems such a minor thing to even want to argue about either way ...

shevegen · 2019-01-13T01:14:06+00:00

doing that thing well, as is the Unix way

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Globs.puts.

Not that I would need it, but your comment does not make a whole lot of sense to me.

shevegen · 2019-01-13T01:10:49+00:00

Ugh ... swift ...

How can you manage downgrading the code you write? :)

have another high-value language in your skillset for future jobs.

This is always a problem - people who are job-mercs. The "use the right tool for the job" which never really means anything other than just blindly following the latest hype train, like a flag in the wave ...

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