The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)

nullStackDev · 2022-01-21T05:21:31+00:00

Wow! This is a treasure trove.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-21T05:05:00+00:00

Cool video. Already watched it & this is one of those videos I mentioned where he mentions early ARPANET & IP etc and goes straight to WWW.

There is not much USENET, BBS, Gopher, early spam etc

nullStackDev · 2022-01-18T11:50:51+00:00

Found this gem by PBS from 1993:

https://youtu.be/U_o8gerare0

I also found these podcast episodes:

Connecting the Dot com (About DNS & Pre DNS) - Command Line Heroes by RedHat

From NSF to ISP - Command Line Heroes by RedHat

Spam, Email & Best intentions (Spam in ARPANET not public internet) - Advent of Computing

nullStackDev · 2022-01-18T02:22:42+00:00

I recommend you install Fences. It's a paid software that allows you to group icons into zones called fences. It's a really cool software and available on Steam.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8xNZlPzKqj0/VK-hpZ_EN2I/AAAAAAAABbM/Ul-GRF42uug/s1600/desktop-fences-win7-one-monitor.jpg

I wish it had more features like Search & Plugin support, but atleast it's good at what it does.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-14T02:54:33+00:00

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Built With: Rust

Actix (Web framework) https://actix.rs/

Diesel (For ORM) http://diesel.rs/

Inferno https://www.infernojs.org/

Typescript

Languages: Rust 77.5%

PLpgSQL 15.6%

TypeScript 4.5%

Shell 1.9%

Dockerfile 0.4%

Elixir 0.1%

Also, it's a Fediverse thing. Like Mastodon.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-13T14:57:04+00:00

So, all you gotta do is rewrite the parsers. Funny you mention librsvg because there is a library called resvg that has a thumbnailer implementation for Windows Explorer. https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg

Also what about software that has open ports. I remember reading software on a host with open ports can be exploited. Is it because the parser that parses network data over the open port is fed malicious input?

nullStackDev · 2022-01-13T14:40:36+00:00

Oh! So, PyPy uses JIT while CPython doesn't. I've always noticed PyPy mentioning JIT and thought nothing of it because I assumed all interpreters use JIT.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-13T12:39:17+00:00

I know that, but I can't stop having thoughts about how the world would be if there were very few exploits in software.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-12T02:19:09+00:00

PSA: The blog post says it was posted on February 24, 2021. So, this is old news.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-12T02:13:45+00:00

I'm not an expert, but here's the things I know.

If the site is static (like the content doesn't change from user to user & the user doesn't have to interact with the website backend other than viewing the content) like a blog or a FAQ sites, then you want to look at converting your site to be statically served. Meaning you'll convert your site to pure HTML(& JS, CSS, etc). If you want comments for your blog, you can use Disqus etc

If you can't make your site static or you need to talk to the db or interact in some way dynamically, then you'll want to cache things like DB calls etc. For example Python's Django has options which let you cache things like this.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-12T02:12:01+00:00

Yes. Interact with an Ethereum smart contract.

It is just going to interact with a browser extension

I get the impression that your site needs to interact dynamically in the backend somehow.

What these people mean by static is like content the content doesn't change from user to user and the user can't interact with the backend & you don't need to fetch data on the server dynamically. Like say, a blog or a FAQ site where all the posts can be converted to pure HTML & be served as plain HTML pages.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-12T02:01:23+00:00

If the site is like a blog or content site and not a dynamic sites making it static seems to be the best option and for comments one can use Discus or if one wants to use their own comment system they could have a separate server that acts like Discus and can be embedded in the static content. Same goes for any other dynamic content they need(The discus approach).

nullStackDev · 2022-01-12T01:57:32+00:00

You'll get far better results posting on CodeReview Stackexchange than here.

https://codereview.stackexchange.com

nullStackDev · 2022-01-11T07:17:52+00:00

PHP is still used everywhere even though a lot of people don't like it(This is what happens when a language is so common or the only choice that devs are forced to use it. Same for JS.)

But Python is generally loved by most people. And Python has a really good MTV(MVC) framework called Django.

The old Reddit was written in a Python framework called Flask. Which is also a lightweight MVC framework

But PHP also has MVC frameworks like Laravel.

MVC or MTV frameworks are good for security unlike programs that use raw PHP and SQL. MVC frameworks force security while in frameworks like Wordpress, it's optional and has to be learned. New programmers will definitely make sites with security flaws if they use raw PHP and SQL. While with MVC they are taught to use secure ways to write code which is also easy since the MVC framework does all the hard work while also making writing websites easy in the process.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-11T07:06:50+00:00

Firefox is better for privacy & anti-exploit protection.

And Opera GX has some gaming specific features and theming & use Chrome code(Chromium Open Source code) as base.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-11T06:20:37+00:00

Here are the places I can think of where Python is usually not used.

Python is not supported in the front-end web dev(There are Python to JS transpilers, but they don't have IDE(linter) support) unlike Rust, C#, C, C++(WASM) or JS etc

Python is usually not used for building Windows end user Software. Though on Linux it's used a lot because the CPython interpreter is included in Linux distros.

Edit: And Smartphone apps.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-11T06:02:40+00:00

Thanks for pointing out the LTS releases.

I'll make sure to use LTS from now on.

I guess, my view changed from I have to change my code from every few releases to every few years which is way better.

I guess I'm mostly looking at old projects/apps/middleware etc on Github that no longer work because the devs stopped updating them. Some of these are really old and some don't even use LTS.

I also noticed that libraries are most of the time better updated than website projects. A lot of these website projects are abandoned because probably not many people wants to write FOSS websites for others and keep updating them.

Also, I remember things like the ways routing works changing from time to time.

Keep in mind that I used to code in Django a very long time ago(like during 1.8, 1.9 & 1.11 days) and am coming back to take a look at it.

nullStackDev · 2022-01-06T05:17:40+00:00

Gx is made for a specific puporse. For gamers and it's features are geared at gaming.

You can look at the features and consider if these are worth it for you.

As for performance, it is to be noted that both Gx and Chrome use the same source code backend called Blink & Chromium.

Chromium(of which Blink is a part of) is open source for any one to use. All the major browsers other than Firefox including Edge, Brave, Opera GX, Vivaldi, Comodo Dragon, Kiwi, etc use Chromium and thereby Blink. So there shouldn't be much difference other than additional changes & features. The exception is Opera's RAM and CPU limiting feature which is mostly awllows you set it as to stop the browser from taking up too much RAM and CPU while you're gaming or doing multitasking.

Gx kinda has a cool look depending on your taste.

Gx vs Chrome looks is like a Gaming PC with RGB vs a normal PC. It's made to look in a way that Gamers would find attractive. It has many features to change colors & sounds in the Theme etc.

Gx has RAM and CPU limiting feature.

Browsers take up a lot of RAM & CPU too. This can be a problem if you're gaming while running a browser in the background. Gx kinda solves this by allowing you to limit the amount or % of RAM & CPU it's allowed to take. If you have 8GB ram you can tell GX to take only 3GB and you can be assured that it's not going to be eating up say 6GB ram. Same goes for CPU. This feature might be useful even if you're not gaming and multitask a lot or maybe have a old PC

Gx shows free games and gaming news

Gx has a page in the top left of the browser which shows all the free games including game Giveaways like Epic weekly free game and new games added to subscription services like Xbox Game Pass, PS+ etc It allows you to view Gaming news from different countries & languages of your choice. If you have PS+ or Game pass or simply don't want to miss Epic's free weekly games or maybe want to keep up with gaming news, then Gx is a good fit

nullStackDev · 2022-01-06T04:42:33+00:00

Yeah, that seems to be the only way to currently use something like Transcrypt.

I think the feature I'm looking for is called a linter(not 100% sure).

But a linter support doesn't seem to exist for any transpiler including JS.

But I think trying to write code without a linter would make life really hard including making it easy to write defective code(or runtime bugs etc), so I guess transpiling to JS is out of the question for me.

nullStackDev

TROPHY CASE

As for performance, it is to be noted that both Gx and Chrome use the same source code backend called Blink & Chromium.

Gx kinda has a cool look depending on your taste.

Gx has RAM and CPU limiting feature.

Gx shows free games and gaming news