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I think porting a native app to Android should be considered cruel and unusual punishment

PSA: .jfif files are literally just JPEG files: JFIF is one of the two common standards for storing JPEG images, the other being EXIF. if you rename the file to .jpg or .jpeg, every app that understands JPEG will open it. Windows just picked a weird file extension for some reason

like a child who has somehow not learned that fire is hot, I keep posting about programming topics with a wide audience on twitter

if the Rust project blows up tomorrow and the language fossilises like C has, I'll still be very happy with it and use it for most of my code. C was the unmaintained language for the last half-century, Rust can be the unmaintained language for the next.

a special online safety warning from twitter user hikari_no_yume

"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" is a fun story to listen to. i can't vouch for the accuracy but it was interesting at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

you gotta admire the common practice of distributing Mac software in .dmg files. tar and ZIP suck in various ways, they're bad filesystems. why not ship your software in a good filesystem? and so, Mac software is shipped inside a tiny Mac filesystem (HFS+ or, these days, APFS)

gonna do something i haven't done in far too long: super monkey ball speedrunning :3

test one: like this post if you saw it in your timeline directly, without clicking through from another post or from my profile

I hope the current Rust drama doesn't kill the idea of compile-time reflection, because the ecosystem's reliance on re-parsing the source code in procedural macros is one of my least favourite things