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crypticwyrm

@crypticwyrm

Software developer, book enthusiast, connoisseur of black coffee - with lots of milk and a pinch of sugar

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Feb 23, 2019, 12:00 AM UTC

My thoughts on Svelte - The magical disappearing UI framework

A few months ago I've made a Mastodon account (that I haven't really been using since I tried to stay off social media and focus on work for a while, and I also prefer the fully decentralized Secure…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Feb 15, 2019, 11:39 AM UTC

iftool - Live Interactive Fiction Development Environment

I've been playing around with ideas for interactive fiction creation tools for many years, even more so when multiple choice interactive fiction, the digital equivalent of those old choose your own a…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 6, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

Do you use the Brave browser on Linux? Make your voice heard to make Widevine support a priority

Linux users of the privacy focused Open Source Brave browser have been asking about Widevine support since at least 2016, but even in the new Chromium based version of Brave that replaced the old Muo…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 5, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC

Flare - "Insanely Fast Vector Animation for Apps, Games and Web" announced at Flutter Live

The Flutter Live conference was yesterday, a conference all about Google's Flutter UI toolkit for Android and iOS (and soon for desktop and web) using Google's Dart programming language. One of the a…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 4, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

Movim - Federated Open Source social media platform welcomes Tumblr refugees

Tumblr recently announced they will ban all adult content from their platform starting December 17th, a move that has surprised many people because Tumblr has become a bit infamous as a platform for…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 4, 2018, 7:51 PM UTC

Microsoft releases WPF, Windows Forms and WinUI for .NET Core as MIT licensed Open Source

One thing that was still missing from the Open Source release of .NET via .Net Core was an open source version of Microsoft's GUI projects WPF, Windows Forms and WinUI, which Microsoft has now done a…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 4, 2018, 6:37 PM UTC

How to write software if you're blind

As a programmer I stare at a screen almost all day every day and have done so almost my entire life, starting at age 5 with playing games and then moving on to programming at age 8. The most importan…

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@crypticwyrm Dec 4, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

Cool Retro Term - A terminal emulator with retro CRT look for macOS and Linux

Ever wanted to experience what is was like playing the Zork text adventure back in the day? Modern computers just don't give you that experience that an old CRT monitor gave you, old games looked a l…

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@crypticwyrm Dec 4, 2018, 12:42 PM UTC

Rumor: Microsoft is working on Chromium based replacement for Edge

The blog Windows Central reports that sources have told them Microsoft is working on a Chromium based replacement for Microsoft's Edge web browser, with the codename "Anaheim", and has already been s…

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crypticwyrm
@crypticwyrm Dec 2, 2018, 9:39 PM UTC

Flutter for desktop announced, a competitor to Electron?

Flutter is a great tool from Google to write native apps that run on both iOS and Android. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a language that is so similar to JavaScript that you can pick it up in an…

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