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Glimmer Ecosystem, Glimte 3rd Party Framework, PasswordStore

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Traditionally, Glimmer GUI gems have been mostly a one-sided effort. Well, that changes with Glimte! Glimte is a 3rd party framework built on top of Glimmer (Tk flavor) by Phaengris to facilitate following a certain flavor of the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller) called MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). It encourages a model of programming for desktop GUI views that is similar to Rails .erb. A Linux password manager is built with it as a Ruby GUI app called PasswordStore.

#AskFirefox host Chenae Moore on internet pranks and losing sleep over recipe videos

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#AskFirefox host Chenae Moore on internet pranks and losing sleep over recipe videos

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. […]

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Applied Pokology: Applied Pokology – Interesting poke idiom: sparse tables

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During tonight poke online office hours our friend hdzki
came with an interesting use case. He is poking at some
binary structures that are like sparse tables whose entries
are distributed in the file in an arbitrary way.

Each sparse table is characterized by an array of
consecutive non-NULL pointers. Each pointer points to an
entry in the table. The table entries can be anywhere in
the IO space, and are not necessarily consecutive, nor be in
order.

This is Microsoft’s new modern File Explorer overhaul for Windows 11

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As was revealed a handful of weeks ago, Microsoft is currently working on a significant update to File Explorer on Windows 11 that will update several core areas of the app with modern designs and new features that will better integrate the experience with OneDrive and Microsoft 365. The home page itself is being updated with more integration with Microsoft 365. Along the top will be a feed of “recommended” files, which will be presented with larger thumbnails that will make it easier to see what files are being suggested to you. That’s a lot of excuses for ads.