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by 4fips 1y ago
Yeah, I was waiting for the DS1525+, but after it was announced and the HD restrictions were confirmed, I eventually decided to buy the DS1522+ instead.
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by 4fips 1y ago
The only browser bookmark I use is: javascript:window.prompt("Title + URL:",document.title+"\n"+document.URL); Which when clicked, opens an alert with 2 lines like this: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keepi
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by 4fips 2y ago
The initial version of my online Numeric Base Converter ( https://apps.4fips.com/nubco/ ) was done in a day, mostly to try out Rust + egui. The app hasn't changed much since then, and I no longer have to search for
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by 4fips 3y ago
No so long ago, around 2012 :), I was still using my Psion 3c + a short OPL program, to trigger my hacked time lapse camera over serial line. It worked quite reliably for years. https://forums.4fips.com/viewtopic.php?t=717
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by 4fips 4y ago
Thank you!
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by 4fips 4y ago
Here's mine: https://www.4fips.com (mostly tech topics, random projects & photography, basically anything I find interesting at the moment, I've been maintaining this page for many years)
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by 4fips 4y ago
Yeah, for example passing such an opaque typedef as const is a common trap and very often source of surprise (even for the author of the API), something like: struct Opaque { int data; }; typedef Opaque *OpaqueRef;
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by 4fips 5y ago
Yeah, I would like to see that behavior as an option, or even better allow to select the whole UI as a block of text (to feel natural and be searchable on the web). I belive any UI (incl. native) should not prevent you from copying any text
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by 4fips 5y ago
Text in labels and other controls is not selectable (unfortunately), in this regard egui behaves as a native app, so mostly just editable texts are selectable. This feels a bit unnatural on the web, but one must consider that egui uses a cu
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by 4fips 5y ago
Yeah, I believe accessibility is not addressed at all. Similarly when compiler for web, it would be great if the UI would actually behave as text (actual web page) and could be copied into the clipboard etc.
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by 4fips 5y ago
I'm using it for some of my little tools, and it's pretty seamless going between native and web, which I appreciate a lot, and unlike other non-native UI frameworks, navigating through egui feels pretty natural (the way input are
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by 4fips 5y ago
At least C is a complete language and a solid building block which is possible to reason about, compared to C++ which is becoming more and more bloated in a modernization attempt, so C++ projects need to be constantly updated and rewritten
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by 4fips 6y ago
Linked lists become really powerful and performant when implemented as intrusive containers, such containers do not need to live on heap and can be embedded directly into another data structures, so an element can be linked into multiple co
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by 4fips 7y ago
Thanks!
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by 4fips 7y ago
Hehe, thank you!
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by 4fips 7y ago
Here is mine: https://www.4fips.com (mostly tech topics, random projects & photography, basically anything I find interesting at the moment)