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  1. A quotation from John Adams

    The substance and essence of Christianity as I understand it is eternal and unchangeable and will bear examination forever but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients which I think will not bear examination and they ought to be separated

    John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
    Letter (1825-01-23) to Thomas Jefferson

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/84580/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #Christianity #cruft #dross #purification #puritanism #religion #superstition

  2. Investigating the conversion between and enabled projects to and

    This investigation is almost done and will modernize our Python template.

  3. Big tech #cruft is something we've all gotten used to, along with all the other #enshittification. But which product has the WORST cruft? (comment if your one isn't in the list) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft

  4. Big tech #cruft is something we've all gotten used to, along with all the other #enshittification. But which product has the WORST cruft? (comment if your one isn't in the list) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft

  5. The joys of self hosting. Got a call about a #mailbounce, realised that the #DominExpired because the credit card had expired. Why no alert? The mail account the alert was sent to had been decommissioned years ago #cruft
    Now I get to play #mailcatchup as the rest of the #interwebs #DNS #caches refresh

  6. SpdLog seems nice. Replaced log4cpp with that in a non trivial application. It looked like log4cpp has been more or less abandoned. Lots of fun to modernize this thing which hasn’t been touched since 2016. All kinds of pretty weird dependencies also makes it interesting. But logging is sorted out now. Also moving from boost:: to std:: for things that have been moved there over the years. Maybe it’s also time to upgrade the used C++ standard from C++11 to something newer.

    #cpp #porting #cruft

  7. SpdLog seems nice. Replaced log4cpp with that in a non trivial application. It looked like log4cpp has been more or less abandoned. Lots of fun to modernize this thing which hasn’t been touched since 2016. All kinds of pretty weird dependencies also makes it interesting. But logging is sorted out now. Also moving from boost:: to std:: for things that have been moved there over the years. Maybe it’s also time to upgrade the used C++ standard from C++11 to something newer.

    #cpp #porting #cruft