mu
mtpng
Our great sponsors
mu | mtpng | |
---|---|---|
29 | 3 | |
1,341 | 200 | |
- | - | |
4.3 | 0.0 | |
3 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
Assembly | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mu
-
Damn Small Linux 2024
Depending on how minimal a distribution you want, a few years ago I had a way to take a single ELF binary created by my computing stack built up from machine code (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) and package it up with just a linux kernel and syslinux (whatever _that_ is) to create a bootable disk image I could then ship to a cloud server (https://akkartik.name/post/iso-on-linode, though I don't use Linode anymore these days) and run on a VPS to create a truly minimal webserver. If this seems at all relevant I'd be happy to answer questions or help out.
-
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu by Ed Jorgensen
This was the thinking behind my https://github.com/akkartik/mu
- Show HN: FocusedEdit – a classic Macintosh to web browser shared text editor
-
Plain Text. With Lines
Yes thank you, I was indeed alluding to https://github.com/akkartik/mu. Perhaps a more precise term would be "software stack".
-
Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems
I built a computer with its own languages, and I consider it to be _less_ cognitive load when everything is in 1/2/3 languages. I don't have to worry that the next program I want to read the sources will require "Go, Rust, C++, JS/TS, Python, Java, etc."
There are other metrics to consider besides your notions of cognitive load and productivity. Inferno predates most of the languages on your list. My computer (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) uses custom languages because I was able to design them to minimize total LoC, and to ensure the dependency graph has no cycles (unlike all of the conventional software stack, at least until https://www.gnu.org/software/mes connects up all the dots).
- Llisp: Lisp in Lisp
-
10 Years Against Division of Labor in Software
"Separation of concerns is a hard-won insight."
Absolutely. I'm arguing for separating just concerns, without entangling them with considerations of people.
It's certainly reasonable to consider my projects toy. I consider them research:
* https://github.com/akkartik/mu
* https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
"The idea that projects should take source copies instead of library dependencies is just kind of nuts..."
The idea that projects should take copies seems about symmetric to me with taking pointers. Call by value vs call by reference. We just haven't had 50 years of tooling to support copies. Where would we be by now if we had devoted equal resources to both branches?
"...at least for large libraries."
How are these large libraries going for ya? Log4j wasn't exactly a shining example of the human race at its best. We're trying to run before we can walk.
-
My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.
https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.
-
Simplicity of IRC
This was my attempt at providing easy graphics to kids inspired by the BBC Micro: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/main/shell
Here's a 6-minute demo: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-06-09
Requires Qemu, though. And no sound yet, unfortunately. I'd love contributions there or elsewhere.
-
Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong
Thanks for all the quotes. This one's my favorite of them, I think. I've chatted with you in the past, and I think we largely see eye to eye. I love LP! I still use it. Here's an x86 VM I maintained for several years: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/main/linux/bootstrap. This (old) essay is merely thoughts on _how_ to do LP. We have some disagreement there, but I hope you'll agree that it's mild in the large scheme of things.
mtpng
-
Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Are you required to use PNG or could you save the files in an alternative lossless format [1]? If you're stuck with PNG, mtpng [2] mentioned earlier seems to be significantly faster with multithreading (>40% reduction in encoding times). If you're publishing for web, cwebp might also be a possibility with -mt (multithreading) and -q 25 (lower compression and larger filesize but faster) flags.
[1] https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/148231/what-imag...
What are some alternatives?
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
collapseos - Bootstrap post-collapse technology
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
librope - UTF-8 rope library for C
teliva - Fork of Lua 5.1 to encourage end-user programming
single-spa - The router for easy microfrontends
Etar Calendar - Android open source calendar
innernet - A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.
kaldi-gstreamer-server - Real-time full-duplex speech recognition server, based on the Kaldi toolkit and the GStreamer framwork.
Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit - kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.