This is an update on the development of Flirt. Previous posts: Announcing Development on Flirt Flirt: The Native Backend It's been a while since the last post. I was focused on my thesis, which I handed in on August 1st 🥳 I managed to get comment threads basically working and implemented backends for GitHub and mailing lists. These features are limited and buggy in several ways. But I think…
This is an update on the development of Flirt. Make sure to read the announcement post before this one, otherwise it won't make sense: Announcing Development on Flirt . According to the roadmap, my goal for December and January was: Develop a reasonably detailed specification of the feature set, taking care to support a broad variety of backends while keeping the user experience across…
I've started working on Flirt, which stands for "Fabulous, Legendary, Incremental Review Tool". Firstly, what is it and why might you be interested in it? It avoids the need to review the same code multiple times when the code author amends or rebases their commits. This is relevant for people who value good commit history and see it as something to be iterated on during code review.…
I recently got into Linux kernel development by rewriting a driver from C to Rust. To support this driver, I needed to add Rust abstractions for kernel APIs written in C. Some of this work is making its way upstream and now seems like a good time to write about that experience. Because I was a noob when I started (and mostly still am), this post should be pretty approachable for people who…
Have you ever wanted to show off your beautiful terminal output in a markdown file? Simply copying the text into a raw block will result in bland, colorless text. Including a screenshot on the other hand is bloated and hard to maintain, in case the content changes. I recently found a nice solution, so let me tell you about it! Here's a sneak-peak of the end result: . r w - r -- r -- @ 3 remo…