while waiting for the concert I started going over an O'Reilly book designed to get older fashioned C++ users up to speed on later revisions and, well, it prompts a question. a #poll question that I will preface by saying: there's basically no question of employability here, I can't imagine that I will ever be working in software ever again, though it might be good to keep up with languages commonly used in open-source codebases. So, #C++
Should I bother?

#Google Rewrites Critical #C Dependencies to #Rust Using #AI and Differential Fuzzing

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/c-rust-rewrite/

#vintage #programming #c

This adds a static bitmap background.
critically, I finally got my 20 year old code together and it now properly generates a mask that's 1 pixel thicker than the sprite itself. And all that, working with multiple animation frames. All bundled in an E-Z to use function.

Wearing my Dennis M. Ritchie tee shirt today.

#unix #c

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Picture of a mid-fifties Unix geek, bald, grey beard, with glasses, wearing a tee shirt with an image of Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie wearing a suit and tie and looking off to his right with a wild grin on his face.

Welcome to the on going saga of our Hero's quest to find employment as a (backend) Software Developer. At this moment our Hero contemplates navel lint his dire plight. He scans the online landscape and job boards for signs of employers.

He can wield #C with extreme delicacy & finesse; compose functional code of #Erlang; use #Java, #Javascript, #NodeJS adeptly. Even understand the arcana of #Forth and has constructed a #RabbitMQ cluster with careful planning.

Yet our intrepid Hero is passed by again and again, like last year's Xmas toys. None glance in his direction as he rises from his chair to play with his faithful dog, Clicquot. Maybe tomorrow will yield new mysteries.

http://www.snert.com/resume/

#GetFediHired #FediHire

Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.

What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster

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snac2 sending push notifications to a user via MastoBlaster App on iPhone