Somebody is going to become a writer 😁, Really good read check it out. Very Lovecraftian it will leave you wanting more like

what's up with the weird library, 🙈
what did it mean by "self-discovery" (at the suspicious paths), 🤔
there is a time-machine 😳,
what's up with "The Diggers", and
finally yeah art club people are weird 😁

A nice article about how Visual Basic came about, dominated the application programming space and slowly faded into obscurity with a mix corporate conflicts between engineers and mangers.

Really cool read! I liked it very much and the website looks gorgeous 🤩. Fun fact the first script i ever wrote was a .vbs file the creates a message box

msgbox "Hello World!"

https://retool.com/visual-basic/

A week is 2% of the year.

የጣሊያን ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር በኢትዮጵያ ይፋዊ የሥራ ጉብኝት ሊያደርጉ ነው

አዲስ አበባ ፣ ሚያዝያ 4 ፣ 2015 (ኤፍ ቢ ሲ) የጣሊያን ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ጆርጂያ ሜሎኒ በኢትዮጵያ ይፋዊ የሥራ ጉብኝት ሊያደርጉ ነው።

ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሯ በኢትዮጵያ በሚኖራቸው የሁለት ቀን ቆይታ ከመንግስት እና ከአፍሪካ ሕብረት ከፍተኛ የሥራ ኃላፊዎች ጋር እንደሚወያዩ ይጠበቃል።

https://www.fanabc.com/archives/188933

third time's the charm 😁

I don't know what this is or how it started but I love it.

(be on the look out for famous take personalities in the video)

https://twitter.com/azlenelza/status/1644789222082244613

How the turn tables 😂

I noticed some annoying things when i was trying to implement this thing

1. It is not regular OAuth it is kind of weird. You need to add a srcipt tag that links to a file called telegram-widget.js when that script runs it creates an iframe inside your page which contains the "Login with Telegram" button. Due to some security reasons around using iframes the website needs to be hosted to work (it doesn't work on localhost) 😕. I got around this issue by using ngrok.

2. You need a bot to implement this feature and your bot needs to be connected to the domain name you hosted your website at. The annoying part of this is that you can't programmatically set the domain name you have to go into @botfather and do /setdomain to manually change it every time. (this was especially annoying to me because `ngrok` generates a random domain every time you use it)
But on the bright side you probably won't need to change it after you deployed your app so ...

Finally i think it would be nice if they properly implemented the OAuth spec but it works and we can use it.

BTW I am storing your data (everything telegram tells me about you when you log in) if you choose to try out the page the following is the data i am storing.

CREATE TABLE users (
  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  username VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
  auth_date INTEGER NOT NULL,
  first_name TEXT NULL,
  last_name TEXT NULL,
  photo_url TEXT NULL
);

[code] [website]

🔴 LIVE NOW Starship Flight Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QXreqOrTA

something went wrong no launch today 😢

Postponed to Thursday (April 20, 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI

Update on The Whole Rust Trademark Policy Fiasco

The foundation released a blog as they promised to do so and here are the main parts

Section 1: The Good Parts

1. They apologized for not being transparent enough
"Rust Trademark Policy should have been more transparent and we apologize for that"

2. They acknowledged the problems and the policy is going to be rewritten
"It is already clear that there are many valid critiques of the initial draft. We will address those critiques in the next version of the policy."

Section 2: The Concerning Parts

3. What about the Community
"We want to reiterate that we will not put any policy into effect until we have something that both the Rust Foundation and Rust Project leadership are satisfied with."

4. The community should be informed but they don't need to be satisfied ?
"The Rust Foundation, Rust Project Directors, and Trademark Working Group will work together to ensure that the community is as informed as possible as we work towards implementing necessary feedback. "

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-trademark-policy-draft-revision-next-steps/

What happened to GitHub?

Are they doing an A/B test on a new UI or did they roll it out to everybody?

EP2 got released yesterday night and the Lovecraftian Horror level went up to a hundred with this one.

Find it here