Thomas Boutell

Proud of my work on PNG. 24 years is a good run! But now that Apple has finally adopted WebP, there is a superior replacement for both JPEG and PNG. With Microsoft ditching IE11 support on their own sites on August 17th, it's time to start moving on. 🍺💧 ct'd

@tswain555 @_trish_xD I hear that!

@boutell @_trish_xD Hi Thomas; I think I have gotten a few of those books sold the past couple of years. I remember when that book came out; one of those Eureka moments. I just love C for the sake of C ^^

If you're serious about backend, go deep: • Read source code, not just docs • Break things intentionally • Learn C before the next framework • Understand the kernel, not just the API • Build something from scratch, no tutorials • Debug at the system level • Ditch the abstraction for a week Random low-level experiments today will become your unfair advantage tomorrow.

@tswain555 @_trish_xD LOL! Always happy to see my book pop up, but please don't write CGI in C (or Perl 4) except as an exercise in retrocomputing 😀 Today I do tons of backend... just about always in Node.js. "Big O" notation says you will *very* rarely need C.

@_trish_xD Get this book from Thomas Boutell. @boutell

@Sanghera__Aman I've experienced a few LED bulbs failing, but I can't remember ever breaking the plastic.

Theres no chance that an LED light bulb helps the environment. It saves power but its a POS that is made of plastic that lasts a year. The incandescent was glass and lasted forever. Feels like a scam.

@Sanghera__Aman The "Scan" button in the Google Drive smartphone app is pretty good honestly. Don't miss the "+" button for adding additional pages after the first one. But yeah, I miss being able to justify having a self-feeding scanner around too.

The thing I miss most about an office is when you out some papers in the printer and press 1 button and the scan comes to my email.

@apostrophecms This is our most exciting release in a while, and that's part of the plan. Layout is cool, but we're building up to "layout++" — a combination of user-friendly layout and styling tools we haven't seen in a modern open source CMS before.

Release day! ApostropheCMS 4.23.0 is out (and it's a good one). LAYOUT is now in core, a new widget that offers an in-context layout building experience. Drag'em, drop'em, stretch'em, hide'em on mobile. Check out the preview. youtu.be/ppFdc0NfIWY

@WalterBright It's much too soon! This article in Dr. Dobb's discussing a compiler with the forward declarations feature was published in 1997. Can't go rushing in... jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articl…

@Checkmarx Who can I talk to regarding a vulnerability report on your site that may be inaccurate? Thanks.

Correction: I was confused because "Registration" itself is a link, but also drops down a menu with just the FAQ on it, so it didn't occur to me to click directly on it.

@Katsucon Hi! The "registration" dropdown takes you to a FAQ that does not include the actual registration page. Google finds the actual registration page, and registration does seem to be available, so I assume something is not quite right. Just FYI

@tswain555 Hi Tony, I don't deal with the C level of things very often anymore, but I'd be very surprised if good ol' libpng didn't build happily on just about anything. Mad props to the maintainers. libpng.org/pub/png/libpng…

Peeps; Thomas Boutell is among the leading PNG experts IMO. :) Hi Thomas @boutell. I was wondering; I want to load and image into my raster. Is there a PNG lib you would recommend that I can compile &| link with COFF/mingw64?

Anyway, thanks for the show, and thanks for reading if you got this far. FWIW, I logged into the hellsite for the first time in months just to drop you a line. 😂

Even if adhering to the spirit limits the scale of what companies can do and it takes longer for things to happen, the spirit under which everybody else contributed to that OS you're selling matters. Community matters, in open source, even for corporations.

@CoderRadioShow Love the show, learn something new every time. But I can't quite figure out why you keep downplaying Red Hat's legal maneuvers to get around the GPL. I am sincerely scratching my head about it and finally couldn't resist reaching out.