Look at the Design Guideline Docs!
Of course I read the docs before jumping into action if I have the opportunity and these are good. Like really good. As in I definitely think everyone should read them.
I'm seeing lot's of good stuff here.
Good Community Signs
So I connected with the Purism folks on Matrix after a false start there. I mentioned the content on communicating with them could use a bit of refinement and it went pretty well. A healthy discussion ensued and some changes are on the way.
To me this is a great …
Looking deeper into riot.im as a way into Matrix chat
Ah hah...
So the link on developer.puri.sm seems to be outdated, it points to the web app which is not what we need. There is a section for downloading the RIOT native app if you Google the app outside of Purism searches.
Here it is: RIOT app.
Registration …
Web Suitable Base64 in Python
So I was hacking away at JSON Web Tokens the other day and I came across an annoying bit of Python, which is strange as I usually love working in Python more than any other programming language. Apparently the Python base64 implementation is just fine for decoding base64 strings from …
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Purism: Getting in touch via Matrix chat
So I had previously sent a few emails about volunteering to no avail. Then I stumbled upon the developer guide which mentions Matrix chat, awesome. I figured I'll just pick up a client that supports registration and I'll get some advice on what is needed on the Librem 5 project …
Some notes on Pelican themes
Note
The Pelican theme I started with was pretty dirty, ads injected, a not so nice redirect in an .htaccess file, hardcoded tracking and social media nonsense (I cleaned it all out before publishing anything). I'm all for supporting poor, starving UI devs, but really just knock it off.
How I built this blog
Why blog?
Introductionish
So I'm getting to a place in my life where I can start working on open source projects again and I think I've picked some interesting ones to get involved in so blog time.
The primary project I'd like to start working on is the Librem 5 project. A …
First post
It works!
