I just finished working on Soudan, a Rust-based comment
system!
It’s now live on all posts on this site, feel free to give it a
go in the comments at the bottom of the page! Markdown formatting
is supported. If you submit your email address, it won’t be public,
and is only used to display your Gravatar, if you have one.
Soudan is named after the word 相談 in Japanese, which means
discussion or consultation.
The source code is available on GitHub here my Gogs instance here under the GNU …
In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to set up, install, and
configure a Firefox PWA
(Progressive Web Application) for Discord that integrates into your
system, and some background on why you’d want to do so over the
regular desktop version. I’ve tested these steps on Arch Linux and
Xubuntu 20.04.
Background
If you’ve ever used Discord on Linux, you probably know that it
is clunky and not nearly as polished or feature-complete as it is
on, say, Windows.
There are a lot of tools that are, for the most part, only used
in the programming sphere that could do a lot of good if they
received adoption among the wider non-technical community. Git and
Markdown especially. Version control is useful to anyone who works
on text files and needs to be able to revert back to a previous
version, and Markdown is a simple and succinct way to format simple
text documents — especially compared with Microsoft Office.