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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? in c/programming

[–] webbureaucrat 1 points 1 week ago

I'd think they'd get it back by not having to share their ad rev with Google. There's something to be said for the economies of scale Google benefits from but with cloud services that's not as relevant as it was.

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Any advice on picking a Python language server for emacs? (self.python)

submitted 1 week ago by webbureaucrat to c/python

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Hi, folks!

I'd like to set up my emacs with lsp-mode and lsp-ui, but I am finding myself in some analysis paralysis. Ruling out the Palantir language server because it's deprecated and because it's Palantir, that still leaves me with five language server recommendations from lsp-mode.

Anybody have any opinions they'd like to share? Any really bad experiences I should avoid? How do I configure your favorite? (Feel free to assume I know very little about configuring emacs.)

If it makes a difference, I am a poetry user and a religious mypy --strict user.

Thanks in advance!

Favorite FOSS Android Apps for a De-Googled Phone in c/opensource

[–] webbureaucrat 2 points 1 week ago

I live on Termux. I love being able to write software in my own custom emacs configuration from my phone.

Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? in c/programming

[–] webbureaucrat 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll give my usual contribution to RSS feed discourse, which is that, news flash! RSS feeds support video!

It drives me crazy when podcasters are like, "thanks for listening to our audio podcasts. We also have a video feed for our YouTube subscribers." Just let me have the video in PocketCasts please!

XHTML 1.0 Transitional parser? in c/rust

[–] webbureaucrat 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wish I could be more help. My advice is you need a better grade of general purpose HTML parsing library, possibly even a browser emulator, rather than a lib specifically for XHTML 1.0 transitional or a converter.

In my Python web automation course in college we used BeautifulSoup and I think maybe mechanize. I think either of those would probably be robust enough to do what you’re trying to do, but if it has to be Rust I’m not sure what’s out there. Otherwise you could upgrade to Selenium or something.

Or if you’re trying to do something fairly simple and you don’t need to parse the whole thing but it’s still a little too complex for plain old regular expressions, you might be able to build a simple parser with the rust pest crate, but of course I would absolutely not recommend trying to build your own full-featured XHTML parser.