New account, new #intro post.

My name is Zef. I’m #Dutch, but for the last 15 years have been living in #Poland. I’m married and have three sons.

I’m the #CTO at fixly.pl, a Polish services (handymen etc.) reverse market place. I also write alt.management.

As a hobby, for close to 4 years, I’ve been developing @silverbulletmd a #selfhosted #OpenSource #markdown based note taking app that is programmable with #Lua. I’m currently finding ways to make spending more time on #SilverBullet financially sustainable as its user base has been growing significantly over the years.

In addition, I’m increasingly interested in the #selfhosting community, looking for more ways to break away from #BigTech and to gain more #DigitalSovereignity by regaining control and ownership of the digital assets I care about.

just updated litehug to include examples for using it from #lua for #sqlite queries

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/litehug

not that you couldn't before, but now it's a lot more obvious how it works... feedback welcome!

just updated litehug to include examples for using it from #lua for #sqlite queries

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/litehug

not that you couldn't before, but now it's a lot more obvious how it works... feedback welcome!

The Firefly Zero game jam is now official! Build a game for the Firefly Zero handheld game console on the weekend of January 17-19.

Build a game in any of the supported languages: Rust, Go, Lua, Zig, C, C++, TypeScript, AssemblyScript, Elixir, MoonBit

Documentation and SDK’s are available on the website. It’s very easy to get going and no prior experience is necessary.

More information is available on the Itch.io page:
https://itch.io/jam/firefly-jam

Read more about the Firefly Zero handheld game console on their website:
https://fireflyzero.com/

#GameDev #retrogame #retrogamedev #Rust #RustLang #Go #GoLang #Lua #zig #TypeScript #AssemblyScript #Elixir #MoonBit #FireflyZero

The Firefly Zero game jam is now official! Build a game for the Firefly Zero handheld game console on the weekend of January 17-19.

Build a game in any of the supported languages: Rust, Go, Lua, Zig, C, C++, TypeScript, AssemblyScript, Elixir, MoonBit

Documentation and SDK’s are available on the website. It’s very easy to get going and no prior experience is necessary.

More information is available on the Itch.io page:
https://itch.io/jam/firefly-jam

Read more about the Firefly Zero handheld game console on their website:
https://fireflyzero.com/

#GameDev #retrogame #retrogamedev #Rust #RustLang #Go #GoLang #Lua #zig #TypeScript #AssemblyScript #Elixir #MoonBit #FireflyZero

#Lua 5.5 released! I spent last Christmas learning myself Lua.

https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5

#Lua 5.5 released! I spent last Christmas learning myself Lua.

https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5

Share of programming languages used by #GTK3 / #GTK4 applications (2025-12-13):

30% #Python
20% #Rust
19% #Vala
17% #C
6% #gjs #Javascript #Typescript
5% #C++ #Cplusplus
1% #Go
1% #Csharp
2% Other: #Lua #Swift #Kotlin #Perl #Haskell #Crystal #D #Scheme #Clojurescript

71% use GTK4 (92% of them #libadwaita), still 29% GTK3

Method: Source [1] lists 800 awesome #gtk (3/4) #opensource applications and their #programminglanguage

[1] https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk
#GTK #FLOSS #Linux #Gnome
@GTK @gnome

In #Wikimedia land, I created my first #Lua module in #WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:NHCP_marker_depicts_inscription

This module does all the heavy lifting for enhancing file pages of photos of #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭 with #Wikidata items. It provides a way to point to the Wikidata item about the marker and to show the actual text inscribed in the marker. This is all done by just adding the {{NHCP marker depicts inscription}} template. 🧵 1/3

#OpenData #LinkedOpenData

Creating C closures from Lua closures

https://lowkpro.com/blog/creating-c-closures-from-lua-closures.html

#HackerNews #Creating #C #closures #from #Lua #closures #Lua #C #API #programming #closures

Share of programming languages used by #GTK3 / #GTK4 applications (2025-12-13):

30% #Python
20% #Rust
19% #Vala
17% #C
6% #gjs #Javascript #Typescript
5% #C++ #Cplusplus
1% #Go
1% #Csharp
2% Other: #Lua #Swift #Kotlin #Perl #Haskell #Crystal #D #Scheme #Clojurescript

71% use GTK4 (92% of them #libadwaita), still 29% GTK3

Method: Source [1] lists 800 awesome #gtk (3/4) #opensource applications and their #programminglanguage

[1] https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk
#GTK #FLOSS #Linux #Gnome
@GTK @gnome

@writefreely the project seems very much technologically and value aligned with @silverbulletmd: backend written in #golang, simple single binary deployment, open source, open standards, minimalist design. This may well become my recommended way of sharing content from #SilverBullet

But again, first need to hack together a proper integration in #lua. Seems straight forward enough, already got auth working.

Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua

https://galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua

#HackerNews #ClientSideGPU #GPUloadbalancing #Redis #Lua #Optimization

In #Wikimedia land, I created my first #Lua module in #WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:NHCP_marker_depicts_inscription

This module does all the heavy lifting for enhancing file pages of photos of #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭 with #Wikidata items. It provides a way to point to the Wikidata item about the marker and to show the actual text inscribed in the marker. This is all done by just adding the {{NHCP marker depicts inscription}} template. 🧵 1/3

#OpenData #LinkedOpenData

Putting Lua through its paces. Here's Advent of Code 2024, Day 13, running on all my favorite hardware that I had on hand, through the power of Lua.

Ryzen 5 9600X modern desktop - 1 ms.

HP 200LX, 8 MHz 186, 640 KB RAM available to Lua: 62 seconds.

TI-92+, 12 MHz 68000, 64 KB RAM available to Lua: 65 seconds.

"Write once, run anywhere".

#retrocomputing #lua #ticalc #ti92 #hp200lx

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/115605484728886516

@alcinnz You might be interested in this. 😉 :lua:

👇

#Lua

The Awesome WM is awesome

Often, it is described as "tiling WM for beginners". But inside it is powerful enough — it uses Lua scripting language inside it's configuration file. In the same manner, like StumpWM uses Common Lisp inside it's configuration file. So almost everything, almost any action, could be programmed with Lua.

Looks like Lua is simple enough — with the help of language manual I recreated my StumpWM configuration in one evening. And much more:

- Main (task) bar on the left.
- Widgets with menus: "wifi widget" with menu to call wpa_gui or call dhclient for some interfaces. And the battery widget with menu to setup the charging threshold.
- SVG icons (from Haiku) almost everywhere — in menus, in main bar, etc.

#AwesomeWM #Lua

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/115605484728886516

@alcinnz You might be interested in this. 😉 :lua:

👇

#Lua

Fast Lua runtime written in Rust

https://astra.arkforge.net/

#HackerNews #FastLua #Rust #Runtime #Lua #RustProgramming #Performance #Optimization