I tried to sell XAD, the Active Directory workalike I wrote 2002-2006, to Sun. Would’ve integrated nicely with SunDS (a big part consisted of SLAPI plugins). Was in touch with Jonathan Swartz, but no dice. Sold it to Novell instead. Ironically ended up porting SLAPI to eDirectory to integrate it.

I pushed XAD internally. But I didn't have the pull needed.

Sun not acquiring XAD was a big mistake.

I didn't know you tried at Sun. Obviously I was a big XAD fan :-).

It's possible to have a career in classical music (I have one, for some definition of classical). But I suspect that streaming income from passive listeners (i.e. not fans) will disappear once the streaming services can eliminate those pesky songwriters and artists.

CM4s are very tricky to find right now. Should have stocked up… :( (I’m building an embedded product and it’s probably still the right choice, just more expensive and harder to find than when I started the project in 2024.)

Ha, I quite enjoy doing this in comments or commit messages where practicable. But, that's just a few lines. :)

It's a guilty pleasure of mine, spending a few minutes to clean up the aesthetics of docstrings and comments. I justify (heh) it to myself by catching unclear wording on this last cleanup pass -- and not taking it too far, obstrusifying for the aesthetic.

I must admit to occasionally rearranging words or choosing different synonyms to make a column of spaces line up in a monospaced paragraph, so that you could draw a straight line down one column the screen without passing through any letters or punctuation. Or making a diagonal line of spaces, top-left to bottom-right.

I usually only did that when the text already was close to lining up that way, though.

Ha yes, PC XT clone here! And then eventually, a 486SX around 1993, which was my first foray into Linux.

Correction: Apple never used X as a native window system, nor did NeXT. The did provide the hooks for an X11 server to run on macOS. From memory this was due to requests from the academic community at the time.

Thanks, I made a correction

You might want to make the port index instead a bit mask, that will let you support multicast and also selective broadcast flooding (although if you have limited space you’ll likely make broadcast flooding the default).

Toyota is using Flutter I believe.

I haven't used it, but there's also Avocado OS [1]. Myself, I use Yocto for our embedded build. It's not perfect but for our application, which involves building a bunch of software that uses both Swift and Flutter for an embedded audio product running on a RPi CM4, it works just fine. Shout out to Mender for A/B updates.

[1] https://www.peridio.com/avocado-os

Also it’s nice for things like SPI which have no user space non-blocking API.

SPI the bus?