Enthusiastically embracing test-driven development as always, we attempt to write a minimal clone of a useful tool, towncrier, which allows us to build changelogs out of individual "newsfragment" files. By the end we have the outline of a decent solution that passes our first and only testcase!

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Lullaby for Jara is an original lullaby for solo ukulele written and performed by Choan Gálvez.

It's part of Dream Big, Little Monster, an album of soothing instrumentals for ukulele coming out on May 1st.

Pre-order your copy:

• Digital album + PDF sheet music book: https://choan.bandcamp.com/album/dream-big-little-monster

I was scared to do it, but it was actually fine! This time we look at the quickest way to split up massive text files into separate lines, first by implementing our own zero-copy version of BufReader::lines and later using SIMD, which allows us to process 64 bytes simultaneously, using a single CPU instruction! I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've ventured into nightly Rust on this channel...

You can find the code at https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/changelog-builder

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Repairing a Sony TC-TX333 stereo auto-reverse cassette deck that doesn't play and auto-reverses continuously

🤮 El Parlamento Europeo ya ha dado luz verde a un reglamento que va a dar lugar a más redadas raistas, más perfilamiento racial, más detenciones y la posibilidad de deportar a personas migrantes en situación irregular a terceros países.

👁️ Cada semana nos llega un nuevo vídeo donde se ejerce violencia del Estado sobre cuerpos racializados. Y la UE acaba de desbloquear más dinero para multiplicar estas atrocidades.

Frente a esto, toca resistir

📢 +110 organizaciones han pedido al gobierno que lo frene.

📌 Así que nos toca presionar

Vídeo realizado por @alex.meaude y @proyectouna con el apoyo de @novact, @iridia y @pantube y con la participación de @infusionideologica