By request, I am making “Lifetime Subscriptions” to The Lunduke Journal once again available… but only until end of day tomorrow (Friday, December 30th). So, if you want one, chop chop.
The “Lifetime Subscription” (which runs $300) has the same benefits as the “Founding Member” subscription… with the added bonus of lasting forever. Meaning you get absolutely every perk The Lunduke Journal offers… and you never need to pay again. For life. Which is pretty cool.
Worth noting: If you are a current Monthly, Yearly, or Founding Member subscriber — you can apply the total amount you have already paid during 2022 towards your Lifetime Subscription. Good way to save some bucks. If you need assistance in figuring out how much you’ve paid for your current subscription, feel free to ask and Lunduke can look it up.
How to snag a Lifetime Subscription:
Go to the Lunduke.Locals.com subscription page. Select the “Annual” option, and select “Card”. Then enter the amount for a Lifetime Subscription ($300 minus anything you’ve already paid in 2022).
You will then be contacted by Lunduke to finalize setting up your account (it’s super easy).
Just be sure to do it before end of day on Friday. Because, on Friday night, I’m putting the “Lifetime Subscription” option back in the vault and it will no longer be available for folks to purchase.
This is the first and last note you’ll see about this. No reminders.
With Git Moving to Rust, How Long Until a Git Fork?
Git 3.0 is scheduled to ship "second half of 2026", with a mandatory requirement of Rust. Which means Git will no longer build on many platforms. Setting the stage for a successful fork.
Connor McLaughlin, the developer of Duckstation, a popular Playstation emulator, calls NixOS and Arch Linux "hostile package environments", and blocks building for those Linux distributions.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
I has clearly been adopted by the next generation. It can plug in very nicely into various ecosystems and tools. I am planning to adopt it as well for app development (logic part, not the view).
At the end of the day, if modern kids, people etc want to use Rust then it makes sense for the projects to start exploring it and investing in it today.
Not doing so might lead to old timers retiring without anyone left to replace them.
Rust is not a bad language at all. It definitely has a bad reputation for the way it was being pushed a few years back. But honestly, I don't see those "rewrite in Rust" mobs much these days.
U see people doing amazing projects and organic adoption skyrocketing.
That's why I don't think adding Rust into traditionaly C code bases is a bad idea.
It prepares the project for the "changing of the guard".
This was always bound to happen some day if not Rust then Zig or something else but as it turned out, it's Rust.
For you @GeekOnSkates a "Metal meets Medieval Vikings" song.
I didn't march to my own drummer as a kid nerd refusing to bow to school bullies -- only to, as an adult, bow down to any Nerd Herd trying to be gatekeepers.
A huge thank you to everyone who has signed up during this crazy deal. We are this close to filling up the 4th Lifetime Subscriber Wall (there’s a possibility it might fill up in the next few hours).
Far beyond anything I was expecting. All of you are absolutely amazing. The Lunduke Journal would not be possible without you.
If you were on contemplating grabbing that Lifetime Sub, I’d jump on it right now. The price goes back up to normal ($300) in about 12 hours or so.
Discounting Lifetime Subscriptions by over 70% was an absolute blast. So many of you took advantage of the offer that we’re now up to four Lifetime Subscriber walls at the end of every video. Crazy!
But something that awesome can’t last forever. Which means that, in just a few days, Lifetime Subscriptions will return to their regular price of $300.
With no plans to do another wild discount like that any time soon.
There are some options. For both subscribing and donating. They're all on this page.
Bonus: At the bottom of this page you will find the invite link to the super-secret Lunduke Journal Discord Chat Server. This is only available for full subscribers, which makes it a nice place to hang out. No riff-raff.
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