Developer Diary, World Day Against Child Labor

Hi! It looks like I have since continued, updated, or rethought this post in some ways, so you may want to look at this after you're done reading here.

Today marks the World Day Against Child Labor—OK, technically “Labour,” since the ILO has worked out of Europe for over a hundred years, but I don’t feel like hassling with the spell-checker—which raises awareness of and tries to spur activism against child labor. This probably hasn’t seemed like a big deal for most of us in recent years, but states with reactionary leadership in the United States have spent a lot of the past couple of years loosening restrictions on child labor laws in an effort to drive down wages…on top of deliberately acting cruel to children, by shielding their employers from liability in the case of workplace injuries.

Child coal miners — drivers and mules, in Gary, West Virginia, mine

Since I can’t think of much to say about that, I’ll move on to programming…or more pushing library versions around.

Library Updates

I needed to bump (finally) versions of libraries for the Bicker, CPREP Background Generator, Fýlakas Onomáton, Miniboost, Picture to Nonogram, Renewal Database, Scan Data, Slack-up, and Zoea.

Secret Project?

I don’t want to give away too much before its time, because I have a specific release date in mind for it—you’ll understand my reasons when we get there, in a couple of months—but I spent a while working on a small game. I’ll have more to say about it when I release everything…

Next

Bet on my continuing to push through updating these libraries, to try to get them up to date.

Credits: The header image is Drivers and Mules, Gary, W. Va., Mine, Where much of the mining and carrying is done by machinery by Lewis Wickes Hine, long in the public domain due to an expired copyright.

No webmentions were found.

By commenting, you agree to follow the blog's Code of Conduct and that your comment is released under the same license as the rest of the blog. Or do you not like comments sections? Continue the conversation in the #entropy-arbitrage chatroom on Matrix…

 Tags:   programming   project   devjournal

Sign up for My Newsletter!

Get monthly * updates on Entropy Arbitrage posts, additional reading of interest, thoughts that are too short/personal/trivial for a full post, and previews of upcoming projects, delivered right to your inbox. I won’t share your information or use it for anything else. But you might get an occasional discount on upcoming services.
Or… Mailchimp 🐒 seems less trustworthy every month, so you might prefer to head to my Buy Me a Coffee ☕ page and follow me there, which will get you the newsletter three days after Mailchimp, for now. Members receive previews, if you feel so inclined.
Email Format
* Each issue of the newsletter is released on the Saturday of the Sunday-to-Saturday week including the last day of the month.
Can’t decide? You can read previous issues to see what you’ll get.