PuercoPop @PuercoPop@mastodon.social

The correct response to command line tools which spy on users is not to introduce a ‘DO_NOT_TRACK’ environment variable; it is to stop using those command line tools.

tired: "we love monorepos so much, we keep 20 of them"

wired: "plentyrepos"

ah yeah, system administration documentation or how I like to call it "~/.bash_history"

If you consider using Markdown for some kind of formatted document, you'd be well served by taking a look at Asciidoc.

Markdown is a stupid format that cannot be reliably parsed. Asciidoc is not only consistent, but is also provides a lot of features one needs. How about the ability to do tables, as an example.

If you're in a situation where you need to have a simple markup format and you cannot use org-mode for various reasons, take a look at Asciidoc. I'm quite pleasantly surprised.

In retrospect, browser developers getting tired of waiting on the W3C and beginning to standardise their implementations — rather than implementing standards — was an inflection point which would move control of the Web to whichever sponsor could gain a large majority share of the market.

Oh, and the Servo team at Mozilla (writing the browser engine in Rust) was also let go.

No way Firefox is going to get much attention from Mozilla now.

Firefox market share vs Mozilla Foundation chair salary for last year financials are available (2018)

Translation:
-remember, daughter: destroy authority, not the planet.
-yes, mom.

Next Tuesday at 13:00 CEST online-lisp-meets with

⭐️ Jan Moringen about the new and improved version of Clouseau, the McCLIM inspector facility
⭐️ Hayley Patton about ideas from developing the Netfarm distributed object system in common-lisp (concurrency)

links, titles, and abstracts: https://reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/i05dr1/online_lisp_meeting_6/

Thanks to @phoe for organising this wonderful series!
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@lisp @commonlisp

#Programming #Lisp #CommonLisp @lisp

My upcoming Common Lisp book, "The Common Lisp Condition System", was officially announced by Apress. It'll be available in paper and electronic formats at the end of the year.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843525

Cultural appropriation is such an interesting fight that we have on the left and in this country, because we often treat it to mean "Cultural theft" which implies the existence of "Cultural property", ideas and practices that can belong to one group of people. While I don't necessarily disagree with that framework, I do think sometimes it might be more productive to talk of Erasure, Fetishization, and Commodification.

ME TO MY COLLEAGUES: you should consider moving your code to somewhere other than Microsoft GitHub, because monopolies are bad

GITLAB: *does this*

IPFS is a really nice distributed filesystem that is slowly growing in popularity. Netflix has found a good use case: container image distribution.

https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/ipfs-emerges-as-tool-to-distribute-container-image

I'm slightly reminded of Usenet: just download content from the nearest server!

I love Emacs but dear god Elisp is on the dark timeline of Lisps.

@simula

One tiny aspect I want to rant about is the marketing phrase "cross platform"

It only works on 64bit systems that can run Chrome.

You know what did portable development better? JVM.

I wanted people to stop making crappy Java apps, but now that we have electron... Please, please use java again, I promise I won't complain anymore!

You, a coward: Python doesn't have a switch statement

Me, a modern-day Galileo: