Jordan Petridis @alatiera@mastodon.social

The same idea, in diagram form

A more succint way of putting the theming question: "Good apps, many apps, themes. Choose any two"

PSA: Restyling apps automatically doesn't work, and trying to do it is a dick move towards app developers.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-at-scale/

Google Docs, but each time you want to type a character you have to:
1. Fork the document
2. Clone the original doc (and this takes time since it downloads its whole history)
3. Add your fork as a remote
4. Make a new branch
5. Fire up an editor, type the character
6. Stage the line
7. Make a commit, come up with an explanatory message
8. Push the commit to your fork
9. Make a pull request to the original doc
10. Wait for the owner to accept it
11. Pull from the original doc
12. Get rid of your branch
Done!

Tarballs are not pristine sources if there's a version control repo before them.

Tired: “don’t forget to turn off your computer on dec 31st 1999!”
Wired: “don’t forget to turn off your computer on jan 1st 2038”
Inspired: “don’t forget to turn off your computer right now. Go away. It’s not worth it. Leave it.”

@federicomena Some of the Flatpak bashing seems to forget that both Flatpak and Snap are being made by groups of people who've had to put up with building distributions using RPM & DEB for decades.

“Breaking political silence” is what privileged people do when the shit finally hits their fan too.

We built this shitty
We built this shitty on technical debt

The bane of the #rustlang touch typist: having to type {:?} in debug println.

How programmers comment their code