Alex @alexjgriffith@mastodon.social
I completed my Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ottawa in 2016 and am currently working for the Government of Canada.
Friendly advice: try using a browser that isn't Chrome while you still can.
https://andreasgal.com/2017/07/19/firefox-marketshare-revisited/
you know what they say: too many cooks stage a coup
The big mastodon.el refactor is in develop. Big shoutouts to @alexjgriffith and @h_d for all of their hard work. Expect v0.7.0 by the end of today.
This big bottleneck should allow us to add notifications, favourites, and profiles rather quickly.
Riot.im is awesome but the client uses Google Analytics.
If you are using the web client opt for https://disroot.org/.
I've opened an issue for the #Android client on F-Droid's repo: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/734
For desktop client, best check your distribution; ArchLinux's AUR package patches it for example (it's how I found out).
Namespaces, how I missed you!
The "organic, all natural, GMO-free" movement sorta pisses me off and in my opinion displays a degree of ignorance.
The mastodon.el v0.6.3 release has been tagged and pushed. It should be available on MELPA-stable in ~2 hours. #emacs
I think I've overdone my #emacs exposure for the week. Starting to have nightmares where the antagonist is always insisting that what I am trying to insert is not a string and that my mode-line looks aweful.
I'm rewatching the Harry Potter movies and here's a couple thoughts:
Nerdwriter is right, Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the movies
Harry James Evans-Verres Potter is a better character than Harry Potter, canon Harry is pretty dumb and hard to watch. Also, wtf is Hermione doing in Gryffindor. What's the reason for Ravenclaw house to exist if Hermione is not in it?
One of the reasons I like HPMOR more than canon is because the characters' awesomeness potential is actually used
@NicolasPetton for your next blog post can you detail how you made your mode-line look awesome?
Kinda tempts me to try emacs... http://emacs.sexy/ Especially with all the work @johnson has been doing with the emacs mastodon client...
My second article about setting up #emacs for #javascript is online :) http://emacs.cafe/emacs/javascript/setup/2017/04/29/emacs-setup-javascript-2.html https://mastodon.social/media/bQN-h_07TiLBiOsd_yE
Internal fixes, improved rendering and image display. We're now showing multiple images per toot. A few other small fixes. They're in master now.
Happy Friday everyone!!
don't divide, intel inside
how to select a new programming language
Signs you have been working in #emacs lisp too much recently, and how it messes up your work in other languages.
1. You are reflexivly putting parens before your function calls
2. You have forgoten how infix notation works
3. Woaah what is this, lexical binding! How I missed you.
Loving the Tile-View extension for #Firefox
From the beloved category of "Things I kinda knew but didn't really think about it":
Erlang Strings are lists of integer encoded chars. So "hello, " ++ "world" => "hello, world" (same as string:concat/2)
But what happens when the second argument is an atom (think Symbols in Ruby)?
"hello, " ++ world => [104,101,108,108,111,44,32|world]
To convert all elements to their textual representation when concatenating use lists:concat/1:
lists:concat(["hello, ", world]) => "hello, world"
Word, where is my VC!!