cms: chaos wizard @cms@mastodon.social

Some people think #laptop #stickers are not cool. I am not one of those people. #RHLSTP

Happy new year to all mastodons

Geugh, here is the holiday season cold. *sneeze*

Mostly twisted ankle, this weeks Outlander

No, that's what *you* call music. Volume I!

BLOG: Age before beauty - https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/myself/blinkered

'icebugs' : what happens when 90% of the functionality of your software is submerged, uncharted, and potentially treacherous #npm

"As few dependencies as is reasonable", should be high on your priorities list.

But what's reasonable? Well, quite. That's in the sector of the Venn labelled 'Art' , not the one labelled 'Science'. Below the mid point, closer to the boundary of 'Craft'.

Dependencies are maybe the hardest part of software development. Building tools to foster a culture where "you shouldn't have to worry about them" has some key problems

- if you buy into this mythology, you're going to see a population explosion of libraries.

- also, you have a cadre of software builders who are comfortable building software icebergs - where the majority of the infrastructure is submerged, obscure and potentially dangerous.

You do have to shave a lot of corners right down to get a square peg to fit into a round hole though

it''s not an equivalent problem to 'making development easier'. It's orthogonal. Maybe it's a more tempting false equivalence if your base tooling has a lot of cracks? Maybe not.

Frictionless dependencies sounds lovely, but it's not the right goal.

ah, hubris

> "I wrote npm because I'd seen module packaging done terribly, and done brilliantly, and I wanted to make sure that Node didn't end up with something like Pear. Even CPAN, wonderful and impressive as it is, had some problems that I thought we could learn from."

I think my favourite part of the decidedly murky Six4Three document seizure affair is where he was keeping the court sealed secret documents in fucking Dropbox. #millennials

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What if we mod_rewrite the .*'s?
Maybe the www could be ours
Tonight
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brexit update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuNTB3yJs44

mongodb tries to mount /sys if you don't have /sys mounted.

presumably to cover the case when you've a) accidentally unmounted /sys before restarting a database, and b) are running mongodb under a user account that has privileges to mount /sys...

Lately, there seems to be a small glut of 'farewell readers, this is my last piece, here's a retrospective' from the opinion columnists over at the Guardian.

perhaps I should say "Great Scott!"

I expect they still need a bigger boat.

Today is the 28th birthday of the internet movie database, according to the official timeline.

Good grief.