Debajit Adhikary @debajit@mastodon.social

Version 27.1 of everyone's favorite extensible, customizable, and free text editor is here! Try the latest #Emacs release and see what all the fuss is about: https://u.fsf.org/34s

Yo, fuck round avatars.

Did you know?

Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, and often one of them is much easier to do in your head.

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

#mermay 11!
Celui d'hier, quoi.

#mermay2019 #mermaychallenge #mermaychallenge2019 #mastoart

I wonder if you could run the Erlang VM on a phone, you could theoretically make phone apps in Elixir

Brilliant project that tidies up public domain ebooks.

Gutenberg and Internet Archive are wonderful resources, but the texts are poorly formatted for actual use, especially on ereaders.

This is a volunteer driven initiative to bring these texts up to date with modern standards and make them look as good as possible on the page.

https://standardebooks.org/

When I was a kid, there was always a key marked "Return". These days it's always "Enter".

When did we reach the point of no Return?

This has been in question again lately, so I thought I'd remind you

The ultimate goal of any program is to be as simple as possible. It is much harder to write a simple program than a complex program, but achieving simplicity is the highest calling of the programmer, and we must strive for it.

♫〜 #CurrentSoundtrack

DJ Okawari (feat. Emi Meyer) – Midnight Train

https://youtu.be/W72LiPMNs9E

#MastoRadio #NowPlaying #NP

Ah, Merveilles. One of the best little corners of the internet.

Aryeh Nirenberg has created an amazing video, which lets you feel the rotation of the earth:

Using a tracking mount aligned with North Star, he kept taking photos every 12 seconds for about 3 hours. The camera is looking at the same portion of the Milky Way.

"Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world?"

http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/index.html

We're getting many questions in regard to why we target old devices. Here are some of our thoughts on the matter.

What we are trying to do, is build inspiring software that might give people's old machines a second life, or a second look. To make possible this sort of recycling and reuse, we also maintain and archive documentation for these various systems.

A lot of the ideas explored back in the 70s and 80s should not be forgotten, or seen as lesser.

@alcinnz

> "A developer should primarily care about producing value, not code.…" https://thevaluable.dev/page/principles/

That page contains a lot of individual sentences that I cannot disagree with, exactly.

It nevertheless has a sort of MBA-esque vibe that creeps me out.

IMO, software developers are craftspeople and should ideally care deeply about their craft for its own sake. Yes, creating something that helps others is great, but someone who is *just* focused on that still gives me pause.