Hisham @hisham_hm@mastodon.social

How's it going mastopeeps? What did I miss?

My number one goal for this year's Brazilian elections:

#EleNão
#EleNunca

htop 3.0.0beta5 tagged and announced last weekend at #linuxdevbr!

A quality of code I never see being praised anywhere: how _greppable_ it is. When picking names of things, I'm always thinking "how easy will it be to grep all uses of this later without a bunch of false-positives"?

Corollary: Being greppable is the first step to being seddable.

quick scroll through Facebook: people distressed with Brazilian politics

quick scroll through Twitter: people distressed with American politics

quick scroll through Mastodon: people discussing decentralized social networks

what is a good (and hopefully entertaining) book about software testing?

Announcing LuaRocks 3.0.0beta1!

https://hisham.hm/2018/07/04/luarocks-300beta1/

#lualang #luarocks #lua

Good morning.

I just had a dream where I had to type a number but NumLock was off and I got garbage in my terminal instead.

Even in my sleep.

EVEN IN MY SLEEP.

I've been using Twitter semi-regularly again. I feel guilty.

A silly little thing which improves code ergonomics — when making lists of repeated entries, make pyramids:

https://hisham.hm/2018/06/16/when-listing-repeated-things-make-pyramids/

5,000 Icelanders are in the stadium watching the game. If the equivalent percentage of the Brazilian population were in a stadium watching a game, that would amount to roughly the entire population of Uruguay (give or take the entire population of Iceland)

It's my birthday!!! 🎉 🍰 🍍 🎉

are we doing #FanArtforRose here too?

Do yourself a favor and follow @juliobiason 's live mocking of the WWDC keynote — hashtag, appropriately enough is #livemock :D

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For decades Microsoft was known for its centralizing culture: everything was in-house.

Then they started to use Github heavily.

And now Github is "in-house".