Ivan Sagalaev @isagalaev@mastodon.social

So instead of my usual scorn, cynicism and bashing of various technologies I thought I'd share something that got me excited recently…

@rixx this is one of the *best kept* Python secrets, really :-)

I'm trying to make an #Android app and I find that the docs on developer.android.com is one of the shittiest I ever had to work with. It usually goes like this:

- Find a topic on the site, realize you're being shown the most basic, useless example of something that doesn't give links to any of the ways you'd actually want to extend it.

- Then search the Internet, trying to guess which of the solutions are not obsolete or over-engineered.

How do normal people do it?

@zeri no judgment from me! :-) I'm just trying to find a good replacement for the venerable RunKeeper…

@zeri which app is this?

Ordered myself a new pair of Nike Pegasus. The old pair was good *) for 500 miles, time for a refresh!

*) One of them did develop a hole above the thumb though, but it's the state of the sole that matters to me. Two of my previous pairs didn't have that defect, so I'm willing to write it off as a fluke.

#running

@cj @Argus fair enough. Those aren't mutually exclusive, and I believe in people's ability to make their own judgment. Just thought I had to give a fair warning, using my own experience.

@Argus ahem… Given that you're writing it right after boosting Ro from playviscious, your perception may be a bit skewed. He's one of the most toxic people I've had displeasure to encounter on the Internet, so I would take his "the fedi hates you if you're Black" with a grain of salt. It may be that the fedi hates him specifically.

(Having said that, I tried to avoid him for a long time, so my impression may be less accurate by now. Although I don't believe anything has changed, frankly.)

@trevdev this is one of those things I keep in mind when someone preaches how wonderfully we would all live together if it wasn't for a handful of evil sociopath billionaires/capitalist/dictators etc. (add any flavor). No, it's not a handful. The majority of people are pretty selfish and will throw others under the bus if they gain anything from it. The only reason our society exists is that people aren't *actively* malevolent either.

#uspeople

So whenever you feel inclined to talk about progressive policies, civil liberties and other inspired ideals, please remind yourself that people of this country cleared grocery stores out of toilet paper out of sole fear that "other" people would do it before them.

They did it in your liberal city, your conservative small town, on the coast, in the fly-over country, be they hipsters, rednecks, farmers or yuppies. They did it twice.

This country is beyond salvation…

@ehashman g'mrning to you too....

@Argus or as one might put it, WordPress is now simply a part of Fediverse.