James Cash 🍍 @jamesnvc@mastodon.social

@aphyr Yeah...we've tried building stuff on top of spec and it has required a lot of work to massage the output of spec to have something approaching a useful human-readable error message

Why is logging in to Bitbucket such a miserable experience. Do these "enterprise"-y websites actively try to make logging in some horrible puzzle you need to solve?

@aphyr That last picture 😆 Same hair colour & same little smile 😍

Seems unbelievable to me that that's no nice, high-level socket library for macOS, but 🤷

Lesson learned: Apple's "high-level" SocketPort (which still takes raw sockaddr structs & AF_* ints) doesn't actually work for arbitrary messages, I guess, just silently drops them. Have to use the basic socket/bind/accept/recv to actually use a socket. Swift, of course, makes doing this sort of low-level pointer passing & casting a delight 🙃

Trying to make a simple macOS app that uses a Unix socket has become an unremitting nightmare. Docs are awful -- just like "`type: Int32` - the type of the thing; "`address: Data` - the address in a Data object". It also appears that literally no-one else has attempted to build something like this, judging by search results. Ugh.

@technomancy Yup, for sure. I teach at a coding bootcamp, which has exactly that dynamic you describe. It is sooo much easier than what real teachers have to do

@technomancy Yup. My fiance is a teacher & grades are probably the thing she hates doing the most. It's just a thing that government requires, because parents expect it & kids won't do work without them

@aphyr ah yeah, that's tough...my place now, my rack just *barely* fits (had to flip the pull-up bars upside down to fit) and I can't actually overhead press.

Floors also a concern; I got some big sheets of plywood that I put rubber matting on top of, to try to distribute the weight. Probably less PSI than a bookshelf, I would think.

@aphyr Buying a power rack for my house is one of my best purchases ever, and I'm in an 800sq ft apartment. I imagine you could work it into some of your other basement activities too... :p

I tried to write an explainer for continuations, as a way to figure out how continuations work in Prolog. Hopefully this makes sense to someone else https://occasionallycogent.com/continuations_in_prolog/index.html

@mavica I know Keyboardio started selling switches; prices seem reasonable to me, but I haven't priced other places https://shop.keyboard.io/collections/switches-and-sockets

@aphyr Those suspenders look awesome!

Trying to build stuff using Apple's WKWebView on iOS is so frustrating. Having to build on top of a proprietary platform is absolutely soul-crushing, especially when said platform is so bug-ridden and features that used to work are locked behind "private APIs" and "restricted entitlements".

@technomancy ClojureScript does (when using figwheel, at least) although I don't think Clojure itself does

@aphyr Don't they usually take bags off the flight if the person doesn't show up though?

@aphyr I think Chrome's starting doing some kind of """machine learning""" stuff to determine if downloads are "dangerous". A bunch of sites (SWI-Prolog in particular, I know) started having issues with Chrome presenting "dangerous downloads" warnings; potentially related.

@aphyr 👍I'll take a look in the next week or two. This is doing concurrent uploads/downloads with the same session?