Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org

Finally getting around to quartoifying my website and making a custom bootstrap theme and it's a delight so far! #QuartoPub #rstats

Saying something like, "Mastodon is open source. Don't like the functionality? Get to work." is not only useless 'advice' but actually pushes people away from open source and the tool you are telling them to fix.

Why are you combative that someone doesnt have time, energy, expertise or actually enough care to fix it themselves? Imagine telling that to a reporter, doctor, lawyer, or geologist?

In 1938, kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick wore slacks to court to testify as a witness in Los Angeles, CA. Judge Arthur Guerin was appalled & rescheduled the case, instructing her to “return in a dress.”

The next day, Hulick showed up in slacks again, declaring, “I will stand on my rights…I like slacks. They’re comfortable.”

She was sent to jail. https://web.archive.org/web/20210315143406/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-15/from-the-archives-wear-slacks-to-court-and-go-to-jail

"Crafting Interpreters" is a popular book by Robert Nystrom:

http://craftinginterpreters.com

It's less known Nystrom wrote a blog series explaining in great detail how he created the book. In the posts he covered his writing routine, book design, production toolchain, self-publishing process, promotion, and the setbacks and tragedies that challenged the work on the book. Here's the series:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/category/book/

#books #SelfPublishing #compilers

So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.

But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

if C doesn't have reflection then explain this

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Gdo8vdYs4

Few things as satisfying as day after thanksgiving chaos plate dinner. Second thanksgiving is awesome.

Are you NEW here at SDF?
WELCOME! And did you know SDF has a radio station? It's called aNONradio and you can listen here:

Click me: https://anonradio.net/

When should you listen? 19:30 UTC!

19:30 UTC is the start time for Dubious Goals Committee!
That's 2:30pmET, 1:30pmCT, 12:30pmMT, 11:30amPT in North America. For everyone else, UTC is pretty much GMT, so now you have to do a math problem. Sorry 'bout that.

#sdf #anonradio #voteturtleparty
#logs #lonelybeef

I like drinking tea.

Mess

#chiptune #electronic #electronica #experimental #synthwave https://music.litui.net/library/tracks/11668

@peterdrake
I agree in general with your sentiment.
Except for one thing:

> 'Saying it's up to individual users to block things they don't want to see feels a bit privileged.'

We don't mind other instances blocking other instances. The problem is that the toxic ones do so for the wrong reasons. Like blocking others because they don't block the same instances as they do, and then trying to convince other instances to block the same.

If one instance wants to block half the Fediverse, that's up to them. Totally. They can be a walled garden for all I care. But then to spread their blocklist and say 'this is the one true safe blocklist' seems ... well, they basically become the very people they hate.

@freemo @Gargron @stux @QOTO

What can we do to work towards a much more diverse and anti-racist Mastodon? https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

introducing lispPackagesLite: Common Lisp in pure Nix, no Quicklisp. I need help with makeScope.

https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

#lisp #nixos #programming

I added an extra server to the #QOTO cloud. This should speed up our services, in particular gitlab and discourse were using up too much cpu, but now they are fine. Those services should run much smoother now.

禁断の果実。Forbidden fruit. #followfriday #apple #photography

Are their any fellow YNAB users out there in Mastodon-land?

#ynab

Haven't usef the language, I find the language nice, but the amount of effort to avoid calling things by their names and all the work to invent new syntax to work with #monads dissapoints me. Let's see what this all evolves into.

v0.25 - Introducing use expressions! – Gleam
https://gleam.run/news/v0.25-introducing-use-expressions/

#erlang #beamVm #gleam #gleamlang #fp #plt #programming #programmingLanguages #functionalProgramming

As a Sunday side-project, I'm going to start following this tutorial on making a roguelike game with Rust and Specs 💫

I've always wanted to learn more about Rust, ECS and Roguelike-dev, so this tutorial is a perfect combination! I'll try to slowly finish it and let you know about the results weekly 🤓

On this day of the Fall Harvest Feast in the US, I'll share one of my highlights of the year: Grand Entry at the 41st Annual Kamloopa Pow Wow, hosted by the Secwepemc people of the Tk’emlúps Nation, by the site of the Kamloops Residential School where 215 unmarked graves were discovered last year. The pow wow came back after 3 years off, with 20,000 visitors and 1,500 dancers over 3 magical days. #Powwow #FirstNations #Indigenous #BIPOC #BC #Canada