rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

PureScript is to JavaScript what sourdough is to Chorleywood bread, or what greenwood working is to nailing chipboard together.

I've been on a bit of a rabbit hole lately about how other types of engineers (carpenters, metalworkers, clockmakers, etc) use, buy, build, and share tools; really interesting similarities and differences with software engineers

It's days like this that we have to remember the progressivism is not inevitable.

@aeveltstra @sir I think Drew’s mastodon account is dead, but he’s pretty quick to respond to the mailing list ~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss@lists.sr.ht

Treesitter integration alone is reason enough to be tempted to move from vim to neovim

TIL The war of 1812 in North America started the same week as Napoleon's invasion of Russia

A vanilla soy latte is, technically, a 3 bean soup https://cuberule.com/

The experience of going to the post office feels like it hasn't changed in over a century… Between modern supermarkets with self-checkout machines and the ubiquity of ATMs in banks, post offices just feel absolutely archaic; like I'm stepping back into an old butcher or greengrocer

Started a new hobby this year: basketry. This is my fourth attempt, and first that I'm truly happy with. Still doesn't have a flat bottom, but oh well

@markusl @trinsec Sturgeon's not perfect, but she's a damn sight better than the Tories, or any of the westminster lot for that matter. The welsh first minister too, only heard good things about him. Just in general, the two devolved nations of GB seem to do things much better

Each Tory prime minister is worse than the previous. On the one hand I hope Boris goes this week, on the other hand I cannot fathom what ghoul'll replace him.

I just don't understand people who make off-hand comments saying that the Queen has never worked a day in her life. I'm no monarchist but I think she's had a very demanding job. Do people think meeting ministers and diplomats, meeting the public, and attending events is all fun? Not a job I'd ever want

I have never understood why online store given an option to filter by colour, but not by a myriad of other far more useful options. This gift I'm trying to buy, I don't care whether it's aimed at a toddler or a middle aged bloke, whether it's big or small, as long as it's blue. That's all that matters; that it be BLUE.

@wildgoose Fried chicken in Eurasia, yes. But alas, no hot sauce with that fried chicken https://youtu.be/x2O1mygpbk8

@markusl That’s definitely true. A common dish in Britain for centuries was just beer, bread, and cheese; the original ploughman’s. Today this would be considered rations. Nonetheless, food cooked in a little fat/oil is just so much tastier, I find it hard to believe that people who had the same tasting receptors we do today wouldn’t have sought out ways to improve the taste. Even monkeys have been observed washing sweet potatoes in sea water because it’s tastier that way

I wonder if there was a point in history, after the invention of pottery but before refined oils, where every recipe would have required rendering animal fat or toasting a nut paste to fry, or whether cooking just wasn't as developed in what would have been some time around the late neolithic

"Life is a meeting that could've been an email"

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/email-2