rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
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I understand that sending texts in meticulously capitalized and punctuated complete sentences makes me An Old and the thing is I am 100% fine with that.
TIL that it's not just humans that exchange homes in vacancy chains; hermit crabs queue up to exchange shells too!
Why I think #Roc could be the first purely functional programming language to go fully mainstream https://rlamacraft.uk/whyRocCouldBeTheFirstMainstreamPurelyFunctionalLanguage.html
I will say this, when you do actually get through to someone at HMRC they are very helpful. Just like all public services: run by people who genuinely do seem to care but just criminally understaffed and underfunded.
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IDEs reduce code complexity much in the same way that a highway reduces traffic.
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Reading newspaper stories and various other media, it's pretty clear that Musk didn't rename "Twitter" to "X". He renamed it "X, formerly known as Twitter."
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We curse the one benighted chap /
Who felled the sycamore at the gap /
but tolerate those richer guys /
who burn whole forests, seas and skies.
Simon Heywood, 2023
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Was introduced to Herrington Darkholme’s `ast-grep` tool and my god it’s so useful. Think Babel, but since it’s built on tree-sitter, it works for *so many* languages out of the box.
Here I am adding methods to structs in C for a side project: https://bit.ly/3PQ02uv
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Labour refusing to commit to undoing Tory U-turns on net zero. It's a trap and Starmer has fallen right for it. What's even the point of voting for them if you just get the same policies. The Labour party just swings from Tory-lite to unelectable and back again every five years.
Labour need to wake up and realise that Proportional Representation isn't just good for the country, it's good for them too https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/16/labour-tories-neck-and-neck-mid-bedfordshire-race-poll-nadine-dorries
I've been listening to an episode of The Changelog podcast "You call it tech debt I call it malpractice"[1], which got me thinking what if every time we as developers wanted to to introduce some tech debt we had to fill out a form detailing our decision making and the required remediation work. These could then be reviewed periodically.
Every time we cut some corner, fail to sufficiently document or test a change, or otherwise leave the code base in a less than an ideal state there would be a trail of documentation. We could then begin to attach a cost to each documented case, and start to have a systematic process of performing cost-benefit analysis.
[1]: https://pca.st/episode/34cdb2de-7ff6-4601-b3cc-fd6c6f3c47ff
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I'm not sure what I did to deserve this fortune cookie curse, but whatever it is, I'm sorry.
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If you’re a nerd like me and have an hour’s time, watch this talk on e-mail by @dylanbeattie. https://youtu.be/mrGfahzt-4Q #NDC #NDCOslo
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Ah, Elon Musk. He tried to be the Henry Ford of space travel but instead became the Liz Truss of social media.
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How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in mixed-materials packaging?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in non-recyclable packaging?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold in non-standard bottles and jars?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold with labels stuck on with non-water-soluble glue?
So that's an extra 20% for non-recyclable mixed-material non-standard bottles with bastard glued on labels...
Packaging would get sorted QUICK.
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MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names - it makes you wonder what kind of crazy vulnerability is lurking in the dark.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
