rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

I do live an ocean away and so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt, but I strongly disagree with Daniel Miessler’s recent take on the meaning of “mass shooting”. Sure, there’s a certain level of horror when it comes to shooting in schools and supermarkets, but why should attending a “truck show or … nightclub” come with an accepted risk of serious injury and death. Shooting have become so normalised in the US that what would be considered a shocking incident here in Europe is just swept under the rug and considered unimportant to statistical reporting by some. Fine, choose to have a gun culture if you so wish, but be honest with the repercussions. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/disambiguating-mass-shootings/

TIL this past year I have travelled less than the average medieval peasant

I miss doing type driven development. So much more satisfying than this hogwash

If vaccinated old people can go to the pub this summer but their soon-to-be jobless kids can’t I’m convinced there’s going to be widespread riots. When furlough ends things are going to get tense.

I find it hard to listen to podcasts about languages like Elm and Reason ML because I just get jealous that there are people who get to use them in their day job

YouTube is a video a hosting platform. If I see a cool ad, why is there no way for me to search for and share it? Is that not what their customers want?

Some hard-hitting reporting from the New York Times on the inequality of vaccine distribution. Such is the world we live in. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/19/world/covid-vaccine-inequality.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

I’ve just spent 2 hours debugging an issue which turns out to be because JavaScript was silently converting my integer to a string… Not even quotes around it when printing out… just great.

The fact that we as an industry decided to take a programming language designed for normal folk to add a little bit of interactivity to the personal websites and use it to build commercial grade applications is honestly one of the worst decisions of the 21st century. Pure stupidity.

“Several years ago, I was chatting with another engineer from a close competitor. He told me about how they'd set up a system to run hundreds of data processing jobs a day over a dozen machines, using docker, load balancing, a bunch of AWS stuff. I knew these jobs very well, they were basically identical for any company in the space.
He then mentioned that he'd noticed that somehow my employer had been processing thousands of jobs, much faster than his, and asked how many machines we were using.
I didn't have the heart to tell him we were running everything manually on my two-year-old macbook air.” — just amazing! 😂https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473388

“Fixed width typeface with ligatures” is a bit of an oxymoron really

Why is billing address even a thing? Why is providing my physical address necessary for me to purchase an entirely digital good?

I just don’t understand what can drive someone to such monstrous behaviour. Calling them “dogs” just doesn’t do it justice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/the-death-of-zaw-myat-lynn-allegations-torture-used-on-opposition-activist-in-myanmar