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
If a project requires any two of the following, then I think it should be implemented in a programming language that has a good static type checker. No ifs, no buts.
* Involves more than 1 developer
* Involves more than 1 file
* Involves more than 1 month
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I've been reading up on algebraic effects (e.g., of the sort in https://www.eff-lang.org/ )
In terms of programming paradigms, first with "functional programming" and now with "effective programming" … someone sure has a knack for coming up with names that make everyone else sound bad
("No, I prefer to write non-functional and non-effective code" (!))
How come I have to authorise an online payment through the monzo app but there’s no such thing when making purchases over the phone? Like, it’s convenient given I’m currently using said device as a phone but I’ve really come to rely on that feature for piece of mind
I feel really inspired by the words of people like Jonathan Blow and Drew Devault but I just have no idea how to apply their ethos to the react-based SPA I have to build at work. It seems their advice is just to run away from such things, but that’s not particularly helpful.
TIL the .amazon TLD is owned by Amazon, the company, and is not available to the native people of, you know, the world’s largest rainforest.
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"We didn't tell McDonalds, 'You need to figure out how to feed schoolchildren'—we had schools do it. The way to fix the problem of connecting people is to focus on local orgs & governments with incentives to connect them, not by asking Comcast to solve it."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8_F3TVwvk
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my friend who teaches kids, just schooled me on tentacles vs arms
Feeling like an experienced professional as I foresee complications in different design decisions whilst on a morning walk
git bisect is amazing! How have I never come across this feature before??
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ukpol, voter ID, ERS petition
@porsupah I don't think the government pays much attention to random petitions, but there is already one up on the official petition site that's getting signatures at a good pace https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576024
Just learning about the resurgence of companies pursuing super-sonic commercial flights, which to me just sounds like an absolutely awful idea. The last thing we need is the world’s super rich polluting more, both for climate change and for not ruining the otherwise quiet rural spaces between cities.
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Terminals should have a "scroll up to the last shell prompt" hotkey.
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You know... I wonder how many infrastructure engineers and SREs consider the environmental impact of their infrastructures. I tend to think fairly commonly along those lines and I hadn't until today it suddenly clicked for me that if I'm pissy about NFTs, I should probably also be pissy about the giant mega-clouds I've managed for no purpose other than make text string X link to text string Y in a database.
Pretty funny SMBC comic on cryptocurrencies https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nanacoin
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“HTML Sanitizer API”
This is a great idea. Hope it gets implemented. Kind of wonder why Chromers have been wasting time on Bluetooth or USB APIs that other browsers won’t implement when low-hanging fruit like this is still unpicked. https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/
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Covid, Bayes' Theorem
"Maths quiz. If you get a positive result on a Covid test that only gives a false positive one time in every 1,000, what’s the chance that you’ve actually got Covid?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U4D0wJNYtWs Always love the random things this guy does with lasers
Grolar bears is objectively a better portmanteau than Pizzly bears https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/polar-bears-are-mating-with-grizzlies-to-become-pizzly-bears/
If currencies were divisible by 12, like say if there were 240 pennies in a pound, everybody’s salary would divide perfectly into 12 equal paycheques. #£sd
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Heard about #Gemini, want to try this new way to access information on the Internet but you're not technically inclined and you don't appreciate instructions such as "git clone, and read the INSTALL.md file"?
Then read the Gemini Quickstart:
https://geminiquickst.art/
Also on Gemini, of course: gemini://geminiquickst.art/
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
