rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

I've always felt like something was off about Nebula.

https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-952a1c12d9c0

None of the really hard problems in software engineering are going to be solved by new programming tools.

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

Every programming language with the === operator is a language where the designer made a mistake and has since had to paper over the cracks.

Salt brings out the flavour in food, and is essential in our diet. Pepper just makes things taste of pepper.

So many people don't want to admit it but a tax increase for the wealthiest in society is a pretty easy fix for most societal problems. I know it's not exactly fair but they can afford it and the rest of us can't

petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"

Tubs of fresh soup are the wrong size. They're slightly too big for one serving, and slightly too small for two.

20 degrees celcius is the hottest the weather ever needs to get. Anything more is pointless. It's warm enough to wear a t shirt and shorts and to get a tan.

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

Three years ago, astronauts aboard the International Space Station jettisoned an SUV-sized collection of trash that was supposed to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Now it looks like a piece of it just crashed through a house in Florida. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-struck-a-home-in/

Oh for fuck’s sake, people.

I keep hearing and reading that working remotely will ruin a junior developer's career because they'll miss a lot of important learning without those "water cooler moments" and I can't help feeling that any profession which relies on random social interactions to instill the foundations has bigger problems.

Also, when are we going to let go of the assumption that working remotely = working alone?

As we do our silly Chicago tradition of dyeing the river a violent shade of green, I think it's a good time to remind people that our ancestors *reversed the flow of the river* to provide safe drinking water from Lake Michigan and earlier, in the 1860's, *lifted the entire city* to improve drainage and public health.

Remember that any time someone says heat pumps and renewable energy are hard.