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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Sometimes I think we really need a codified constitution in the U.K., especially when the government just need a majority to do away with stuff like the Fixed-term Parliaments Act
This whole debate around copilot has actually restored some faith in the industry — am seeing some really nuanced views around copyright, reducing the friction on producing bad code, and the continued centralisation of power to big tech
If I had a reason to write documents in my spare time, I could very easily see myself getting into antique typewriters
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food
My daughter read about making butter by shaking cream and was very excited about the idea, so we tried it this morning.
I've never done it before, it's fun! There's a really weird moment where you have a jar of whipped cream and it seems like no matter how hard you shake nothing is happening, the whipped cream is just stuck to the sides of the jar and not moving...
then suddenly it separates all at once into a solid chunk of butter and a liquid puddle of buttermilk, it’s like magic!
I get there’s a whole campaign to make social media less addictive for them, by what oh why can’t I add a video intended for children to a playlist. I just cannot fathom the logic behind that one
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Matt Hancock is a hypocrite.
Sack him.
That's all!
TIL closed captioning for TV broadcast in the 1970s was more capable than YouTube’s today. If that doesn’t say everything about the state of modern software…
Why are all the vaccination centres so far away from train stations? I’m looking at a 3 hours journey there and a 3 journey back! I’m lucky, I can take the day off if need be, but we should be making it easy for people.
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My girlfriend: Do you know what "Node.js: Server-side JavaScript" is?
Me: Yeah, why are you asking?
Her: Is it a virus?
Me: Weeeell... 😆
(turns out Adobe Cloud is now running two node processes on her Windows machine)
Learning APL is like learning to program all over again; just so alien
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Possibly the nerdiest argument I've ever heard is claiming that #haskell programmers should stop calling <*> the "TIE fighter" and start calling it the "TIE advanced".
I love it!
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These "but commutes are good actually!" articles are really cheesing me off. They all boil down to people enjoying dedicated break time where they have no work or personal responsibilities. You don't need a commute for that, you need boundaries.
Who needs a new season of Black Mirror when we have Apple’s WWDC keynote?
Surprised the Tories haven’t come up with a campaign for people to holiday domestically this summer. Would boost our tourism industry, would prevent the inevitable anger at the changing international rules, and I would have thought they’d want to encourage some sense of national unity being the “conservative and unionist party”, and all…
Stumbled across this introduction to APL from 1975; awesome little video. Wish there was a way for me to get some hands-on experience with computers of that era https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
What a strange article; it’s been right there on his Wikipedia article since the 5th April last year…
Cold welding is basically the same thing as stacking portions of lasagna
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" (!))
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
