Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

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am finally done with twitter

what got me was the incredible degree of disgust from discovering that i have some kind of flag set that lets me say "cis" wantonly while my peers cannot

fuck everything about that

... what if my legal name was Aria Maker Of Desires

Thinking about submitting a talk proposal to a quirky lil tech conference with the working title "It’s Easier to Learn a Programming Language than a Foreign Language: An Unpopular Opinion."

For "who is she to claim this!?" context: I learned how to code as an adult, after ~ 8 years teaching English as a second/foreign language. I have an M.A. in this area, and am versed in linguistics and the science of second language acquisition.

Would you want to hear this talk? Or will I be heckled lol...

any good new scifi out there, ideally without useless techno-violence, weapon glorification and warfare? please send me

@HalvarFlake I have found it helpful to talk to GenAi when stuck on a problem, but I suspect it's just a more advanced (and less self-conscious) form of rubber-duck debugging. I wonder if anyone has tried talking through their (technical) issues with ELIZA...

Kinda weird that it seems to me that GenAI has made writing boilerplate or throwaway code much faster, but debugging remains an unchangedly difficult skill.

Hello Sigmoid Social users!

Wow, Sigmoid Social has been around for over 2.5 years now, how time flies...

Just want mention we are very much still around as administrators and moderators of this Mastodon instance behind the scenes.

We appear to have reached a steady-state of a decent number of users, and we love that some of you still benefit from this instance.

Please do message or email us if you want to suggest improvements or changes!

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Who'd be interested in an event with talks and some performances around making notations and programming languages for pattern-making (textile, musical, choreographic etc)? Half focussed online, half focussed in-person, all streamed. Mix of open call and invited talks. All free/open access. Probably in January. Maybe called "Programming Of The Art Computer".

Office cleanout: finding these stickers brought back good memories. I truly loved Urchin — it was the best analytics system I’d ever seen, crunched your http logs and gave you great web stats.

It became Google Analytics.

Ever wonder why URLs today sometimes have the letters ?utm in them… it stands for Urchin Tracking Module!

Adventure was had

TIL that the purported skull of Mary Magdalene is enshrined in a gold reliquary in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in France, and that reliquary is _the_ most Warhammer-40k-looking real thing I have ever seen in my life, bar none.

So… retired/unemployed programmers or employed ones who’d like to contribute to open source:

What do you think of a “Civilian Documentation Corps”¹?

There are tons of contributed packages to popular languages that are fine but underused because underdocumented. Some of the package owners are well-intentioned but no good at documentation or don’t understand its importance. Why not swoop in with an offer of help? (1/6)