(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

In our #Clojure meeting today we demonstrated and discussed nil/null as the dirty boolean value, especially baked in to SQL. If your boolean allows null, it is actually a trilean. But we have a stakeholder who wants "null" to indicate "you haven't filled this in yet; look here!" It's when the dirty booleans sneak up on you that you really need to watch out. And yes, we did discuss the optional third arg of #Clojure getter functions, for when your business logic needs to know whether its NOT THERE vs when its just FALSEY.

It wasn't THAT long of a recording, but with RecondMyDesktop and three monitors, that's almost 300gb. No wonder it takes AGES to encode these things.

Oh yeah. April 1st, remember?

A call for an app-less world. This should me comfortable for #mastodon users: open source, shared protocols. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaudUum06E

Our governing super-organization (University) has recently grown a liking to changing tech on which we've relied for over a decade: email filters, VPNs, DNS routing systems... resulting in feature loss and breakage with no alternatives provided, and apparently no user testing.

days where the LOC written is negative are good days
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RT @lisperati
It's amazing how much you can simplify some computer programs by just looking at every line and asking: "If I took this line out of the program, would the program still work? What would it take to alter the program somehow so that I COULD remove this line and still have it work?"
https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1508953596964089859

Why does this trick work? I don't fully know. But I use it to recover from lost screens every day (5+ times just today, in fact). https://orys.us/ul #exwm #xwindow

Nice #humor
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RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
the linux world is in tatters now https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/tqtuys
https://twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/1508730709489471489

So webpack offers excellent speedy hot-reloading now?
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RT @juxtpro
JUXT engineer and front-end wizard @alexthings1 spoke at @RNLmeetup about building #ReactNative apps using ClojureScript. It's an intro to #ClojureScript for Javascript developers, and this accompanying blog also contrasts the dev experience, JS vs CLJS https://www.juxt.pro/blog/cljs-for-js-devs
https://twitter.com/juxtpro/status/1508777308278116355

@souldessin Yeah, I suspect that's what Chrome is doing when it reports "your browser lacks the right technical features". I believe there have been other places where Google Chrome exceeds the consortium standards in order to give itself some advantages.

Why is it @Firefox doesn't have the technology necessary for graphical features on Zoom or Meet calls like blurred backgrounds, or special effects, or other things that Chrome can pull off?

Where would you expect a service to put your "Delete Account" button? On Quora, it turns out it's in the "Privacy" settings. I would never have found it.

Things of beauty. Now I sometimes use text browsers to regain some of that... simplicity. Although the W3M text results are actually prettier.
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RT @WebDesignMuseum
Early versions of websites of big technology companies in the 1990s

Amazon in 1995
Microsoft in 1994
Macromedia in 1995
Yahoo in 1994

#InternetHistory
https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1508447567780081669

If you don't already have one of these this is handy. It will go alongside my "http responses" cheat sheet
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RT @hackinarticles
Best of PORTS Cheat Sheet

#infosec #cybersecurity #cybersecuritytips #pentesting #oscp #informationsecurity #cissp #CyberSec #networking #networksecurity #CheatSheet #infosecurity #cyberattacks #security #linux #UniX #vulnerabilities
https://twitter.com/hackinarticles/status/1507612330711924740