(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

@souldessin why compress, though? It only hurts later reading/maintenance, for a few bytes of savings that might not be worth the time it takes to do that rewrite.

In a couple of weeks I'll be making a case to my non-programmer colleagues for why Zulip instead of familiar, everyone-is-doing-it Slack. And those are the points they feel for Slack. This is for inter-office comms. What points would you make for Zulip?

Why is simple capitalization and appearing to care about your subject lines such an obvious shibboleth for spam?

Really handy CSS rules for things including scroll behavior, lettor background images (instead of color), `inset`, multiline text truncation https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1559117844205473794.html

This is why I avoid using the shorthands. Just be clear: padding-left, padding-right, padding-top, padding-bottom. Make readable code. It's worth the keystrokes.
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RT @csaba_kissi
Understand different padding definitions in CSS
https://twitter.com/csaba_kissi/status/1559168625608691717

I am a huge fan of using #Babashka to replace Bash wherever sensible. However, the majority of my Bash scripts are just flat invocations of certain CLI programs with args, sometimes in a sequence. Am I correct in assuming that Babashka would be overkill for these?

In concept, Quora really struck upon something. But in practice, they botched it. Still, sometimes there is valuable content there. Other times, like this, a single t.*t can answer.

1- #!
2- Ecosystem and inertia
3- Why would Microsoft care what Linus thinks? Also, see #2

formulaic changes need to be made to some repeating content: 3 different #emacs options:

1. Replace [regexp] heavy lifting. Can perform actual functions on match groups.
2. Macros. Easiest: hit "record", do you thing in such a way as to be ready for the very next one, save/repeat. Can be saved as a function if you love it.
3. Multiple Cursors. One-off, but the quickest if you can see your targets on the screen and don't want to think about more steps.

Tabs are at inferior browsing -management idea. Emacs buffers win 100 times over! Ah, it killed me to be out of #EXWM
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RT @fndriven
NEVER! https://twitter.com/firefox/status/1558153493365395456
https://twitter.com/fndriven/status/1558409075205062661

I can't find documentation anywhere on how to get a per -project PostGres (using the -D data directory option) to listen on the usual port. The only thing I read out there uses Unix sockets, which aren't good for me. I can't find docs anywhere!

I just learned about http://HTMX.org, and it seems really interesting. @obryant666 I hear that Biff is using it now?

Thanks to a TV-screen monitor in one of my offices, I can actually recognize this UTF character

There is this old idea of "let's make code more like natural language" [ie English]. I'm confronted with one minor language that was based on that ideal, and I laugh. I studied linguistics and rhetoric; "code like natural language" doesn't even mean anything, and there is no universe in which it would be an actual good idea. I suspect that these idealists are mostly American, as here we have a special sort of linguistic ignorance.