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The unsubscribe link for this recruiter email I received includes a UPN identifier of around 700 characters that gets stuck on the URL query args to match the unsubscriber to the email. In all seriousness, why wouldn't a regular 16-char UUID have done the trick? I thought the whole point of UUIDs is that they would be virtually impossible to collide?

@folduptoys The deeper problem is having an education system geared at employment, based on suiting the businesses. This is not a healthy synergy. Maybe even parasitic, like the brain-mold of certain jungle ants.

Since I change layouts regularly, I write QWERTY with a Dvorak accent

Finally used fnil in : to extend a function to support nil case without NPE-ing you! My use: a function that needs to handle strings, collections, or nil, and doesn't know which it will get.

Logic errors. Where would we be without them? "Why is that Javascript running too soon?" "Why is that SQL failing to count availability?" "Why is does my function incorrectly know when 'busy' and 'not busy'"?

I want to migrate my account from bookwyrm.social to a different instance of bookwyrm. How can it be done?

I oversaw the creation of a app for room five years ago. It has been good, and has been in heavy use since then -- but suddenly has some issues, probably from logic -- and I desperately want a a la .

@icedquinn Big agreement on this, though. Being the internal utility of a major organization + being open sourced can only help.

@icedquinn I believe DropBox dropped Zulip years ago, or at least Open Sourced them after ~18 months. I'm not sure whether Dropbox currently is financial sway on Zulip, but Dropbox did provide a burst of funding for the pre-release version back in 2018. zulip.com/history/

@icedquinn I highly recommend Zulip. Unlike other communication tools (Slack, Teams, Discord) it is based on a long-standing standard which it implements and enhances (email), and is also an excellent member of the Open Source community. I tried out their Docker version and was pretty pleased, then switched to their free hosted version so I didn't have to fiddle with Apache/Nginx/Docker stuff.

Another great function: because it supports to post, it is possible for me to send my same daily standup message to the three different groups to which it applies. You can multi-post when the recipient groups don't share a view.

I use the excellent app; then it's easy to open a given link in a text-browser is pretty nice for avoiding annoying ads (could also use Spray mode to speed read it, if I want, instead of the two-pane reading view).

The data coming through the pipeline on one view was missing a crucial piece. It was sweet to be able to add it to the back-end function that is gathering the data, evaluate the form, and boom! It was there for my front-end view as soon as I used my usual endpoint.

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