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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
Call me crazy, but I sort of love #Clojure stacktraces. They are so incredibly useful for debugging. #refactoring
The Beauty of #Clojure as a #DataOriented language really shone for me yesterday when I was data crawling -- nay, slogging -- through a big #PHP multi-type nested blob.
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Was it an #AprilFools that #Spotify made autoplay on my home screen as I browse in supposed silence? Scathing responses: https://piunikaweb.com/2023/03/30/spotifys-autoplay-feed-on-new-homepage-ui-annoys-some-users/ . Found a sort-of official work-around. https://www.reddit.com/r/truespotify/comments/12a8fd9/why_do_i_have_playlists_autoplaying_on_my_home/
#github your "abundance of caution" is super annoying, and costing us lots of time and broke our CICD. Still, probably better than hacks. https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
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The simple beauty of modulus arithmetic extended to 3D, coded in #clojure. Inspired by some of @guidoschmidt recent renders :)
Finalizing a project, #emacs with #dired and #kmacros was the right tool for bulk replacing per-file CSS https://orys.us/uL
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Here's a first: did a Google search on something and one of my own Mastodon posts came up as a result.
Beginning to think that the cultural norm here of not allowing search isn't going to last all that much longer.
webxdc: at least 200 times more interesting than Web3 :)
I am really interested in this tech, #decentralized and #libre #webxdc #deltachat
@zulip Good to know. Thanks for the reply!
@Jerome That's true. All I know is that stuff "finished" and unmaintained now breaks because of Java...
@souldessin actually that does make me wonder if it had something to do with the hour -- perhaps the email service on free tier isn't 24/7?
@zulip and... it's back now, and all my queued messages went through at once 😂
One of the big downsides to being a hosted language like #Clojure is that, regardless of how awesomely stable the ideology with the language itself, you can't avoid problems if your host decides to make breaking changes. I am still doing damage control on the painful #Java 9+ #CoreChanges, where they decided it was time to shrink Java's core library and various dependent packages broke.
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We are excited to announce that
@zulip will be participating in the
Google Summer of Code program for the 8th time this year. Anyone new to #opensource development can apply -- we'd love to see you in our community! #GSoC2023
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/organizations/zulip
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I remember seeing some research about productivity and remote work--they studied both telemarketers and customer service reps handing inbound service or support calls.
The employees taking inbound calls did better working remote, but the telemarketers did better co-located (because they could pump each other up in between getting hung up on or yelled at)
Anyone else remember this and have a link?
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This is good: When JavaScript Fails
https://medium.com/@jason.godesky/when-javascript-fails-52eef47e90db
#frontend #JavaScript #progressiveEnhancement
@icedquinn social things that report "online status" of users really bug me. I'm always hidden on Discord and Battle.net, except when it actually breaks functionality
The problem with the @username syntax is that, while the functionality is as common as emojis, it depends on the implementation of whatever host -- so what you write on Mastodon will not be treated the same on Twitter, or Instagram, or Telegram, or wherever else you are @ing. So hashtags are a much more universally portable way of communicating, and don't require linkage to a particular account or service. Also, a pity it doesn't have a formal name, like "octothorpe". #HashtagsNotAtSign
I guess that's the story of Google. And possibly FaceBook.
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
