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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
I am beginning to think that my #email client setup is too good. For me, writing, reading, and searching email is easier and more pleasant than #Slack or any other messaging platform, and I forget that not everyone has such a positive experience with it. I get baffled when people express email fatigue rather than anything else fatigue.
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I hit #unsubscribe and went to a page that said "it looks like you don't want to receive emails from us anymore." Then the actual unsub place was 3-clicks deep. Is that passive aggression?
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
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
