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@ianp5a ah! That makes excellent sense. I live 45 miles from my on-site office, so drive to the nearest train and take transit the rest of the way. I did consider figuring out how to tie cycling in to that process, though, but didn't get it worked out.

@ianp5a how have you gotten out of driving?

@ianp5a haha :) that made me laugh. I forgot about that company even more than I forget about WordPerfect

Often I search for something like, "What's the OS Alt for XYZ?" But now I wonder, "what's the proprietary version of it?" In particular, I have no idea what is the off-the-shelf equivalent that a lay user might know for #Inkscape?

All the businesses and companies and content creators are still on Twitter. And so a bunch of users stay on Twitter because they need IRL updates from those guys. So it's a cycle...

@rml ah! I didn't realize that Haskell had that problem. Yeah, I find that Clojure spoils me whenever I work in other environments where I need to be fearful of breaking changes when updating. I forget to be careful and get stung!

@rml it took me a re-read to grok that, but you make good points: programmer first, and pragmatism

@icedquinn I would take heart if they ever displayed some sense of regret, but it's not on their radar at all

@icedquinn inspired by the fact that I hate Twitter but they don't, and they are also shamelessly entrenched in Twitch and YouTube

I just realized that the career of "content creator" may be incompatible with tech ethics in the same way that "prostitute" is an incompatible career with "Christian preacher." And all gamers I'm aware of (see what I did there?) are content creators, too.

I just learned of https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html, which seems to be an alternative to #git forges like Github and Gitlab. If I'm not mistaken, I don't manage repos large enough to need it. But I love to see #GPL #FOSS stuff and to learn that some really big players are using #gitolite (Redhat, the Linux Kernel, KDE).

@samplereality was that a self-imposed restraint or were you using a tool that enforced it?

Those in #clojure who have not read the History of Clojure paper by Rich really should; great to get a step into Rich's head and to see the evolution of the language. https://www.scribd.com/document/470916091/clojure-hopl-iv-final

@carnage4life I have not had a capslock key on my keyboard for years...

@samplereality I haven't inspected it, but the gentle motion, the white-on-black, and the fading/coming in to focus of things. I spend much of my time coding and would get distracted by, "how can I make it do this?"

@samplereality That was amazing and touching. That kind of expression means that you were not inhibited/distracted by technical matters; what did you use that you could express yourself so artfully?

Predictable conclusion of the NPM debacle: failed to load due to a circular dependency somewhere.