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Derived from https://xkcd.com/303/ to express my own experience. I don't often spend time compiling in my work as a webdev, but TDD and the regression tests take some serious time.

@howard@emacs.ch I get it. In practice, I do need to restart sometimes when I am switching work locations, and also when I'm hacking in my #emacs init file...

Any kind of content creator (and I am not a serious one) needs to sometimes cause the site caches to update for the image previews. I've done it for Twitter back before it got hijaXed; it was pretty simple for #Telegram, though.
https://orys.us/u-

#emacs is really really good at "undo". Undo localized to an area, visual undotree for when that goes bad; options for saving undo between sessions (which I don't use because I don't know what a session is... #NeverExit)

@IAmDannyBoling @Yuki argh... my first try

I regard Browser Support as a litmus test. "Not supported" in an up-to-date FireFox is just showing that you aren't serious about Web Dev. Especially you, #MicrosoftTeams

@oatmeal@emacs.ch
@worldsendless@mastodon.online
that's my non-tech account. I think you mean this one, @worldsendless

The pamphlet lists this as one of the bad signs, but I'm telling you -- same room #texting rocks for sharing plans without interruption in a room full of kids #HealthyLiving #DigitalDetox #PrivateInPublic

Can I just say how good #OpenSource makes me feel? No, I can't; I need some backup. But really, XTDB vs Datomic, Zulip vs Teams, WordPress vs. other stuff... I get a ping of joy every time I see an update about some discussion or some PR/MR/Patch for the OS ones, like I actually know what, where, and when things are happening.

Finally retrieved my little #keyboard. Feels so good! Look at those ridiculous bottom rows. 13 keys space wasted with irregular size. #Planck #Isolinear #Matrix #QWERTY

@trinsec I would love to get a reference on that :)

It is with sorrow that I prepare to say goodbye to #Zulip. Our office and greater organization has decided upon #MicrosoftTeams, and comms require everyone to play along. Nonetheless I am compiling a list of pros and cons. I had nothing but positive to say about my personal dealings with Zulip and expect us to be able to come back when my colleagues realize that Teams is inferior.

I have recently switched to xlock as my screensaver. It's fine. But when I login with my password and the screenlock goes away, my active cursor seems to somewhere outside my window manager. When I click on one of my windows it comes back, so it's no big deal. But curiosity bids me ask, where is the focus at, if not where I left it?

In the beginning I was a big fan of the open source ethos. Google stood by "do no evil," Microsoft was the bad guy, open source was this exciting untamed frontier, and I went to school and learned about Tim Berners Lee and Stallman's manifesto. Today, though, everything seems backward, there is this aura of gloom about whether open source has or is facing death, and my life-long distaste for ads has come to a crisis. Surely there is some other way of invigorating Open Source and the Web than advertising or selling user personal data?

Nothing like a #printer to make you feel you don't know how to use tech. First it was not portrait orientation; then it was not double-sided; then it was 8-pt text because it was "scaling." Sorry, Grandma; I hope you have a magnifying glass, because I'm not printing it again.