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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
@souldessin I am a fan of Calibre, and have been using it for longer than I've been using Linux! But how do I get it to clean things up?
@writh yeah, an old book from archive.org. Done right, epubs have certain advantages over pdfs. But apparently they can be done very wrong...
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New article about my 2023 "tour of the #lisp languages".
#epub. A good thing: officially standardized by the W3C https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck . However, some auto-generated epub seems to be rubbish; 3 out of 4 of my epub readers failed to parse the epub, even after editing missing fields per https://www.edrlab.org/open-standards/anatomy-of-an-epub-3-file/ . I'm not sure how the 4th one managed it, but it's pretty ugly. Guess I'm sticking with #pdf on this one.
@Nundrum I found the issue, which was as stupid as I had suspected: I had something misspelled as "mastadon" rather than "mastodon", and it was looking for a function that didn't exist. Shadow should probably be more explicit about errors like that in my shadow-cljs.edn
My #ClojureScript #ShadowCLJS is not hotloading, although its codebase is just a copy of another that worked beatifully, and that a copy of another that never had troubles, either. I've looked over every difference I can find and see nothing. The WATCHER is working fine; when I make a code change, I see a spinner. But updates don't actually appear. React Devtools also show that nothing is connected. But manual hitting "refresh" works, though it feels like I'm back in the stone ages...
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O frabjous day!
The good news here for those outside the EU is that Apple will have to keep WebKit good enough that users choose to keep Safari even in the face of growth hacking by other browser vendors—so that means a better open-source Webkit for all platforms in all jurisdictions
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/apple-dma-webkit/
(Apple has already been on this for a while--a lot of Safari #webcompat issues have been fixed, and there is a lot of nifty CSS there)
@greenCoder @plexus I don't know about the embassy on this, but it turns out this was indeed a high issue https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226815949/tea-salt-controversy-us-uk
@freemo Ah! Vampirilogy! I didn't know that one
@icedquinn I first read this as being about programming languages, not music. Left out C# and possibly F# though
@freemo is that Bram Stoker vampires, or Anne Rice, or ...?
@freemo lol Is the "invite in" vampire mythos? I've been scouring the internet for leads and found some fascinating threads on demonology, but can't find an exact source for the "they have to be invited" concept
@freemo Well, Jesus, yes; but not the Dracula mirror thing, nor the clever demonology "invite in" crossover
I am a big fan of extending old, good technologies rather than recreating the wheel. #Email is one of these; both #DeltaChat and @zulip #zulip do this, in very different and equally inspiring ways.
As far as I can tell, the Achilles Heel of email is that it is TOO easy, and that has given rise to its antithesis, #spam.
@freemo 🤣 Mixing your mythos a little there. What inspired this joke?
@freeschool I was on github and I middle-clicked to view the running process in a testing cycle --and it just worked, opening the dynamic thing in a new tab
My #Firefox has crashed three times today, without warning -- I just look up and its gone. It's never done that to me before! The only new thing I can think of is that I've added Discord to its work load...
@icedquinn apparently Odin is a C-replacement with a specialty already in industry for graphics work
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
