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RT @popey
... and people complain that Linux is inconsistent, complex and confusing. 🧵 twitter.com/cabel/status/14476

WordPress PHP, Wordpress CSS, MySQL, and apparently much JSON all have actionable comments. What am I supposed to think of that?

@souldessin especially true since the original refers only to ways of communication, so docs, tests, demos, examples, etc

@souldessin Help me out here -- are you agreeing with the :explaining is important" post, or the "if you have to explain it, it's bad" that is being responded to?

I am sick and tired of constantly reviewing settings in web browsers to see if they have snuck in some new tracking mechanism that I get to disable because "your privacy is important to us".

I am sick and tired of all the black UX that goes into this, like opt out instead of opt in, or at least providing top level choices like, say, Fuck NO I'd NEVER EVER Like You To Track ANYTHING Now And In Every Perceivable Future. Like sync'ing every setting in your profile except tracking related settings, because hey that way you might by mistake opt out of tracking on another installation where you really wanted to be tracked. The list goes on and on.

Browsers are critical infrastructure and clearly an open source stamp on them fails in itself to provide any meaningful shield towards capitalist subversion.

I'd like a browser with a license that explicitly rules out *any* kind of commercial entity or interest contributing or directing development.

#surveillancecapitalism

Looking forward to this, despite some schedule conflicts. Maybe we'll get some Bayesian ?
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RT @wh1lo
I am looking forward to hear what you think about probabilistic programming and compiler building in Clojure and Python! 🙏 twitter.com/daslu_/status/1446
twitter.com/wh1lo/status/14478

Really? When did this happen? Cool!
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RT @Prathkum
HTML Tip 💡

Use "translate" attribute and set it value to "no" for your company name.

So that in case, the webpage is translated into another language, your brand name will remain intact.
twitter.com/Prathkum/status/14

Suddenly there are all these tweets with clouds of hash tags on tech Twitter, and an image. Little actual message. I didn't see this last week. What happened?

RT @girba
Just because something sounds funny, does not make it true. This is one of those cases 👇.

I know the joke is meant well, but we should embrace the opposite view: we should actively strive to explain code in many ways. This is essential in software engineering. twitter.com/housecor/status/40

The message is interesting, but the site is horrible and the article just click+boat. Yeah, not even worth spell correcting that... So sorry 😒
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RT @itsfoss2
If you're a content creator, you may consider switching to Linux. Here's why:

news.itsfoss.com/linux-content


twitter.com/itsfoss2/status/14

Maybe I've hit programmer zen. I have patience with tech issues because it's tech. But those people who DON'T have patience and get frustrated at the tech lifecycle!! Yes, it sucks right now. So does my infant. Just give them time to grow up!

Some readable and codebases. Discussing readability requires an obligatory mention of @elementsofclj book too.

- This project tangles orgmode to for literate programming. github.com/thi-ng/geom/blob/fe

- For a major used library, I knew I couldn't go wrong with Corfield, so check out HoneySQL github.com/seancorfield/honeys

- Here is a new in-development one with the Lambda Island stamp of approval, asd seems pretty readable to me:
github.com/lambdaisland/deja-f

- And here is a small old "finished" one where I recently read the code to figure out how to do what the docs didn't mention:
github.com/alandipert/storage-

You know, email is potentially gloriously decentralized, at least in principle. I kind of love it.

Until you centralize with gmail.

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