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When things are just failing to work, but with no error -- and they've been working fine for years. No recent system updates, either. ARGH!

But then, in a rather un-linux moment, rebooting the machine seems to have cleared the problem.

Is js null truthy in Clojurescript? Not only do I not know the answer, I don't even know how to write it. I thought it might be js/null, but no dice. Anyone?

something every web dev should read. I wish I'd read it long ago: the precise arithmetic of CSS selectors. https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#specificity-rules

@tennoseremel@mstdn.io awesome! There can I learn more about those preference numbers for selectors? I have never seen it given numeric precision before.

@glidedon@noagendasocial.com yikes! But agree or not, at least the gov't claims duty to support needs. No such promise with incidentally functional business features.

Ouch. The pain of basing your business on someone else's .
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RT @threadreaderapp
@Cyberneticist Hi, you can read it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496174626434469889.html Have a good day. 🤖
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1496379058946510848

Mutability and scope issues are two things I'm not usually pained by
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RT @thenextweb
Yes, it’s beginner-friendly… until confusion hits https://thenextweb.com/news/python-may-be-easy-but-its-a-mess?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1645606568
https://twitter.com/thenextweb/status/1496454953015169031

@101101000 @icedquinn oh . I've never invested money into a database , and don't expect to ever. A guilty confession .

@101101000 @icedquinn I don't know about marketing, but I know that in my pilot usage it has been fun and fast, plus Datalog is an interesting change from MySQL. Don't get me wrong -- PostGres is absolutely awesome and we have used it in production for years with no real regrets. But being in the development circles for XTDB and giving it some simple usage, and things have been impressive for my simple use cases.

@icedquinn @101101000 which website now?

@101101000 yes, XTDB is a slick bitemporal document database backed by Postgres or RocksDB (or some other options). Bitemporal meaning every entry has a transaction time and a effective time, so things like soft deletes and rich update logs are built in, and queries can specify state-at-time

@icedquinn The selector I shared, trying to override that, is from Bootstrap. I'm using a library which uses un-targetted hrefs to do on-click things. (should be buttons not anchors, I know...)