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Enjoying a : "Design, Composition, and Performance". "Design is about taking things apart in such a way that they can be put back together again." youtu.be/QCwqnjxqfmY

@icedquinn I doubt lisp is producing the compiled artifact there. I would assume it's fronting some other library.

RT @dawranliou
The UI (both visual and non visual) is so good ✨

Uncluttered, timeless, self-documented and endlessly customizable to fit your workflows. Good job to all the free software contributors!

RT @kiraemclean
Humans are not machines. Putting in longer hours leads to less productivity not more and is literally a waste of time. twitter.com/hillelogram/status

RT @TPXimpact
At @swirrl, they help government agencies across the UK publish their data as 5 star open data.

What's that?

Here's an explainer from @kiraemclean

medium.swirrl.com/exploring-da

RT @ramsey
We used to say things like, “Don’t write a web server in PHP. Always use the right tool for the job.” Then we wrote web servers in JavaScript.

I was recently trolled that "is only used by 3% of developers, so is completely irrelevant." There are many good responses, but what would yours be?

I have been annoyed at the informal prevalence of proprietary MatLab among some of my colleagues, and didn't realize that R is a direct alternative for most problem-spaces. I much prefer the opensource mode of R. Some useful comparisons:
educba.com/matlab-vs-r/
statanalytica.com/blog/r-vs-ma

There are methods of coding that are complete paradigm shifts. Algol-style was my default, such as Java, C, JavaScript, and distantly, Python. Then I learned functional programming, completely changing my approach to problems.

And then there is CSS, which is itself a completely different experience. Different debugging, development, and problem[solving] space.

Two types of simplicity: the monolith (emphasis MONO) and the Linux approach, single-purpose composable. threadreaderapp.com/thread/155

Back to a language with state and syntax -- "how do I linebreak within flex display?" Answer seems to be `flex-direction "column"`

@icedquinn github thought it could do that with "Pull Request". One of my students asked me recently, "doesn't merge request make more sense?"

@redstarfish I know I can follow accounts at those other places, but can I log in with one of my Fediverse accounts?

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