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I still need the book, but look forward to this!
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RT @paulschun
Wed, Sep 7: Clojure Tokyo hosts @viebel, author of Data-Oriented Programming, who'll discuss ways to communicate data-oriented programming.

Because if you expect "just use maps!" to make sense to OOP programmers... 🤡

Asia Clojurians: RTs appreciated! https://www.meetup.com/clojure-tokyo/events/287668110/
https://twitter.com/paulschun/status/1559809867799756800

Preparing to address some colleagues. What are your top selling points TO NON-TECHY users about why #Zulip instead of Slack?

@souldessin nice explanation :) Reminds me of stories I have heard of hold-overs from original C/Assembly who try to save memory with shorter variable names. In fact, I still see lots of historical examples of variable-name-truncation in timeless things like Emacs

@souldessin why compress, though? It only hurts later reading/maintenance, for a few bytes of savings that might not be worth the time it takes to do that rewrite.

In a couple of weeks I'll be making a case to my non-programmer colleagues for why Zulip instead of familiar, everyone-is-doing-it Slack. And those are the points they feel for Slack. This is for inter-office comms. What points would you make for Zulip?

Why is simple capitalization and appearing to care about your subject lines such an obvious shibboleth for spam?

Really handy CSS rules for things including scroll behavior, lettor background images (instead of color), `inset`, multiline text truncation https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1559117844205473794.html

This is why I avoid using the shorthands. Just be clear: padding-left, padding-right, padding-top, padding-bottom. Make readable code. It's worth the keystrokes.
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RT @csaba_kissi
Understand different padding definitions in CSS
https://twitter.com/csaba_kissi/status/1559168625608691717

I am a huge fan of using #Babashka to replace Bash wherever sensible. However, the majority of my Bash scripts are just flat invocations of certain CLI programs with args, sometimes in a sequence. Am I correct in assuming that Babashka would be overkill for these?

In concept, Quora really struck upon something. But in practice, they botched it. Still, sometimes there is valuable content there. Other times, like this, a single t.*t can answer.

1- #!
2- Ecosystem and inertia
3- Why would Microsoft care what Linus thinks? Also, see #2

formulaic changes need to be made to some repeating content: 3 different #emacs options:

1. Replace [regexp] heavy lifting. Can perform actual functions on match groups.
2. Macros. Easiest: hit "record", do you thing in such a way as to be ready for the very next one, save/repeat. Can be saved as a function if you love it.
3. Multiple Cursors. One-off, but the quickest if you can see your targets on the screen and don't want to think about more steps.