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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
@avelino That is an excellent question. I think it comes down to whether the benefits of cross-pollination out-weigh the problems with too much entanglement. In this case, my view is that emacs is a clear winner, because it excels at interfaces and text-management, and the since those things can be very profitably construed into that problem space, Emacs benefits outweigh the down-sides. Not only does one get to keep benefits of common highly-developed interface, the considerable cognitive burden of context-shifting is minimized. This is a clear win in my view.
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Had the honour to be guest on the first episode of "Show me your REPL" with @niquola !
@alpha1beta @AndiS Thanks for the reply. That was my understanding -- that there is no client-less way of interacting with stuff. But I thought I'd double check.
I think this way of thinking might encourage full-blog responses to things, which isn't necessarily bad.
@alpha1beta Is there any way of interacting with them other than logging in to a client?
RT @tonyaldon
Sometimes you want the power of text, sometimes you want the power of data.
In org-mode buffer there is no trade-off, we have both!
Indeed the content of an org-mode buffers is not only TEXT...
IT IS ALSO DATA.
AND THIS IS #emacs
@freemo I was afraid you'd say that. I was hoping you'd say, "no, I used some proprietary software" and I wouldn't feel pressure to improve my LaTeX resumes (which haven't been updated in years)
@freemo That is a gorgeous formatting. Did you write it in LateX?
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The thing about ghosts in the machine is that sometimes they just fix themselves as suddenly as they broke. #GhostsInTheMachine
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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
@scottjenson Isn't it wonderful that thinking about who runs your instance is even possible with Mastodon? It's always a sad revelation wit Twitter, Facebook; and unknowable/irrelevant with Instagram, Pinterest, Tik Tok, etc
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"Elon Musk wants every Twitter employee sending weekly updates about their work via email now"
Elmo's escalating the level of crazy. Or there must be very few people left at Twitter if the CEO can afford to waste time on such trivial and meaningless bullshit.
OTOH, this would be a great use-case for malicious compliance ✌️
@GenghisKen @daviwil You lost me there about tags. Non sequitur?
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It's past 1994, Spotify. Who has no "history" view, to find that 1 of 3 *not most recent* podcast episodes I listened to, which I want to share from this morning?
RT @BTowersCoding
The way Mastodon is working out so well for me is causing me to reflect on why Twitter never really did.
It was likely my own fault, because of how I reacted to needing to build a name for myself on a platform based on so heavily on clout.
@daviwil @GenghisKen I've never had a problem with the web interfaces, even on my phone, though. Their only weakness is that they aren't emacs :)
@GenghisKen @daviwil I have heard good things about Tusky. I will have to check it out!
I always remember to check my agenda. But I have a cheat "catch all" perpetual task that I spend hours on when I'm really reading articles or doom scrolling...
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
