(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

Interesting read! Thanks. I am partial to #clojure and the lisps, which he doesn't mention -- lisps might fall behind his call for "modern" languages (because of their age, though this is actually a bad indicator for them), and Clojure definitely disagrees with him about types, but strong agreement on immutability and functional thinking.

When searching for #guix I did not expect my top results to be Microsoft... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/rtos/guix/about-guix

Learning: Shadow DOM https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_shadow_DOM

#qoto you have been struggling lately -- downtime and intermittency. @freemo anything you can divulge about what the challenges have been?

Debugging missing information in this #Clojure graphql-using system I wrote a couple years ago. Trouble is, I don't remember how I made it, and haven't touched graphql since then. I guess I'll take credit that it has worked reliably til now.

Call me a dissident child, but I don't like the fact that my organization has recently doubled and tripled corporate alliances with people like Adobe, Slack, Github, and Microsoft, along with DNS, VPN, and other big contracts. They would be fine in isolation, but the fact that they all seem to be coming along in the same two-year span screams irresponsibility and lack of due-diligence, possibly hoping that money-based decisions (alternately throwing money and "saving money") will make the world a better place, without apparently taking any tech consultation about it.

My realization is the past year is that unbounded size is bad, whether orgs, code bases, government, anything. Define your boundaries. Choose your limits
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RT @tom_geraghty
It strikes me that, with a few exceptions, the larger an organisation is, the more "work" it takes simply to work there.

The overhead of communication, training, bureaucracy, and constant re-orgs means that less and less individual time is spent delivering valu…
https://twitter.com/tom_geraghty/status/1517055405280698368

Easy troll -- "HTML is 4-letters!"
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RT @scottmcnealy
I know this one.
https://twitter.com/scottmcnealy/status/1516983361750794240

Code is a liability, though I love it. The poetry of code is in its scarcity.
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RT @searls
Spent time this week validating it was safe to delete a bunch of reporting code that (1) worked, (2) was correct, (3) I spent a lot of time creating, and (4) I was personally proud of. Nobody was really using them.

Why delete them? Because code is a liability and not an asset.
https://twitter.com/searls/status/1516806149940686856

A big "amen"
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RT @AliciaRaeburn
A remote work benefit I love the most is the lazy morning. I don’t set an alarm. I don’t fight with crowds or traffic.

I walk my dog and roll into the day. Why in the world would this be seen as negative?

Like, am I lazy or do you just hate yourself?
https://twitter.com/AliciaRaeburn/status/1516771481895776261