(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

Woah - German government has got its own Mastodon instance and most of the ministries and many agencies already have accounts.
Verification problem at least partially solved - just need to check the domain is right!
I've also seen newspapers like theatlantic.com set up instances themselves. Looks like verification will be worked out sooner or later.
https://social.bund.de/explore

@SOB2 Hey, sorry if the reading of my comic strip is "superiority". That wasn't my intent. 😔
In fact, this morning, my TL on Tw was full of threads crypto/nfts/AI/web3 influencer against "mastodon complexity". An irony in regards of their topic.
So, that's why I sketched this strip, mostly about people not doing the effort or low effort and then using a pretext of "bad UX" , "Complexity" or anything else to justify their final behavior: keep Twitter and trying to influence other to do so too.

"The jig is up. I guess it's time to learn a real skill."

submitted by attempt_number_3
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/yqiafi/the_jig_is_up_i_guess_its_time_to_learn_a_real/

Hello fellow Emacsen!

Have you taken the Emacs 2022 survey yet? If not, please take ~10 minutes of your time to fill it out! https://emacssurvey.org/ #emacs

#clojure tooling gets a lot of leverage out of @graalvm native-image nowadays:

https://github.com/babashka/babashka - scripting, fast startup
https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo - linting, static analysis
https://github.com/borkdude/jet - jq for clojure (EDN, Transit, JSON)

#graalvm @alina_yurenko

Since almost all Mastodon #instances that I used to recommend to friends (like chaos.social) have closed or limited registration amid the current user influx, I've decided to once again start operating a general-purpose one at https://ohai.social. I intend to keep it running long-term and it follows the Server Covenant outlined at https://joinmastodon.org/covenant. Feel free to invite friends there!

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

#lisp #programming

Meta is in fire. They just sacked 11,000 staff. That's 1/8 of their workforce.

What's more, Zuckerberg insists on investing further in the metaverse—he's fiddling while Rome burns. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/09/mark-zuckerberg-meta-to-sack-11000-workers-after-revenue-collapse-facebook-instagram

Asking the wider fediverse: is there a reliable 3rd party scheduler that allows you to include images with alt text?

(perhaps @feditips knows?)

Was thinking the #TwitterMigration reminds me of the OPPOSITE of the GooglePlus launch.

Then you had a very robust, polished Silo of a Facebook Clone site. Pretty full featured and shipped like Googlers ship all their products...but a Ghost Town.

Here you get something no one owns, not even one platform like #Mastadon owns. And it is already well beyond in some ways what Twitter offers, in other ways different and rougher...but so ALIVE with people, inventing new ways to extend and use.

Yesterday instead of writing a script in bash I gave Babashka (a Clojure interpreter) a try. I would say I’m more proficient with Bash than with Clojure at this point, but I feel the resulting code is actually better with Babashka: having access to a REPL is really a game changer for writing cleaner and more modular code. A very positive experience overall, thank you @borkdude!

https://github.com/babashka/babashka