(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

Upgraded to check; mute system on-off. Somehow my VLC had been set to mute (but nothing else in the system). Weird.

til the most used web engine is not Webkit or Gecko -- it's Blink. Funny that I have been hearing about the others for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

#Gitlab can be self-hosted. This gets around things like user limits, which are a current blocker. But should we? Pro, cons, alternatives? Dear Internet, please advise

I'm looking for recent books or up-to-date text on #FunctionalProgramming with PHP. #PHP is changing rapidly and all the books I see are nearly a decade old. Any good recommendations? #FP

I had a bash file that was suddenly failing. After TOO LONG debugging, I found that one of the included functions had been broken so it ended with `fi}` instead of `fi\n}` so a linebreak had been removed. As a result the cron job that depended on that script was failing. #BeautifulBash

ah, that's the stuff. Because Gnu `date` can create Julian dates but then cannot read them. #babashka #EayNumber #JulianDates #Clojure

#Mastodon now has "edit post"? Since when?

I can, for the moment, rest in peace (at least, on the issue of getting my portable docked triple-monitor setup stable with #exwm). https://orys.us/ww

Todo: write a #Clojure #Babashka script to convert from a given JDN to verbose date. So `babashka-date 2024030` => `Tue 2024.01.30`. Apparently GNU bash `date` can OUTPUT formats that it cannot intake.

#epub. A good thing: officially standardized by the W3C https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck . However, some auto-generated epub seems to be rubbish; 3 out of 4 of my epub readers failed to parse the epub, even after editing missing fields per https://www.edrlab.org/open-standards/anatomy-of-an-epub-3-file/ . I'm not sure how the 4th one managed it, but it's pretty ugly. Guess I'm sticking with #pdf on this one.

My #ClojureScript #ShadowCLJS is not hotloading, although its codebase is just a copy of another that worked beatifully, and that a copy of another that never had troubles, either. I've looked over every difference I can find and see nothing. The WATCHER is working fine; when I make a code change, I see a spinner. But updates don't actually appear. React Devtools also show that nothing is connected. But manual hitting "refresh" works, though it feels like I'm back in the stone ages...

I am a big fan of extending old, good technologies rather than recreating the wheel. #Email is one of these; both #DeltaChat and @zulip #zulip do this, in very different and equally inspiring ways.

As far as I can tell, the Achilles Heel of email is that it is TOO easy, and that has given rise to its antithesis, #spam.

My #Firefox has crashed three times today, without warning -- I just look up and its gone. It's never done that to me before! The only new thing I can think of is that I've added Discord to its work load...

I just love it when my browser WORKS. When the website doesn't break my "open in new tab" or my "back" or my "history." And I love when it's a surprize. When I click something that I was sure was going to break stuff, and it worked without breaking! No more stupid JS-only on-click handling with a useless link, etc. #webdev #htmlFirst

#humor #python and #CLang performance are largely synonymous to outsiders thanks to wrappers, but in a conversation just between the two of them, speed and errors may be characteristic. I like this double-jab

- Bad: silent errors without any log of what's going on.
- Evil: email sending & retrieving silently failing and only a third perspective even tells you that you are blind and dumb for the past 30 hours.