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Check out this Meetup: Clojure Web Development Evolved (by Dmitri Sotnikov & Nik Peric) https://www.meetup.com/London-Clojurians/events/283500451 #Meetup via @Meetup

I would like to use git to back-up, vc, and sync everything crucial on my text-based system, but some content, most notably my passwords file, are gpg encypted. This breaks git because reviewing changes essentially produces comparisons of gibberish. Does anyone know a solution for syncing/VC of encrypted data, which won't be only passwords?

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2005/microsoft-gets-tdd-completely-wrong Nice old article on Microsoft getting TDD wrong in ways that many others have mistaken, too. Essentially, they suggested "waterfall-style TDD" which is a contradiction of terms. #TDD is meant to be fast and iterative. It is an absolute joy in #Clojure Cider (and presumably other toolings and languages), where you re-run the failing test with every re-evaluation, watching for that joyful green light to say that now you've passed. https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2005/microsoft-gets-tdd-completely-wrong

Check out this Meetup: The Secret Art of Storytelling in Programming (by Yehonathan Sharvit) https://www.meetup.com/London-Clojurians/events/285388305 #Meetup via @Meetup

Why does #Git have a detached head state? This seems like nothing but a "gotcha" to make you frantically search for lost code when you thought you were working on someone else's branch.

EXWM on Linux. I sold Linux stability in exchange for power, and made myself vulnerable to things like this.

Ugh. It's Friday. I simultaneously have the lack of wisdom so entertained a vain hope that upgrading that crucial thing won't destroy my system, and lack of energy to debug why my system wouldn't start. Now I type knowing that if I reboot right now, my system won't come up.

Some headway: here we are with an emacs-style of implementation, using #clojure for the hiccup and emacs as a battering ram for repetitive work.

Ah! I just discovered #emacs OOTBox forward-paragraph for going to the next blank line in code files, where I have big space-divided data structures

Does anyone else have muddled together in their mind Golang, Rust, and Dart, as three almost cult-favorite languages of similar popularity and unclear differentiation? Here's what I found; someone fill me in or prove me wrong, please!

Golang is easy, Rust is hard, Dart is made for web. Dart and Go were both Google products, though Dart is open now. Go and Rust hit heavy on the low-level performance thing. Rust has the most compelling Free Software story of the three, if tech ethics matter to you.

This article is wrong in almost every detail characterizing "web apps". At least some of the generic advice, like dealing with screen size and taking different devices in to account, is somewhat correct.