My friend won 2nd place in the pc demo competition at Evoke in Kรถln this weekend, with his ascii-inspired demo Glyphnosis. Really happy for him! ๐ฅ
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creator of textlogreplied to@jojoprofilefollowBelieve powerful technology and ease of use can be combined. 46elks founder, an SMS and telephony API for Europe based in Sweden, 15 years in the running.:
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creator of textlogreplied to@jojoprofilefollowBelieve powerful technology and ease of use can be combined. 46elks founder, an SMS and telephony API for Europe based in Sweden, 15 years in the running.:woo that was great, happy for him! I had an Amiga too :D remember all that era so this demo resonated a lot
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Thatโs awesome. Congrats to your friend.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerswrote:Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:Thatโs a great set (and then no more!)
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@ryansepassiprofilefollow:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@ryansepassiprofilefollow:I think so. It could even be made a setting, defaulting it to off. I think it would be useful, especially is self-hosted for a tech community.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:Instead of what to add I'm always asking myself what can be avoided or what can I take out. Adding features is easy. Minimalism is hard.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas๐คธprofilefollow
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creator of textlog:I agree that minimalism is hard. Thatโs why the subset was explicitly recommended small. Yet, I believe it is extremely useful to have.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerscontinued:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyerscontinued:Cool! Letโs test it with a link to Google.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:I've tested MD and honestly I don't like it. Bold/italics add unnecessary noise/clutter and the font is already monospace, suited for code, so inline code & code fences are not needed. If 3rd party clients want to implement them it's fine but I'm sensitive to visual noise.
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creator of textlog:I agree with this. The core you're building is around a deliberate minimalist philosophy. I was happy to build an opinionated client for my own use-case, but it should imo stay on the fringes for those seeking it.
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Friday Aperitivo: martini, a magazine, and a dog by my side
Excited about these news! I am #flyingnotesfollow Heraklion to BerlinHeraklion Airport N. Kazantzakis โ Berlin Brandenburg AirportHeraklion Airport N. Kazantzakis โ Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Friday, going to stay for a while to work on textlog among other things. Happy because I was getting a bit depressed lately living in the mountains in Crete.
Crazy what happened earlier; one the cats here โthe one Iโm closest withโ started unexpectedly meowing outside wanting to get in, I let it in and it started licking me like never before, as if she sensed Iโm leaving in a couple of days, canโt explain it otherwise.
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code quality is about coupling.
coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes.
code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning.
two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept.
if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing.
to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.
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I think you're right but executing on that idea requires a lot of care. It's similar to how functional programmers pathologically fear state; sometimes coupling/state are a necessary evil in order to keep the theory simple.
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Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py
If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.com:
true! i might have been wiser to say: code quality is about managing coupling across the whole system. extracting a coupling sometimes requires you to introduce complexity beyond that which the extraction reduces.
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Just get rid of it. Life is way better without phones. I haven't had a phone for five years.
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If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.com:
I am curious how does that work for you. You should write a post about it and share.
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Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py
If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.com:
how do you do things like online identification/tickets for services/events? From my experience in germany a lot of these are online only. Same with like the vaccination certificate back in covid times
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I remain #AInotesfollow ambiguous. This morning I used pi+gpt5.6 to create a #vimnotesfollow color scheme based on evergarden.moe. It works, and I havenโt checked how well it stay true to the style used in vim-bundled schemas. Before I wouldnโt have done this, and now I can. But I donโt know if it is good. github.com/โฆ/evergarden.vim #codingnotesfollow #githubnotesfollow
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Itโs easy, just add your own timestamp to posts 2:35โฏam
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So we can't use em dash anymore โ lest we anger the mob. Truth be told though, English teachers have always discouraged em dash overuse because it is a subtle art and very easy to get wrong.
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The funny thing is that in the UK, we don't really use the em dash anyway. We use the hyphen (I guess en dash?) with a space each side. So the em dash has always looked a bit odd to us... ๐
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There are dashes (-), as well as en dashes (โ), and there are em dashes (โ), not to miss the mighty center dot (โข) that looks like a perky boob when surrounded by brackets haha
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Just get and read Chicago Manual of Style, or Oxford Style Manual if you so prefer, and youโre all set to use the various dashโes (and many other things).
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creator of textlog:can't believe It don't let me jump up and down
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creator of textlog:Woow this is really cool!!
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Not that I think we're close to a canonical definition (as if we'll ever all agree on one) but my team has defacto adopted the definition of code that the developer responsible for it doesn't understand, approve of and essentially has now honestly reviewed. Basically anything which leads to cognitive debt.
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hellodavid.devDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.replied to@zenprofilefollowfather, cyclist, #haskellnotesfollow, #emacsnotesfollow:
I agree, I don't think that there will ever be one canonical definition, but I like this definition as well, as it places the onus on the actual person creating the slop. Thank you for sharing!
i think id love to do something along the lines of (physical) product design
im currently a software engineer. ive been into keyboards for a while and designed a good number. few things are as satisfying as taking an idea from something on paper or in my head to a shiny, pretty thing to play with
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@e_e๐งprofilefollow:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyersreplied to@e_e๐งprofilefollow:Electrician. This is not a farfetched idea, by the way. Tumultuous times; each day could be my last workday.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:You are not the only one. x.com/benjamin_horne/status/2093749991680442462X (formerly Twitter)Ben Horne ๐บ๐ธ (@benjamin_horne) on XMy cousin is 29 years old and no longer sees a long term future in SWE, so he recently made a hard switch to the electrician path. He didn't even get laid off, he actually *quit* his six figure SWE job to do this... His reasoning is that by having the balls to be decisive and pull the trigger on โฆ [warn: that site may not be what you want to be on]
@miqโprofilefollowEternal disciple of impostor syndrome โ Perth, WA.replied to@e_e๐งprofilefollow:
Ah, a recurring question that undesirably keeps me awake and staring at my bedroom ceiling these past couple of years due to all this AI apocalypse rhetoric.
Wish I had a firm answer. Preferably, not something frontline customer-facing, and where I can still exercise agency.
