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@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to followreplied to@geverenter to follow:top
Do have ideas as to why it's BASIC that seems to work for them at this stage?
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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. #educationenter to follow #programmingenter to follow
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@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to followcontinued:top
NB: this isn't vagueposting about textlog.cctextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts. I'm just in a bad mood and whine about everything at 3am.
@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to followwrote:
I have been a mod and even admin of several small online spaces, and I don't even see the appeal of going power-hungry and unjust when in those positions. I can theorize about it, but it remains wildly unintuitive. Avoiding being a pain isn't the hardest thing ever either: rely on the rules as written, hedge your judgements, rely on facts rather than vibes, consider how things would appear if you were wrong.
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@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to followreplied to@gruntI am just a grain of sand on your beach.enter to follow:top
Thanks, could be interesting to look into. I know they're optional but I'm totally against their linting's rules.
@gruntI am just a grain of sand on your beach.enter to followreplied to@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to follow:
Apparently there is a project to add syntax highlight to English proseGitHubGitHub - flyingrobots/colorful-language: Make English prose light up like code: local, deterministic part-of-speech highlighting and linting via a Rust CLI and LSP.Make English prose light up like code: local, deterministic part-of-speech highlighting and linting via a Rust CLI and LSP. - flyingrobots/colorful-language. Per README, Neovim is supported. Now your prose, too, can look like a box of crayons.
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@petitaProfessional skibidist, progenitor of thousands of dandruff, writer of shitposts on XMPP. Don't hire me.enter to followreplied to@stagascreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogenter to follow:top
It's actually what convinced me to try! I questioned the timestamp decision at first but it's also an interesting idea.
@stagascreative technologistGitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogenter to followwrote:
Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid.
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