Earlier, our boss almost had to carry us out of the museum. We completely forgot about the closing time. Or as one of my colleagues commented: ‘This has simply become our second home!’ 1/2
2/2 Today, our Tower of #Babel was transmitting perfectly again, a colleague guided a Belgian-Dutch-French-German group and everyone understood everything and everyone splendidly.
@pluralistic And yes, after recently finishing RF Kuang's #Babel, I'm reminded of the East India Trading company instigating War with China so they could sell Opium in the Opium Wars! #SF reflecting real life!
If you think react is complicated now, go back to 2015 when you had to configure babel and webpack yourself, you had to do SSR and routing yourself, you had to decide between flow and typescript, you had to learn flux and immutable.js, and you had to choose 1 of 100 boilerplates
Wow. It looks like the Hugo awards are all sorts of pear-shaped this year. Babel wasn't even considered and the voting seems clearly jacked up across the board. I have suspicions about what happened, but I'm looking forward to someone smarter than me and with more information to explain things.
The most frustrating part of my current struggle to update #PrismJS support in #Firefish is that it would be literally 3 lines of code to fix it if only it were possible for me to add <script> tags to the file served. I'm adding code that should only render on client side (it's exclusively presentation) and points to a CDN so browser caching means it's very limited bandwidth.
But no. I'm stuck messing with weird configurations for #Vue, trying to figure out how the #NodeJS package manager pnpm works, identifying what #Webpack is eating, translating tutorials from EMCA5 to 6, and how to use #Babel to precompile the Prism library with the right settings.
Every technology in that stack allegedly is supposed to improve #productivity. They're all supposed to make my life easier by reducing complexity and streamlining effort. But they have turned a 3 line fix into hundreds spread across a dozen files.
Oh well, this is how modern software development works, isn't it?
About halfway through R.F. Kuang's "Babel" and I think I chose the best book to get back into my reading habits. The writing style is accessible, the setting and atmosphere are gripping, and the themes are relevant.
If the petulant billionaire starts charging over at the wreckage of the #Birdsite, I expect a few more people moving over here. Although, I suspect more of the Towel of #Babel and people fleeing to Facebook/Threads. The folks I see over there still posting are looking for popularity or wanting to be an influencer/celebrity, so I suspect they're going to head to Tiktok/Instagram/Threads.
"2,000 years from now, people will not understand the difference between "butt dial" and "booty call" and this is exactly why the Bible is so hard to understand." @deadsoulpoetry 2023 #Babel#Bible#Babble#ButtDIal#BootyCall
Had a real bizarre issue today learning to use literate programming for a shell script in #orgmode#babel. One command I was using was making it so any output following it would never get output to the results block. I did discover finally after very much head bashing, that if I used an async shared session that I could at least access a variable containing the output in the next code block. I wish I knew what was going on, but at least I am making progress!
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/ “The reason the #Babel story matters is not that it happened once but that it happens over and over: We Babelize and de-Babelize. The #internet is an engine of both processes. Eventually, brands will find purchase in #Mastodon’s rocky soil and grow engagement. .. Everything will centralize again, and it will seem eternal, as if the tower could never fall. For now, let’s enjoy the scattering. “