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KDE Connect is good software.

That is all.

deech, to random
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I've moved to Raleigh,NC. I would love to connect/hangout/talk tech. If you're in the Triangle area hit me up!

deech, to random
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Lex Luthor implies the existence of a far greater super villain Parse Luthor.

deech, to random
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This whole comment exactly mirrors my experience working with Pharo for a couple of months for a talk.

Discoverability & debuggability beats type safety and paradigm by a mile every time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174981

deech, to random
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In broad strokes this pretty much matches my experience with Haskell and web services. Never again.

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

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Good news, an angel investor named Jia Tan with no questionable connections has agreed to sponsor Nix indefinitely!

deech, to random
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It's interesting that tech evaluation is dominated by ignorance (as opposed to narcissism) of small differences.

deech,
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Eg. there's almost no and maybe even negative value from a non academic user's perspective to grouping PLs into "families". Two "MLs" can be totally different experiences.

deech, to random
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guys who reach a certain age and roll their own everything and wrap it up in some tcl widget are looking less and less crazy as I approach said age

deech,
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my ideal dependency graph

deech, to random
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Another day another reason why the fundamental technical problem in this industry is that code is orders of magnitude easier to produce vs. understand.

deech, to emacs
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Incredible to me that I still get occasional pull requests for my Elisp implementation of Shen.

https://github.com/deech/shen-elisp/pulls

deech,
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IMO Shen deserves a spot on the PL timeline. It's not going to get one but oh well ...

deech, to random
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If I'm honest whether specializing in FP has been good or bad for my career or even made me a better programmer is a coin flip for me these days.

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What does psychology have to do with software work? Why should psychologists be invited in to contribute to what we know about technology teams?

I am, naturally, very biased 😎 , but because I would love nothing more than to have a future where I no longer feel like "the only psych at this tech conference," here are some topics you may not have thought were psych, but which would be helpful for software practitioners and where psychology is the place to look for the methods & expertise:

deech,
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@grimalkina I like the idea of addressing psych issues specifically found in tech. It maybe useful to start from burn out and work backwards? Idk just a thought.

deech, to random
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At some point everyone settles on their own take on simple software and lives there forever

deech, to random
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The sad part here isn't the bugs but that the V guy spouting absolute BS has gotten way more people critically evaluating his lang vs those who have more integrity with their claims. When I say the incentives in this business are garbage this is what I mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492680

deech,
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We all should be looking at tech adoption with an adversarial mindset.

People sometimes forget that in the Simple Made Easy talk Rich Hickey also said something like, "Be Kind. But Crucify".

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Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works is worth your time.

Why Infrastructure Is Not Profitable Or Sexy But Still Critical is a better title IMO.

If you're a maintainer do some neck stretches because you'll be nodding a lot.

deech, to random
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Whoa, apparently Skills Matter is gone and they took all their Haskell content with them. :(

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/194muc3/does_anyone_know_whats_going_on_with_skills/

deech, to random
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This is cringy af but I appreciate that he is up front about it.

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/discussions/10085

deech, to random
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Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Software dev: water is of type glass

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Consider the bicycle: more specifically, the De Rosa SK Pininfarina. I think it’s beautiful, but I wouldn’t call it art, because being beautiful isn’t its primary purpose. It was created to be useful; the fact that it can also be appreciated aesthetically is an intentional bonus.
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deech,
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@gvwilson It would be good to separate the concept of "elegance" from brevity or onscreen aesthetics.

Pipes are hard to get right and a nightmare to debug because they pass around unstructured byte streams.

OTOH Powershell's chaining is much more useful because it has some static shape information and great interop with C#.

But pipes are somehow more elegant.

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When your tests pass against an interface you mocked

deech, to random
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Prime ads are like 20 seconds 3x per episode and you can’t even skip after 4 seconds which makes it worse than YouTube and on par with Freevee. Which is free.

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