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gvwilson, 15 hours ago to music

Buffalo Nichols: "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJj6nu1guY #music

davidthewid, 19 hours ago to random

just figured out our article to CACM was accepted 2 weeks ago from @clegoues … I should check my email more often

anyway if you want to know what a bug is, our officially peer reviewed answer is forthcoming

sue, 21 hours ago to random

Being Glaswegian and working for US tech companies means being accidentally perceived as no nonsense, straight talking and all that when you quite literally had the politeness dialed up to the max 🤣

gvwilson, 1 day ago to random

Re-re-reading https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99

gvwilson, 2 days ago to random

There may not be such a thing as a perfect album, but I believe k.d. lang's "Hymns of the 49th Parallel" comes close.

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

Tan et al 2024: "How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01803 #nwit

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

It's finally up on arxiv.org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01546

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

OH: "Ohmygod Netflix has the Barbie Transformers Lego Star Wars movie!!" A moment later: "Oh. But Ryan Gosling isn't in it. Never mind."

gvwilson, 4 days ago to music

Blindnote: "Siretsi yars taran" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwnsbBWNP5A #music

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

Wish I coulda been there: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/05/the-pogues-shane-macgowan-red-roses-for-me-review-hackney-empire-london

gvwilson, 5 days ago to random

Any sufficiently advanced thinking is indistinguishable from humility.

gvwilson, 6 days ago to music

Lou Reed: "Perfect Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo #music

gvwilson, 7 days ago to random

OH: "And this is Bob, my tragic back story."

gvwilson, 9 days ago to random

Somebody just explained VS Code to me as "Microsoft engineers trying to build the operating system they wish they had in the first place without the business side realizing it" and it makes a lot of sense.

gvwilson, 9 days ago to random

"Blending computer science with sound software engineering practices (with citations!) is difficult enough on its own, but this book guides the reader through practical design patterns that they can put into practice. The addition of historic anecdotes gives readers extra context for what they've learned and brings theory back to practice." - @juliaferraioli on https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/

gvwilson, 9 days ago to random

Watching "Avatar: The Last Airbender" for the fourth (or fifth) time with my daughter, and damn, the writing is so good.

mhoye, 10 days ago to random

somebody just showed me a development strategy calling itself "waterfall agile", which they shortened to "wagile", if you were holding out hope that anyone in this field has any idea what they're doing

gvwilson, 11 days ago to random

There are things science just can't explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IzS2oBBN0

gvwilson, 11 days ago to random

"The Spear Cuts Through Water" by Simon Jimenez is outstanding in every way: inventive story telling, beautiful prose, multi-layered characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spear_Cuts_Through_Water ☆☆☆☆

gvwilson, 12 days ago to music

Police Deranged for Orchestra: "King of Pain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjrzjtuEmM #music

gvwilson, 12 days ago to music

Elise LeGrow: "Ain't No Sunshine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMDwJkvZaw #music

gvwilson, 12 days ago to music

Nouvelle Vague: "In a Manner of Speaking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhLFb34nz4 #music

gvwilson, 5 months ago to random

A setuptools/dynamic versioning/pyproject.toml question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77621013/setuptools-not-getting-dynamic-version-when-using-pyproject-toml