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ross, 3 months ago to emacs

The Emacs death discourse overlooks Lindy's Law: the remaining life expectancy of a technology is proportional to its age. It confuses popularity with persistence.

#Emacs

ross, 3 months ago to random

> Your software's major version should never exceed the first and most important number in computing: zero.

https://0ver.org/

jonoabroad, 3 months ago to random

Does the guardian website die in the arse for anyone else running FF on Android?

ross, 3 months ago to random

After a two-year snow drought, cross-country skiing has resumed, in the traditional Blackhawks Starter jacket that Santa Claus brought me, circa 1993.

ross, 3 months ago to random

A deeper dive than anybody wanted into Semantic Versioning, how its ordering conflicts with standard practice, and how to unify spec and practice. Includes examples for SBT (Coursier and Ivy) and Maven.

https://rossabaker.com/blog/version-number-ordering/

#SemVer #SBT #Maven

jonoabroad, 3 months ago to random

You say people don't need an education in computer science to work in programming as it's all just monkey work.

I counter with: This fucking API

ross, 4 months ago to NixOS

The lazy NixOS admin's incantation to patch Mastodon before it hits your usual nixpkgs:

https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/aefa7e4ee7234eafb8842792188e286a

#NixOS #MastoAdmin

ross, 4 months ago to random

Thinking about types of posts on my web site and how to organize and present more clearly. I perceive a dichotomy between moments in time (e.g., blog posts) and living documents (e.g., literate configs) that's more meaningful than the common ones. Streams vs. gardens, or something?

https://indieweb.org/posts#Types_of_Posts

#IndieWeb

dhinojosa, 4 months ago to random

I was this year's old when I learned that Mick Fleetwood has an extra set of dangling balls on the album cover #Rumours

#FleetwoodMac

jonoabroad, 4 months ago to random

People thought they canned it
Rap is not by bandits

Yes, I'm listening to Digable Planets.

Yes, my musical tastes are up to date and relevant, fuck you.

ross, 4 months ago to random

I'm not sure whether troubleshooting a gas furnace in -18°C weather or finally figuring out how to convince Discord I'm not a fraudster was the more miserable part of my weekend, but two cookies for me!

tpolecat, 4 months ago to random

Just noticed that Safari indicates which tab(s) are making noise. Nice feature. Maybe all browsers do this now, I don't get out much.

ross, 4 months ago to random

Each Slack notification is one notification closer to retirement.

ross, 4 months ago to random

I can't remove the stress of job hunting when employment is so central to our identity and basic needs. But if an interviewee feels worse at the end than the beginning, then I have abjectly failed as an interviewer. It's a duplex conversation, not a hazing ritual.

ross, 4 months ago to random

Sourcehut and Codeberg are two of the most inspirational projects out there. May they each emerge from this ordeal stronger.

jonoabroad, 4 months ago to random

@ross getting really fucking close to just giving you the keys to my server.

Was getting forgejo set up and got stuck on something, struggled with the answer and thought WWRD? and the answer was in the good blog.

• note SERVICE is not SERVER

thank you for your blog

ross, 4 months ago to random

As I try to get two teenagers off to school through the latest sunrises of the year, I'm contemplating tactical nukes.

ross, 5 months ago to foss

Lots of posts lamenting how much knowledge will vanish as Discord enshittifies. True, but it's already lost to searchers, the privacy conscious, and the people it locks out for no damn reason at all. (Tag yourself, I'm all three.) It's already smothering your community. Open source belongs on the open web.

#FOSS #Discord

ross, 5 months ago to Indiana

This is why I mostly keep to the North Side.

#Indianapolis

ross, 5 months ago to random

Allegedly there's another side to this card, if you don't want more picanha. I've never seen it.

#Gluttony