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apologies to all you programmers who followed me thinking i was going to post about programming

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Who was it that first had the idea to introduce literal backticks in rendered Markdown-style content?

I don't want to hurt them. I just want to have a tense discussion about it

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@janl next we'll get underscores around italics and headlines with leading octothorpes

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I’m gonna stop you right there

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Two ways of knowing that you are logged out of YouTube:

  1. observe the “Sign In” button at the upper right; or
  2. observe that the first video suggestion on the homepage is a discussion between Piers Morgan and Andrew Tate
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New editor deep-dive just dropped: using Tree-sitter for indentation hinting and code folding.

This series honestly describes what I’ve been doing for most of 2023. Not because a throng of Pulsar users demanded it, but because it was satisfying to build this whole new system inside of a codebase I was already pretty familiar with.

https://pulsar-edit.dev/blog/20231031-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-4.html

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For instance: how does the editor know when to indent and when to dedent in this screencast? If you said “voodoo,” you’re wrong! It’s Tree-sitter!

demonstration of a code editor automatically indenting and un-indenting as a user types code

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If you care about text editors, you might find this series interesting. It’s a summary of most of what I’ve been doing this year — designing a system largely from scratch and shipping it within an open-source text editor.

It’s also what I’d like to be doing for a tech company in exchange for money, so please reach out if you think that’d be useful to have around your workplace.

https://pulsar-edit.dev/blog/20231013-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-3.html

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Here are the other posts in the series for some background: https://pulsar-edit.dev/tag/tree-sitter/

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We are supposed to post statuses on this thing, so here is my status

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Interspecies cultural exchange

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The house of the… future

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Found poetry at Spaceship Earth

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Lots of love for in my timeline. I too used it extensively since it came out up until @panic released Nova.

It bridges being a nimble text editor while scaling to “IDE” to quell any VS Code FOMO.

I even wrote the first version and currently maintain the Erlang extension.

I will never forget TextMate, though <3

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@janl Stuck with it until 2017, then decided Atom had enough of the TextMate ethos within it that I could make it work. Now it's 2023 and I contribute to @pulsaredit (Atom fork) because VSCode just doesn't understand what made its predecessors great editors

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I’ll admit I’m not a business genius, but I feel like one thing I would do is make it so that assets aren’t seen as financial liabilities just because they don’t exhibit an unsustainable pace of long-term growth

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GALLANT: A tool like prettier helps us to realize our stylistic preferences are completely arbitrary; we shouldn't be so hung up about them

GOOFUS: If I invent prettier, I get to standardize my stylistic preferences and impose them on everyone else

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Not sure how, but finally made it through season two of 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖 — I am equal parts amazed and happy that this show exists.

Black haired girl says well done then then slurps on a straw.

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@janl she's good in The Bletchley Circle, too

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College sports are already 1000% ridiculous, but think about this: when the University of Washington’s cross-country team has to fly coach to go to a mid-week meet at Rutgers in a few years, it’ll be because their football team wanted to lose in front of a larger television audience

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I have posted this on both Mastodon and Bluesky in the hopes of learning which of its audiences is more receptive to my twice-a-year musings on college sports — the most salient of all possible topics in the year 2023. I will let you know how it goes

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If you haven’t played IMMORTALITY yet, please play it before watching this documentary. If you have played IMMORTALITY, please watch this documentary.

I can’t remember another game that expressed its themes so resoundingly and elegantly and with so much craft and attention to detail. And there were angles I hadn’t thought of, small details that I hadn’t noticed, until I watched this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ov00DFQ5gg

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(Incredibly mild thematic spoilers follow.)

One of the morals of , I think, is that making art shouldn’t consume anyone. It shouldn’t come at anyone’s expense. The genesis of IMMORTALITY was Sam Barlow reflecting on various cinematic ingénues of the past — Olivia Hussey, Jean Seberg, Jane Fonda — and (seemingly) wishing that they all had a protector inside of them, something that could give them a sort of worldliness that would make their careers feel less predatory.

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Knowing more about the behind-the-scenes work only deepens the resonance of the themes.

The clips you see from these movies are sometimes the rehearsal scenes and sometimes the actual scenes as filmed. One scene depicts a rehearsal in 1968 for a movie scene in which a character gets raped. After watching this documentary, I now appreciate that it was likely a conscious choice to depict that scene in rehearsal, to soften it a bit for the audience and for the actual actors filming it.

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But the real-life planning of the filming of that rehearsal scene — like all other sexual scenes in this game — involved an intimacy coordinator, because that’s what you do when you film things in the 2020s. In order to depict an in-universe rehearsal scene in 1968 that, of course, didn’t have an intimacy coordinator, because that wasn’t a thing yet.

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I think the making of IMMORTALITY was partly a way for Sam Barlow to work through the emotional complexity of loving art even when the making of that art was toxic and abusive. And the documentary shows the extent to which the actors were respected and cared for even as they were filming scenes with nudity and emotional vulnerability.

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Art doesn’t demand that you reassess it every time you learn more about its creation. I don’t think that Crimes and Misdemeanors is no longer watchable just because of what we now know of Woody Allen. But in the future, I want to reward auteurs that can make good art without exploiting people, and I love how the making of IMMORTALITY serves as proof that that’s possible.

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You can implement someone’s brilliant creative vision without letting yourself be abused. You don’t have to excuse David O. Russell’s tirades because you think that it’s just the price that must be paid to make a good film.

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Anyway, IMMORTALITY won at least one of nearly every video game award that’s out there, and it should’ve won even more. It’s on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, and you should be able to play it for free if you have a Netflix subscription.

http://halfmermaid.co/
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/121442

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