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chris__martin, 8 months ago to random

I started software work at 19 making a mcdonalds-level hourly at the commercial sidecar to my university who accepted it as part of their mission to take on a lot of interns from the school. I came in with a decent programming background for that day and age. I think it was a very appropriate position.

louis, 8 months ago to golang

Go, a modern language, invented in 2009 by Google:

=> runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference (let's crash)

Common Lisp, since 1984 by many:

=> NIL (I'm fine)

#golang #commonlisp

deech, 8 months ago to random

Changed my LAN subnet mask and now Linux can't find the shared printer and I'm down this CUPS rabbithole.

Saigon, I'm still in Saigon.

zachmccoy, 8 months ago to random

The things I feel like I need to read and understand is growing at a much higher rate than I can get through it.

brian, 8 months ago to mastodon

Another 4 digit post backlog on my Home timeline. #Mastodon has absolutely become an #NFL community!

ross, 8 months ago to Indiana

The sun sets 99 seconds earlier than yesterday in Indianapolis. The rate of loss will decline until November 5, when we will lose 3,665 seconds.

#Equinox #DaylightSavingTime #Indianapolis

alexelcu, 8 months ago to mastodon

Pro-tip for people self-hosting their own #Mastodon instances…

On small servers, it can get lonely. For instance, following a tag (like #scala) will yield no results from people you don't already follow.

The solution is to subscribe to a “relay” (Settings > Administration > Relays), but an unfiltered stream brings a lot of junk, also increasing hosting costs.

For me, the better solution is this follow-only relay that can be filtered by tag or instance:

https://relay.fedi.buzz/

#Mastoadmin

tpolecat, 8 months ago to random

Ok this seemed like too much of a coincidence, so I looked it up and yep, Bill Joy was using an ADM-3A when he wrote vi. So that's why.

ross, 8 months ago to random

I made grand plans on the dog walk how to retake control of my GitHub notifications, but the API doesn't support marking "Done". I can query the nuisance alerts, but not do anything about them. On to browser sniffing.

jonoabroad, 8 months ago to random

Jazzmatazz is still an excellent album.

#NotOld

chris__martin, 8 months ago to random

Truth be told I don't actually see that expecting everybody to have Nix installed is any less reasonable than expecting Docker.

ross, 8 months ago to programming

Scala Steward pins to keep Akka, Akka-HTTP, and Alpakka modules from updating to versions under the Business Source License.

http://rossabaker.com/snips/akka-pins/

#Scala #Akka

dhinojosa, 9 months ago to music

I'm considering diving into some music artists I typically haven't listened to or know very little about, even the bands where I only know the hits. I'll go in chronological order, too. I have a music service which makes it possible to do it. The artists:

> Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
> James Brown
> Phish
> Genesis
> Parliament
> Black Sabbath (I am a big fan but only know the big hits)

Are there any other bands worth my time to listen to the entire discography?

#music

nixos_org, 9 months ago to random

Anduril develops advanced technology to transform US & allied military capabilities, building pioneering solutions for tomorrow's software-defined conflicts. Thank you for your support as a Gold Partner of NixCon, Anduril! https://2023.nixcon.org

ross, 9 months ago to random

When our alma mater plays a football game against the rival we haven't beaten since 1987, we have the entire day to cook away our inevitable sadness. Low and slow.

#iufb #bbq

Plate full of shredded beef brisket point and pulled pork
Plate of thin smoked sausages and bowl of diced rosemary potatoes

ross, 9 months ago to emacs

Creative Commons is great for text. It's not great for code. Literate programming is both.

CC-BY-SA-4.0 is one-way compatible with GPL-3.0. License a whole doc as CC-BY-SA-4.0, and both are neatly covered. But if you include non-trivial GPL-3.0 code into your literate program (hello, Emacs!), the doc needs two licenses or one awkward one. And so many Emacs configs are GPL, it's hard to avoid.

#CreativeCommons #GPL #LiterateProgramming #Emacs

ross, 9 months ago to emacs

I've added a custom :code-license header to Org mode source blocks [1], heritable across subtrees. This lets me share trivial config under CC0, while declaring and complying with stronger licenses elsewhere. Technique based on @sachac's custom :summary header [2].

[1] https://rossabaker.com/configs/emacs/#ox-hugo

[2] https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/01/adding-a-custom-header-argument-to-org-mode-source-blocks-and-using-that-argument-during-export/

#Emacs #Hugo #OrgMode #Indieweb

ross, 9 months ago to android

• Longtime Android user. I avoid smart speakers, but sometimes use a Google one. Kids have FamilyLink.

• In last two years, both Samsung and Google denied in-warranty claim on a flagship.

• Only Apple device in home is work MacBook. I run Linux. Watch is a Garmin and earbuds are Jabra. I am unlikely to ever be all-in Apple.

• I don't tweak as much as I used to, but I enjoy mobile Firefox.

• Security matters.

• I am frugal, but could splurge.

#Android #iOS #AskFedi

ross, 9 months ago to random

Writing Scala to render Markdown embedded in Bash embedded in YAML, as one does.

jonoabroad, 9 months ago to random

I have traded and unruly amount of tabs for an unruly number of tab groups in Firefox.

Whilst, I don't use emacs, I feel I am quite close to building some kind of browser extension to let me create multiple nested tab groups

ross, 9 months ago to orgmode

orggy (adj., /'ɔɹgi/): of or pertaining to Org Mode.

#OrgMode

jonoabroad, 9 months ago to random

You know, maybe XML with a XSD wasn't so bad?

Like, yeah most of the time they were as useful as the documentation on getters and setters, but you know, it's better than random fucking json files with a version attribute and nothing else.

aye, computers, humanity, all mistakes.