wrote up a proper long-form blog post about what #fennel is, how it works, and why it's so interesting to me: https://technomancy.us/186 if you like #lisp or #lua or smol compilers maybe you'll like it too?
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
Depression, important Show more
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Probably very late to the party, but I’ve been listening to Chvrches lately and am really enjoying it as programming background music. (It’s loud electronic pop with lyrics, so it might not work for everybody, but I can nod along and focus really well to it.)
Slice of Unix history Show more
unusually pleasant experience w/linux audio Show more
John Deere more like John DRM send toot
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Movie idea: two criminals in love keep breaking each other out of prison, but each time it happens the person who was free before ends up captured instead. Repeat this process for 90 minutes. Call it "Finishing Each Other's Sentences".
despite all my rage i am still just a Dog with a Blog
Sometimes I get curious about fringe statistics - anybody have a source for a decent estimate of what percentage of North America is paved?
with all this hubhub about git in the news, I'm glad folks are looking at gitlab as an option.
however, it might be a good time to remind folks of alternate systems that learn from some of the mistakes of git: #pijul (https://pijul.org/) and #fossil (https://fossil-scm.org) the latter which is created by the brilliant author of SQLite.
grpc is pronounced "gur-pic"; pass it on
My first program in Fennel. 😛
wtf is up with this design pattern on web apps where there are huge text fields for username and password on the home page and so you type in your username and password only to realize that the button below it says "Create an account!" and then you have to hunt for the tiny "ˢⁱᵍⁿ ⁱⁿ" button in the upper right-hand corner in order to actually sign in to your existing account?
I got asked if I was a bot on IRC today, the heck
Working on my game for the #lispgamejam this weekend - really excited to be writing a game again.
I think more people in our society need to read this comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/190
More technology, surveillance, science or mathematics will never help us develop a sense of morality. We need philosophy for that.
