This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

Huh, I wonder why I stopped defaulting to SSH for GitHub… seven years ago.

https://git.kejadlen.dev/alpha/dotfiles/commit/0c4d64959d9a510fc55d8b0007e4bf8e64630b80

Totally forgot about this, but this will make managing my dotfiles w/submodules so, so much nicer.

Being on a software team is more like being in a band than working on an assembly line. If two members don't click, you'll get a worse outcome than if one worked solo. In fact, it's far from likely productivity would be halved—it might even increase thanks to less conflict and rework.

And yet almost every software team is assembled as if it were a landscaping crew. Far too little regard is paid to the importance of rapport, creativity, inspiration, positivity, and the overall vibe in the air.

anyone out there hiring early career devs, or think they might in the new year? holler at me, i know a number of amazing young devs who are really excited to get their careers going!

In case you were wondering, about me and cats: well, I have combined my love of cats and linguistics in my upcoming publication: "Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online", which is due out at the end of February. It's available for preorder here: https://www.cambridge.org/at/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/purrieties-language-how-we-talk-about-cats-online?format=PB 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

#cats #linguistics #sociolinguistics #digitalspaces #purrieties #book #dialectology #lexicology

Good thread by @Slavin on just how ineffectual and unambitious is response of US governments (at all levels) to COVID, almost three years in

COVID is transmitted by poorly-ventilated indoor air -- yet no levels of government are willing to address it

https://saturation.social/web/@Slavin/109519395846754071

#covid #health #publichealth

it's time for another aperiodic reminder that about 18 years ago SVG (yes, the vector graphics format) was one step away from having raw network sockets incorporated into the standard https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket

TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

You: "C++ is a superset of C."
@AaronBallman: "No, it isn't."
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3065.pdf

Always interesting when two related yet unconnected posts pass through the feed nearby https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/109400028861061670 https://blog.glyph.im/2022/12/potato-programming.html

"if i replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?"

this argument is known as the ship of thesaurus

Love that 1Password can now remember SSO logins.

https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap

Nice, abbreviations landed in fish, enabling bash/zsh-isms like !-expansion. That was what drove me away from the shell last time I gave it a try, so might need to take another look at it in the future. https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9313

IBM slide, 1979 ... 😅 https://twitter.com/_w0bb1t_/status/1484198603337908226/photo/1

“AI’s Jurassic Park moment”

“It is no exaggeration to say that systems like these pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society”

Eek. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ais-jurassic-park-moment

Python’s 0s are falsy bites me in the butt again. foo and foo.bar (if bar: str) is Union[Foo, str] and not Optional[str], sad.

So Seth Abramson is one of the sloppiest public thinkers I have ever encountered, who circa 2016 helped invent the rhetorical style of the buckle-up-for-some-politics Twitter mega-thread. He has advised people who listen to him that they should avoid "Mastodon" (he means the Fediverse I think).

https://post.news/article/2IanIj231d7nc5bxqOxIJpFfGwe

I cannot overstate how much this means we are doing something right over here.