Somewhat unintuitively, the more experience you get as a developer the more you have to lean into documentation and search

Earlier in your career you're more likely to specialize in just a small number of projects built with a tight collection of tools and languages - making it relatively easy to keep everything in your head

As you gain competence the scope of projects you can take on expands way beyond what's possible if you're not constantly looking things up!

Saw a post about how fedi bigots are feeling so isolated by defederation that they're making secret "normie" accounts so they can have human connection and like... this is where it all went wrong isn't it?

Instead of shaming and ejecting bigots and bullies from civil society we let them in and comment on our tweets and facebook posts and YT videos. And then liberals for whom this is all a game cause they remain largely unaffected were like "no! let's debate them in the marketplace of ideas!"

No. You make them afraid of the cost of going mask off. You make it not worth it. So that they hide and attempt to interact like normal human beings instead of demons wearing human skin. And even if they stay shitty, if they keep it a secret they can't spread it easily to others

If you haven’t noticed, I’m big on common courtesy.

The little things like introducing yourself to people you don’t know before assailing them with questions, asking about and respecting people’s boundaries, respecting pronouns, apologizing when you’re wrong, etc.

We often forget we really don’t know each in this space, so we take courtesy for granted. But those small things build trust that eventually blooms into a community.

We’re all people looking for some kind of connection, and finding those connections is so much easier when we have a baseline respect for our shared humanity.

Don’t take the small things for granted. They are the bricks that build bridges between our wildly different experiences and backgrounds.

Oh yeah, I’m definitely in the latter camp. All OSes are awful but macOS is the least awful.

RE: https://weirder.earth/users/noracodes/statuses/109621755810545052

Devon Henry was ready when the time came upon him. 👏🏾

"For a Black man to step in carried enormous risk. Henry concealed the name of his company for a time and long shunned media interviews. He has endured death threats, seen employees walk away and been told by others in the industry that his future is ruined. He started wearing a bulletproof vest on job sites and got a permit to carry a concealed firearm for protection."

#BlackMastodon
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3YXoixg

Phil Ting's #FreedomToWalk Act is now law in California. You can cross the street anywhere as long as you're not creating a hazard.

#Jaywalking, the fake "crime" created by automobile industry lobbying to blame victims of #TrafficViolence, no longer exists in California.

Enjoy your freedom to walk! https://ktla.com/news/california/new-law-allows-californians-to-legally-jaywalk/

The #Rust compiler codebase looks like this, so that the output you see can look like that

So much yes. https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/572330-i-do-no-t-care-about

What happened to the then-growing #atheist movement from the 2000s? The leadership happened.

Atheists are on average less likely to be racist than Christians. This doesn't mean all Christians are racist, nor does it mean no atheists are.

While Sam Harris is arguably the worst, a lot of prominent atheist leaders fell down the anti-SJW rabbit hole. There weren't enough anti-racist atheists to push back against them when they did.

1/4

https://youtu.be/JvemuO2mL14

Find someone who flirts with you the way Judith Butler flirts at a linguistics conference

I was not ready for the suggested alternative to the Windows sleep command in this ss64 page https://ss64.com/nt/sleep.html

Cough, Kubernetes, cough. https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-5652-the-nps-effect

I spent many hours in bookstores during high school and college. Reading about this turnaround of Barnes and Noble makes me want to check it out again, even though I rarely buy dead-tree books anymore.

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/how_might_generative_ai_change_programming.html

Is programming the best mechanism of turning specifications into software? There are certainly cases when the answer is “no”, whether that’s due to the use of domain specific languages, or glueing existing systems together in some way. That said, the history of software so far suggests that, to misquote Churchill, programming is the worst mechanism for turning specifications into software except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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I find it easier to understand this by considering the problem in reverse. For example, imagine if you converted all the hashmaps in your favourite bit of software into arrays: you’d have exactly the same “functionality” but your software would probably become unpleasantly slow. In other words, the (correct) use of hashmaps is part of the specification — however, very few non-programmers would have thought to specify their use. As this suggests, user-level specifications are almost never complete — they leave out things that a good piece of software must address. Programming is the means by which we both understand what’s been left out and fill in the resulting blanks.

Let’s talk honestly about your city.

If your city still thinks that the job of streets is to move cars, you have LOTS of work to do.

If your city thinks that the job of streets is to move people, that’s really important progress.

But never forget that streets are for a LOT more than just movement. Great streets are places for people to NOT WANT to move, or to want to move really slowly.

#cities #urbanism #transportation #cars #streets #people
Graphic via @Colvilleandersen

RT twitter.com/@vixenvalentino: @emmaogreen “The Case For Washing Hands Forever” by Emma Green

“Ignaz Semmelweis believes people should clean their hands before delivering babies, and that women shouldn’t die of preventable childbed fever.

What a fucking freak that guy was.” https://twitter.com/vixenvalentino/status/1608329856424591361

Akkoma/Pleroma has the first feature, thankfully, but the second is so direly needed.

RE: https://lol.camp/objects/185529c7-04d3-4493-904e-365c5dbc81a1

Best naming ever

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.