Notices by Jon (Snarf) Mason (snarfmason@hachyderm.io)

@mattly linode. They are rolled into Akamai now though. So I don't know if I'd choose them fresh. So far not really much has changed for me, but...

I don't have any interest in defending Apple's indefensible App Store cut.

But why is Patreon even an app? It'd be fine as a website using stripe or whatever to process payments.

@mattly I am very sorry to hear that my friend. I, too, have an aunt who has been a relentless force of good in my life. I don't know where I'd be without her.

@mattly all good points. But especially the last one.

@mattly ugh TyoeScript.

Your former employer has asked me about converting our little app over to TypeScript and just ugh.

I don't know if it makes more sense in a fresh code base (although I doubt it) but trying to convert and having bits of both is definitely worse than just JavaScript.

@mattly I was wondering if there was some kind of Unicode Hijinx in play...

Comapny interviewing you: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Where do you see this comapny in 5 years? Your leadership isn't think past next quarter's financial results and your engineering managers are replacing juniors with Chat GPT to save a few cents now.

Are any of you fuckers thinking 5 years into your future?

@mattly @technomancy well I'm not saying LISP isn't best.

@mattly @technomancy I agree with you about trying to design languages to make it harder to make mistakes though and that's why I like the Pony approach.

I'm honestly not sure any way of assigning precedence of binary operators is good.

@mattly @technomancy I agree with the principal. But I honestly don't know which way is better.

There are established conventions for the math operators yes. But those aren't the only binary operators in most programming languages.

What the fuck does order X + Y & Z apply in? (PS: fuck Ruby and whoever else though &&/and have different binding priorities was a good idea).

Once you move past the rules we learned for arithmetic, "go left to right for everything" actually is better, I think.

@technomancy @mattly well as a fellow Smalltalk lover, I can't fault you there. And frankly just evaluate left to right is still better then trying to remember binary operator precedence.

@technomancy I'm not 100% sure it's what @mattly was thinking of, but I think so.

Anyway, a language called Pony makes it a syntax error to mix operators without parens: i.e. 1+2+3 is fine but 1+2*3 is a syntax error.

PEDMAS or BODMAS or whatever can go eat a bag of Dick's (meaning the burger place, of course).

@krono Alacritty seems worth a look. I know some Linux users who use it. I've never seriously contemplated anything other than iTerm until today, but it has got a macOS version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alacritty

@jc00ke @krono @wez oh wezterm looks cool. Thanks Jesse!

@mattly well... yes. In a word.

@mattly well your former employer (my current) switched to it recently. Surely that signals its impending death.

@reiterator @thomasfuchs the statement probably applies to all jobs.

But the software industry is up there with oil and gas in our ability to pretend externalities of our job don't matter and we are all really sure that software is, in fact, a purely technical endeavour.

Most fields know they are social actors.

@mattly heh. That's a pretty good point.

I have questions. Chiefly: Is this joke funnier if you know the two pictured men are or funnier if you don't?

https://hachyderm.io/@ian/111916286580365469

@mattly well shit then.