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

@mattly I've been experimenting with the Kensington Orbit family.

I'm actually using the fusion which is wireless but by AA battery not internal.

There is a wired member of the family though.

@mattly @ramiro it's a good goal. Tobe is Canada's Elon.

But sometimes avoiding Shopify means more Amazon. Is that a win?

@mattly I don't think universal variables are a very good feature. I know fish uses them internally for some things but I don't ever set any on purpose. I use set -x or set -g (or occasionally set -gx) in fish.config instead. Even when things stay set -U I don't do it.

@mattly it's particularly egregious since you actually did try.

No: The website doesn't work, that's why I'm calling. Don't tell me it works when it doesn't.

@mattly

Did they just tell me to go fuck myself?l

Yes, Matthew, I believe they did.

@mattly I've been pretty happy with my Orbi setup.

Main router is in my office beside my cable modem. Got a couple other satellites in the living room and one near my wife's computer.

Some satellite models have Ethernet jacks. My wife's got a desktop not a laptop and she's wired to the satellite near her.

That's the only Ethernet cable in my house that's not in my office.

@mattly ah finally a man who understands the nuance.

Adding the BBQ sauce is good and good quality pineapple is key.

Pork and pineapple in the cookout style IS a good flavour combination.

Crappy canned pineapple can really ruin it and your basic ham + pineapple on tomato sauce isn't exactly compelling.

But when done well pineapple on pizza can be glorious.

@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