Notices by Jesse (jaawerth@functional.cafe)

@futurile One upside to Guile Scheme I didn't see mentioned in the survey that's huge for me (though I've only dipped my toe into #guix thus far), is the simple "not a DSL" aspect.

Too many tools use DSL's unnecessarily, which just adds cognitive debt. A relatively minimalist general purpose language is IMO usually friendlier + more rewarding of the time learning it. And when it's a #lisp, you can (if you're a hipster) get going pretty quickly even if it's a dialect you haven't touched before!

@futurile
Fair, it probably is, implicit, but I can't resist calling out the upside as long as so many other tools keep DSLing me 😂

@mattly @technomancy I can push them when my workday ends in 30-60 min, but did you want your authorship + whatever commit message to be included?

I sent mine as just a diff earlier since I didn't care if you rolled it into a larger patch you were working on, but if you want to do a quick git format-patch -1 to send a full commit patch, I can just wait and apply that instead =)

@mattly @technomancy In that case, this is the version using the pandoc variables. I think it's better than the manual html { } rule (though we could also include both). I put it in the Makefile instead of markdown-to-website.lua since I figured it'd make it harder to forget we're relying on those CSS vars externally

@mattly @technomancy I can push a patch after working hours that also includes the pandoc variable overrides, but feel free to apply the quick fix in the meantime if you want to correct it ASAP.

Just to make life easier in the future, browser devtools is clutch for spotting where the rogue styles are coming from. Case in point, here's what I saw in the Computed tab after right-click + inspect on the white margin

@mattly @technomancy

We can set document-css to false to turn off all the embedded style, assuming we aren't relying on some parts of it. Otherwise, yeah, setting it to the CSS variables would be the next thing to try.

Alternatively, we could make our own modified version of pandoc's built-in styles.html, but that is probably overkill if the other approaches work

@mattly @technomancy Success! Turns out there's a much simpler fix than we thought. The problem isn't that it's overridden, it's that we're setting background color on the body, but the margin color is coming from a top-level html { ... } rule. So this actually seems to fix it:

That said, using pandoc metadata to set the injected styles may still be a good idea just to make it more bulletproof. The only downside to doing so is we'll have to remember that we depend on those CSS vars existing in places other than just fennel.css.

@mattly @technomancy

I can make time to look into it some time between now and the end of this weekend unless mattly beats me to it. Unsetting pandoc variables should do it (the man page has a nice Variables for HTML section, btw).

Failing that, we'd just need to add some specificity to our own color/background-color rules, but better to not have to do that if we can avoid it, since it's easier to tell when pandoc options change between pandoc versions than tracking whether changes to its CSS output break our overrides.

@joeo10 fwiw, wasn't trying to drag you for linking it or anything, just expressing my horror after seeing way more armchair venture capitalist takes in there than I'd braced myself for ;-)

@joeo10 @bandcampunited Good lord, I know it's HN, but the private equity bronalysis in that HN thread 💀

@santiago @cstross @aral @TomSwirly @johnbierce
I've been very tempted to give https://kagi.com - a paid search engine - a try after skimming through their FAQ and philosophy and such. Seems weird to pay for it, but given how bad the alternatives have become and that the "free" services model is how we've dug our global vc hell pit in the first place... I've spent more money on less useful things 🤷♀️

@chargrille How normal is it in these sorts of letters to not actually reference specific violations or things that Threads should stop doing? Because as far as I could tell skimming it earlier, the only thing they actually call out is that the app looks like Twitter, and right now you could field a baseball team with apps that look like Twitter.

It struck me as extremely vague, but then I don't read or write letters like these for a living

#startrek #trekposting