Notices by The ol' tealeg 🐡 (tealeg@mastodon.online)

@GossiTheDog this one is sooooo for @shriramk :-D

@shriramk that's a message with mixed blessings!

At the rate this presidency is going, Mastodon might be the only social network we Euro types can viably use. :-/

@shriramk @GossiTheDog - ah, I've pretty much given up on BSky again.

@rsc @oec now, now, Russ, don't mess with my emotions like that 😍 - I'm anyone's fool.

“Basic instructions” has become one of my favourite ways to pass a few seconds at the start of a busy day. This take of the threat of AI made my day.

https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2025/3/24/how-to-weather-change

Using #openbsd today means making some of the same sacrifices / accepting some of the same constraints, as being a #Linux user 20 years back. I’m generally ok with that, for my personal laptop. Work requires me to use a Mac , which I find ok, but generally a bit crippled and dumb compared to a Linux machine. If anyone ever tells you that Macs just work, give them a lollipop. Today I am still pretty convinced that Linux would be the best user environment for most software development.

@shriramk one could prefix the the colour with a "c", making "ctan" - that definitely wouldn't create any namespace clashes in the domain of computing commonly used in academia...

@shriramk I appreciate that mode of thought. Once, many years ago (the 90s), I wrote a little pre-processor so I didn't have to type "color" and "center" in HTML files when they clearly should be "colour" and "centre".

A #programming #language called #cricket?

I wonder if the etymology,
of this blessed terminology,
is based in purest entomology?
Or is it rather sorts psychology,
that shaped cricket for you and me?

https://github.com/RyanBrewer317/cricket_rs

cc. @shriramk

@shriramk perhaps they’ve been hanging out with the folks from Jane Street (OCaML nerds) or NuBank (Clojure geeks). Clearly what the world is lacking is a good Racket powered fintech.

@shriramk They literally pirated it? Jeeeeez...

@RL_Dane @amoroso @sgharms @amin
Yes, #lisp is a ton of fun to program in. Once you've done it, you'll never quite be able to give up on it.

@alfredo I think we’ve been in a constant state of flux between the convenience of the packaged experience and the control and learning opportunity of something a bit more hands on. Linux , minix and BSD offered us a way out of the proprietary OS trap, but smartphones, tablets and the cloud have robbed beginners of the easy path to understanding. Of course you can run K8s at home, but it’s not natural or obvious to do so.