* YEARS OF OBJECT HIERARCHIES and XML and JSON yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for putting a list of things inside a thing that is ALREADY IN A LIST OF THINGS
* "I like remembering how to index into this GIANT NESTED OBJECT", "What reading values out of a file really needs is A COMPLEX PARSER DEPENDENCY and EXTRA TYPE JUGGLING AT SYSTEM BOUNDARIES" - statements dreamed up by the least helpful nerd on Stack Overflow
as best i can remember, not hitting shift unless i really need to has been my whole deal on the internet since some time in the 1990s, but i think i'm finally emotionally prepared for the full return of Significance Caps.
@technomancy@robey yeah, while i think it's pretty safe to say that mine is atypical of modern dev machines, i won't deliberately get node on any system i don't think of as completely disposable. i'll suffer through python dependency thrash here and there, but only because my work requires it.
on reflection: i think maybe the possibility space for "dev machine" and what people consider reasonable is too fractured to admit of easy generalizations.
sort of interesting to think about what part of what i like about the aubrey–maturin novels overlaps with what i like about star trek and what part doesn't.
a request for persons who have a folder with your go-to memes, weird little pictures, comics, etc. like the stuff that you post so often that you saved a copy.
post at me with like what strikes you as the most frequently / enthusiastically posted thing from that collection. your signature jpeg/gif/png/whatever.
this scrollbar doesn't exist until you hover over the UI element you need to scroll (no other indication there's hidden content), and then it's like 2px high until you manage to hover directly over it, at which point it graciously gives you like 4px to click and drag.
we had such beautiful things, once. scrollbars wide enough to click, with clear indicators of current page position and even length. aesthetically satisfying little arrow buttons.
i guess we've like pretty much given up on content warnings entirely, so i know the relatively rich and broadly respectful set of things people used to use them for is entirely off the table, but i'd dearly love if at least uspol made a comeback.
@gwenprime i seem to have shed a few lately and am sitting at a nominal ~1k, which i assume equates to about 60 active accounts. it kind of feels like the danger threshold would be somewhere around, i don't know, a couple hundred people actually paying attention?