Notices by Greg Whitehead (grwster@mastodon.social)

@jwz Hah, thanks, I had the same question

@jwz This is awesome. I might print it out and hang next to this print from @minouette that I have on the wall in my office https://spore.social/@minouette/113305530706246617

@inthehands @eff 100% this! I’m a longtime supporter of both EFF and ACLU and they both have fallen into this trap, but are still a net positive

@jwz Hah, I got sucked into looking at that when I saw your post and decided that it must be a bug before pulling myself away. BTW, how are you connecting your blog posts to mastodon and getting replies as comments? I’d like to do something like that myself

@inthehands point taken, but circling back to HTML, a certain amount of interpretation by the rendering engine is allowed… so, are programming languages by definition always tightly specified?

@inthehands orchestral scores / sheet music / guitar tabs, definitely programming… I’m a flawed machine when running those programs, but that’s not the programmer / composer’s fault ;-)

@inthehands fair enough, though teaching a dog a trick is about capturing behaviors and putting them on command, and then chaining those commands, which is more like programming than teaching in my book

@inthehands 100%! LaTeX is programming, HTML is programming, Markdown is programming, teaching your dog to do tricks is programming. Not all programming is writing kernel drivers

@jwz btw, the landing page after signing up on patreon still suggests sharing to Xitter... don't know if that's something you have control over or not

@jwz Ugh, finally got off my butt and joined the patreon... we don't make it up to SF as often as we used to, but I appreciate your effort keeping DNA Lounge open!