Notices by samir, a very hard worker (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)

@skinnylatte Totally. Wouldn’t listen to anyone else’s opinion. 😛

The one universal truth about Indians is that we are everywhere, and we need our food. You can find a dhaba anywhere.

@skinnylatte You can absolutely get proper Punjabi food in the UK (or Tamil, or Bengali, or Gujarati, or…), and there are many, many options in London and other big cities. (I miss it so much.)

I used to go to Pakistani places, mostly, because it’s the closest to what I grew up eating. I took some German friends once. That was fun.

But: do not ask a white person. They will direct you to the nearest “curry house”, a.k.a. approximate Bengali or Bangladeshi food with fries and beer.

Almost half the fedi* is Edward. No surprise there.

* if election pollsters can extrapolate from 12 data points, so can I

The Web Design Museum is wonderful.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

I mean, just look at this: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/search-engines-in-the-90s

One really stands out there. Beginning of an era, that was.

@cwebber Thank you. I’ve been feeling like I don’t like computing on the computer much recently but you’re right, it’s not the computer, it’s all the things that get in the way of the computering because of Must Grow Bigger Syndrome.

@jwildeboer Of course it was, it just seems to be about 10x more wrong recently. 😛

@jwildeboer “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” is very last decade, isn’t it? Now you’re the product regardless. You don’t even have to visit the site; they’ll find a way to make you the product regardless.

@rysiek @dysfun @mwl I already bought the book, but it turns out reading it is the hard part.

I did read Savaged by Systemd the other day though. Highly recommended.

@dysfun Why would you tell me this.

Now I’ve gotta fucking learn how to run my own mail server.

Did you not see the part where I’m tired?

Dear Fastmail,

I would very much appreciate it if you didn’t come out in favour of a fascist government. I cannot be bothered to change email provider today. I’m tired.

Much love,

Samir.

If you want to know details, perhaps because you were a fan of Gaiman and need to know the truth, then this thread has them.

Do not read unless you have a strong stomach and, ideally, a very weak empathy gland.
https://mastodon.art/@vicorva/113826905678271418

@GossiTheDog The vapid, pointless suggestions at the bottom of the screen there are the icing on the cake.

I aspire to be as cool as rachelbythebay.

Here’s her list of things her website doesn’t do.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/04/cruft/

She doesn’t mention it, but her Atom feed is also perfect; it’s a first-class way to consume her website. It does not truncate or mangle posts.

Ten years ago, I’d wish people a happy new year or birthday or whatever, and say something like, “I hope you have an exciting year!”

Now I say, “I hope this year is relaxing and free of surprises.”

I don’t know if it’s me that’s changed, or the world.

Probably both.

This was waiting for me when I woke up my computer.

Ominous.

An idea that may or may not be terrible, written down so I can get it out of my head and into someone who can do something about it.

What if we started from scratch with code represented as graphs, not text?

https://functional.computer/blog/starting-from-scratch

It goes without saying, but I’m saying it anyway: if you disagree with me on this, I want to hear it.

Oh mah glob the scroll effect on this article is magnificent.

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

Hard wrap is conflating content with presentation and should be abolished.

(As are spaces for indentation.)