Notices by Paul SomeoneElse (pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)

@Aleums @BustaMarx I am glad this is something being made now. I am so uninterested in tech that has a screen for an interface.

I'm guessing those are just the current commodity tape guts.

Actually I take that back looking at the little screws on the tape head and that latch thing.

@thinkMoult @paulshryock Imagine how awesome it would be if form based complex web sites did NOT use react or even javascript? Just plain old GET and POST with decent html forms.

This would be amazing.

Yes I love it when i enter text into a form and javascript somehow always messes it up.
You can enter data so much faster, easier, and more reliably w/o having javascript literally parse every character entered.

lol i got mad thinking about it :P

@km That's cool. I usually develop services using tmux, and then they graduate to rc scripts.

But I never considered automating the tmux sessions. So currently if a machine power cycles my "dev" tmux sessions will go down.

I might have to try this.

@svetlyak40wt @screwtape That seems useful. I'm always going back and mentally checking my package definitions for import-froms/local-nicknames that I don't need anymore.

#commonlisp

I had initially skipped on using define-constant and only use defvar IIRC because of reloading code at the REPL.

I intended to come back to this when it was important enough.

Now I'm reading common-lisp code and I see these two define-constant macros, one from Edi W. and one from alexandria.

https://github.com/edicl/drakma/blob/master/specials.lisp#L35

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/alexandria/alexandria/-/blob/master/alexandria-1/definitions.lisp?ref_type=heads

These look pretty similar, I think I'm gonna start using alexandria's version, because I already have standardized on it for other stuff.

@dougmerritt @screwtape @aartaka @prahou My emacs config pulls in viper mode using the f5 key which effectively gives me vi's colon-command mode in emacs. 😬 It feels like cheeting.

https://codeberg.org/pkw/emacs.d/src/branch/main/keys.el#L10

Like I can do ranged deletes and stuff.
(it's a limited subset of ex but the basics work)

I like playing with #icecast server

http://air.d34d.net:8009/stream

Sometimes i think the rules of time get broken.

How can I pause a stream and come back and the song picks up but it doesn't lose sync with the server?

It must be like lagging the server by some local cache buffer amount (of time).

Wipe all debts.

My dream is to make ncurses TUI programs that make sampled and/or midi wavetable synth noises as you navigate screens and menus.

Like say I build a menu interface and you can navigate via up and down arrows. and Return is select.

I would like to trigger a noise each time you press an arrow key, and maybe a satisfying clunk vault door shut sound when you select an entry.

https://codeberg.org/pkw/open-borders

I'm really liking my latest #commonlisp project structure.

ALSO common lisp and this fit together VERY WELL.

But one of my opinions is that idiom is more important than my opinion.

So when I am in a code base that uses plural table names for example, I am totally not bothered.

I am a serenity prayer programmer 😋

#techpost

I use the word(s) pattern a lot when describing code where 'word' is some specific name so I don't want the plural 's' to confuse that. Writing thing(s) lets me talk about a group of thing instances using the plural w/o making the name confusing to myself.

I also obsess over whether to name something with the plural outright. This comes up a lot in table names. I tend to want to use the singular unless there's a reason not to.

@so_treu I didn't know this. I learned it here recently. And lots of white people don't know this. My white woman liberal friend didn't believe me, when I shared it.
Of course a few web searches later, and it can't be denied.

It changes the perspective (for me) when certain smaller percentage voting blocks are targeted and even shamed , when this fact is out there.

You can't have the monstrosity that is a "browser" and also have it be developed as a community.

You will have to accept something less. When you look at it from that perspective you see that corporations introducing this complex thing that needs a corporation to sustain development is a "first one is free" situation.

This is a general degrowth pattern/problem. Western humans don't like letting go of features, even if they don't need them.

@clacke @baldur @mawhrin @bjn Hah! Yeah this bubble is bursting...

@lanodan @osnews Alpine is great. Feels like a BSD :)
No assumption that gnu is ubiquitous or even available.

@vorlon @SallyStrange Every n-th post links to a t-shirt store.

And what do those hash tag swarms do ? They collect views that and some percentage are funneled to the t-shirt store.

A very capitalistic practice.

@grayface_ghost @goatsarah I mean you're not wrong, but also because you're not wrong, it's not easy to sort it out.

We are so past democracy it's not even relevant. No one in the government represents the people. The machine is so big it's just feeding itself.

Historical the only avenues of change are direct action, protest related, ... or more extreme things that historically only move power to some faction.

If you have any suggestions, that would help.