Notices by stephen judkins (stephenjudkins@mastodon.social)

Type of guy who loves to commit lockfiles and tweak code formatter settings to juice his contributor ranking in his company's git repo

Gunned down in its prime https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/04/gm-confirms-chevy-bolt-will-die-this-year-making-way-for-electric-pickups/

@mattly My feelings on Go (as an observer, not a user): there are reasons a language gets popular/adopted and reasons a language is actually "good", some of these are in conflict, and Go has gone all-in with the former

Called it https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274517706.html?ref=welcometohellworld.com

[grumbles] time to pay my [dramatic air quotes] arts tax

@mattly right, but it still doesn't show up in your mentions, which is a pretty important part of the whole thing IMO

Just saw a post and thought "I would love to respectfully QT this with some important context" but then I remembered that you can't do that here because [argle bargle]

Me: I am writing this linting tool
Coworker: you should just put in a PR to our linter
Me: [writes PR]
Maintainer of linter: wtf is this shit, why would anyone want it

The level of "magic bullshit" in the modern javascript ecosystem is extremely high

I would love to experience a regular 100F diurnal temperature variation. Hot as hell at 4PM but bitter cold at midnight. Would be an extremely fun challenge for those of us who enjoy strategically opening and closing windows

A+ marketing

A lot of people on here seem pretty dedicated to the obviously wrong idea that the current crop of AI language and image models don't produce any impressive results at all

We completely stopped enforcing DUI laws, so now we are getting wrong-way freeway crashes at 8 PM https://katu.com/news/local/four-injured-in-interstate-405-crash

Driving cars makes people astonishingly whiny and entitled https://jalopnik.com/its-not-the-bike-lanes-fault-youre-a-bad-driver-1850269918

@dansinker was always a bit puzzled how "created a mediocre programming language during a week-long stimulant binge" was such a claim to fame

The best thing I've seen written on Musk and Twitter is this random YouTube comment (that I can't find a way to link to directly)

@evan yeah, but it shouldn't be. Probably some nuance lost

Kind of confused how the economy of "the last of us" works

@evan I'd say they could just pay cloudflare but at their scale...

@evan given how the "search" basically doesn't work for anything other than hashtags, I think it's misleading to have it called that anywhere