Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@puppygirlhornypost2 among the many things I love about Discworld, there is also the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

@ramiro no I know, and same, but we're making some real changes to our shopping habits

when they first had the breitbart thing, I thought, wouldn't a browser extension warning people be neat? I still think that but have no spoons for it

@ramiro I’m going to see if I can stop supporting stores that use it

Next up on Login Bingo, overriding input affordance behavior is both hard to get right and rather rude, so maybe don't do make people Type This Way https://lyonheart.us/login-bingo/type-this-way/

@robotdeathsquad nooooope

that machine gets its own apple account with the employer-provided email address

same with any other service, such as github

in addition to being generally good hygiene, it’ll also protect you from data & legal threats should your employer get embroiled in legal shenanigans

ask me how I know

@nasser @cemerick My favorite thing to mention to the “law and order” crowd is how big of a fan I am of speed limits and how there needs to be harsher penalties for breaking those laws

Shuts ‘em up every time

"I can't open this `.txt` file, whatever it is, can you re-upload it as Word or Excel or whatever?"
– something actually said to me today

@jenniferplusplus people *say* they want things to be distributed but they often don’t really understand the implications of that

anyway glad to have had my left-pad moment

the forcing function forces, and perhaps one shouldn't construct a plugin ecosystem around git submodules: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/pull/2075

@cR0w This goes for anything really

I'm back at login bingo, 24 antipatterns around logging into a system that will have an associated bingo card generator when I'm done with it. I call today's pattern "But First You Must" – People should not be unnecessarily interrupted while logging into a system

https://lyonheart.us/login-bingo/but-first-you-must/

@technomancy yes, and I *also* put a space after the leading parenthesis for visual balance. Most linkifiers don’t do this these days but you can never be too careful

I’m also a bit weird with punctuation in that my personal style has sentence-ending punctuation that is not a part of a literal quotation outside of the quotes, such as “you know,”.

and of course, oxford commas

@janl Lies, Damned Lies, and Comma Separated Values

finally got a chance to use Ledger (https://ledger-cli.org) in anger and, damn, this is a great "File over App" format for doing double-entry accounting

I'm half-tempted to try my hand at building a desktop/mobile app that can work with this file format, plain text accounting rules

@technomancy maybe, just out of spite, the order of columns between each row set could be randomized

@pathunstrom mostly I just want to look at the file as a table

but like all these memory/type-safe rust CLI tools for inspecting CSVs panic if the first line isn't the canoncial header list, even if you tell them not to

even the lightweight GUI tools I have assume the first line is canonical number of fields

falsehoods programmers believe about CSV files

this file, it's like; every other row is headers for the row that follows, as if each row is its own separate sub-file

@pseudonym I needed the llol, thanks