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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
From the originator of a "malicious" open source strategy comes the tragedy of open source foundations!
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Mastodon FeedI end up explaining over and over again that #rustfmt is not good for being applied unconditionally to human-maintained code.
Unlike gofmt-like tools that correct bad formatting, rustfmt forces a canonical form of everything. It replaces all human direction with its own primitive heuristics. It doesn't have common sense, and does not allow to be corrected. This frequently leads to absurdly misformatted code, and pointless changes for the worse.
I'm going to snap and write my own formatter…
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The detritus from narratives based on bad-fit tech popularity contests is everywhere in our consulting work.
Teams can easily paint themselves into a corner with stacks they do not fully understand or own. Shallow understanding of stacks is common, and every increment of underappreciated complexity is a stochastic unhappy surprise.
Avoiding bad times for a team means being skeptical about stacks, running bakeoffs, and ruthlessly matching user needs to tech choices:
https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
An important habit of mind for PMs to break is the siren song of tech-stack popularity contests.
Popularity of a stack is not an asset to your team *unless the stack's essential properties matches your user's needs*.
BigCo's using a stack is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
A large community is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
Documentation is not a reason to adopt if the tech isn't a fit.
The ability too hire is not a reason to adopt...you get the idea.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert
Mastodon FeedHow about no?
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Mastodon FeedDear #OpenSource contributors:
do
not
reformat
the
code.It takes a second to run the formatter, but it requires hours to review the massive patch to ensure there aren't any bad changes hiding among all the spaces and brackets moved around.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A good read:
Mastodon FeedI'll be Batman (in about 12 hours)
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Mastodon FeedHalf a year ago: "I know how to solve this using this ingenious one-liner!"
Today: "What is this weird line of code doing?! Let me rewrite that so it's understandable!"
Half a year from now: "I know how to solve this using this ingenious one-liner!"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Never read Denyse O'Leary, she's such a vacuous, incoherent nobody that it'll suck your brain out through your eye sockets.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/16/the-vortex-of-madness-that-is-denyse-oleary/
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
the thing I don't like about yogurt-based beverages is how they encourage drinking culture
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TatianaIlyina@mas.to ("Prof. Tatiana Ilyina 🌊 O=C=O 🌍") wrote:
#ClimateScientists actually mean what they say.
Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying | Gianluca #Grimalda | The Guardian
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postcardware@botsin.space ("postcardware.net") wrote:
Sent from Marina del Rey, California, U.S.A. on March 15, 1996. https://postcardware.net/?id=2-33
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
15. Knock at the Cabin (2023). I think my theme for this week is gonna be releases from this year. This feels like a pretty gutsy move from Shyamalan, although after the movie I accidentally spoiled myself on the plot of the original novel and it's very, very funny how the two diverge.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
October 2023 Horror Movie a Day Thread, Part 2
Mastodon Feednikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
mi kuiris patkukojn ĉi-matene! tamen mi ne fotis ilin do se vi volas vidi ilin vi devas fermi la okulojn kaj imagi ilin
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novenary@akko.wtf ("[std_logic] novie, sheep of the yas :blobcatwitch:") wrote:
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'“One of the phone calls was from an Arabic speaker who said he had been shot. He asked that we come to rescue him in a field abutting the Gaza Strip. When we got there, we realized that it was a terrorist who was trying to kill us all. Fortunately, we got out alive. Our best weapon is God.”'
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Huck@mstdn.party ("I'm Your Huckleberry") wrote:
No matter your age, it has never been more important for all eligible voters to VOTE in your local elections.
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NPR@press.coop ("NPR :press:") wrote:
A 6-year-old boy was killed in an anti-Muslim attack in Illinois, authorities say
Law enforcement said the 71-year-old suspect who fatally stabbed a young boy and seriously wounded a woman was motivated by the Israel-Hamas war. The suspect has been charged with a hate crime. #press
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedI've improved cargo-xcode recently. It generates high quality Xcode project templates for #Rustlang, with cross-compilation support.
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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:
One part of the enshittification process that @pluralistic leaves out of his equation is third-party developers. Developers are like the canaries in the enshittification coalmine.
They create a huge part of the value of a platform for both end users and businesses.
Platforms encourage this value creation in the ecosystem, and cherry-pick the best apps to either clone or acquire.
Then, they shiv developers with an API TOS change.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“President Biden warned Israel in an interview aired on Sunday not to reoccupy Gaza, his first significant public effort to restrain America’s ally in the wake of the Hamas assault “
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Seriously considering switching VPN providers because I don't like how my current one kerns the V and P in their logo.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
(I laughed out loud when Frankenstein's creature explains to Victor that he is a vegan.)
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Is there any novel that has more popular misconception surrounding it than "Frankenstein"?!
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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:
Despite the end of the Public Health Emergency, C*vid remains a pandemic by definition. Yet the media has uncritically advanced the idea that if the public appears to be tired, bored, or noncompliant w public health measures, then the pandemic must be over
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-pandemic-panic-calm-advice/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
After not finding razor cartridges for my #shaving blade for the third grocery visit in a row (Schick Hydro, nothing exotic) I decided to may be look at a different solution instead of constant model-jumping, courtesy of modern consumer-hostile marketing.
Turns out it's a vast universe out there. Right now I'm feeling overwhelmed with new terminology, brands I never heard of, unfamiliar approaches and problems I never knew I could have :-) Let's see if I can make sense of it.