Post APNhZuVQ6kCAS7kws4 by aut@mastodon.sideslip.social
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(DIR) Post #APNhZuVQ6kCAS7kws4 by aut@mastodon.sideslip.social
2022-11-07T22:19:19Z
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I'm sliding from "run my own mastodon instance" to "write my own server software" a little too quickly.
(DIR) Post #APNhZv1KC7iS34gQbI by dltq@oslo.town
2022-11-08T03:21:04Z
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@aut Haha! Luckily, I can’t code anything, so my path will not be the same.
(DIR) Post #APNhZvXaGBWJf7mBsm by aut@mastodon.sideslip.social
2022-11-08T03:23:18Z
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@dltq Well in my case I just looked at the spec and went "Nah, too much to learn right now" 😜
(DIR) Post #APNhZw1iS9chAZsFqi by thor@berserker.town
2022-11-08T03:24:26Z
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@aut @dltq these open protocols that anybody may implement have a tendency to cause that sort of thing don't they
(DIR) Post #APNhZwSepzAqW8TlqK by thor@berserker.town
2022-11-08T03:25:03Z
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@aut @dltq it's like this disease that developers sometimes, uh, develop, in which they get an urge to implement their own Lisp dialect
(DIR) Post #APNhZx7mN64EZfibwG by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
2022-11-08T03:31:53.177256Z
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@thor @aut @dltq sometimes code just turns out to be a lisp implementation, it's completely subconscious.
(DIR) Post #APNha0rcT7WAAiBlJ2 by thor@berserker.town
2022-11-08T03:26:15Z
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@aut @dltq no one actually writes any code in Lisp. they just use it to make another Lisp. this is the primary purpose of the language, as far as i'm concerned.
(DIR) Post #APNi1A9u1D9Somgcxk by aut@mastodon.sideslip.social
2022-11-08T03:27:05Z
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@thor @dltq My understanding was that Lisp is a write only language (as in, you never read it again once written)
(DIR) Post #APNi1AuLEYIZ8oPiLY by thor@berserker.town
2022-11-08T03:28:22Z
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@aut @dltq if Elmer Fudd invented the writeable compact disk, it would be called the CD-WOM