Posts by oak@merveilles.town
(DIR) Post #A3TJX9sLuDMjjB1z3A by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-21T07:41:01Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
I thought about this a lot in 2020, after writing mainly JS for ~6 years now:https://hisham.hm/2020/01/20/dynamic-type-systems-arent-even-simpler/
(DIR) Post #A3TJXBCwx7R5rLfwnI by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-21T07:42:13Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Before JS, I mostly wrote Java. And honestly? I miss having clearly defined types, and having more confidence after the compiler had run.That said, not having to think about types can be really nice for hacking together small programs!
(DIR) Post #A3TQlz7krT0EPBFhui by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-21T20:45:24Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@fluffy @zaph @lanodan could y'all please un-@ me on this subthread 🙏
(DIR) Post #A3U1hV7q9NHEVn18e8 by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-22T02:51:14Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
What if..mastodon, except without federation. Each instance has the space to develop its own deeply unique culture, separate from the rest of the internet. And while travel between instances is possible, it's more akin to going on a journey to a far away place, and finding yourself immersed in their local instance's culture, vs simply seeing other instance's members aggregated in your local timeline.
(DIR) Post #A3XZjh5L1nnnwnO20e by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-23T20:32:35Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@xj9 I also use qutebrowser when I can, and `w3m -dump $URL | less` for reading articles.
(DIR) Post #A3rtGAUZ0uK8hyaBdY by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-02T02:13:56Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Wow. Privileged programming wisdom at its finest."Do not localize. English is the STANDARD language."https://aiju.de/misc/c-style
(DIR) Post #A3rtGBuTk2eD6diOfY by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-02T02:16:15Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Write your code in whatever language or combination of languages works best for you & the folx you work with.
(DIR) Post #A45z7KYPAGhnuXgneC by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:39:49Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/This article describes the capitalistic mechanisms that killed off web*sites*
(DIR) Post #A45z7M8bHBFip5dDhg by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:40:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
It makes so much sense: the inverse-sorted timeline, it's *always hungry for more content*.Imagine how wild it would be if your mastodon TL was "done for the day", or the year, or just *done*.
(DIR) Post #A45z7NgfW069d2ZwRc by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:43:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Capitalism thrives by making things *legible*. Blogs are delightfully easy to parse and index compared to hand-coded websites. Blogs are very quantifiable.
(DIR) Post #A45z7OgLofREiLRCaW by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T02:04:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
starting to mess around with making a websitehttp://eight45.net
(DIR) Post #A45z7P9Q4agsAV2Ptg by oak@merveilles.town
2021-01-08T01:45:57Z
0 likes, 2 repeats
If your mastodon instance was "done", then you could start to explore new mediums for communication and self-expressionInfinite timeline apps just keep you sucked in, creating content for its timeline, forever
(DIR) Post #A4602XuMBepXpmEuoK by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-05T22:11:53Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
Today I learned about entr(1):http://eradman.com/entrproject/
(DIR) Post #A46sEpSY9TNhGjXU24 by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-09T20:36:39Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
(DIR) Post #A4NChT7WYjGOugFLto by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-17T17:58:19Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
Fucking adoring /The Long Way/ by Bernard Moitessier."In the beginning they could not understand my insistence on getting away from the compass; that god of the West. But in exchange, they began to hear the sky and sea talking with the boat. And when blue-tinted land appeared on the horizon, looking as it did to the mariners of old, all nimbed with mystery, a few of them felt that our rigorous techniques should leave a door open to those gods which the modern world tries so hard to exclude."
(DIR) Post #A4NW36qByNVPJYAk8e by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-17T21:58:11Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@nomand @rek @neauoire is this now up somewhere?
(DIR) Post #A4UXoUPdbyIe5kcyrg by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-19T07:52:59Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@dogstar 'tired computing' is real
(DIR) Post #A4ZquLLt54KueFB5xA by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-23T20:38:11Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
Ever wanted to learn the email program `mutt`? You might find these two guides helpful!- https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/- http://mutt.postle.net/
(DIR) Post #A4ZquMuJIZSvTII6FM by oak@merveilles.town
2021-02-23T20:55:04Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I am also a resource! I've been using mutt for over 7 years. Ping me with questions if you have any!
(DIR) Post #A4sVUQcCU2xYPMqeeG by oak@merveilles.town
2021-03-04T07:47:46Z
0 likes, 2 repeats
http://solarprotocol.net/index.html