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by abathur 4y ago
I gather this happens a lot, relatively speaking. In early 2001, a junior in a webmastering class I took (I was a sophomore) introduced me to an LPMud, and it's ~recursively changed my life again and again. It was what finally taught m
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by abathur 4y ago
I look forward to finding out how recursive all-AI chumboxes will try to pick the scabs of our psyche.
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by abathur 4y ago
I'm always cautious about who I recommend Nix to, but I usually say that one of the best things waiting on the other side of the learning curve is what an incredible always-improving lever nix and nixpkgs can be for just about any ta
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by abathur 4y ago
Is there not a chance that the professor might, in fact, be correct in her assessment of the motivation of these upperclassmen and decent ? It's not like anyone's proposed sentencing them to death. (Or any punishment at all?) Mos
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by abathur 4y ago
Credential spray-n-pray
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modular bash profile scripting with shellswain(t-ravis.com)
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by abathur 4y ago
To keep others from patenting publicly-funded inventions?
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Visible mending is the new couture(imgur.com)
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by abathur 4y ago
I haven't played around with the make-alikes, but I have also taken to using make for this sort of thing. My blog, for example, has make targets for things like making a production build, publishing, cleaning out generated artifacts, a
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by abathur 4y ago
I'm optimistic about Web Components at the design/behavior level. It's nice to see us inching towards a world where the web stack has the native tools to handle all of the design/application responsibilities we've h
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by abathur 4y ago
This seems like the same basic concept as https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...
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by abathur 4y ago
The ~document chaos is real, but it's terminological chaos from before computing that turns into trouble when you're trying to mark it up. Before computers, you could still reasonably use the term document to refer to things as di
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by abathur 4y ago
Is the "Institute for New Economic Thinking" some sort of journalistic publication?
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by abathur 4y ago
I have been starting to suspect that a big part of the gap may be a sort of field guide to real-world patterns with context on what's new/old, where they are used/useful, and so on.
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by abathur 4y ago
What systems have you encountered this on? (just curious; not trying to minimize)
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by abathur 4y ago
I haven't used it, but afaict the --ignore-environment flag is intended for roughly the same usecase. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4359#issuecomment-907768... notes some differences.
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by abathur 4y ago
A dev shell is designed to allow the outside environment to be accessible (so you've got access to tools you'd want to invoke while working that aren't strictly project dependencies).
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by abathur 4y ago
I've taken to saying that the ~emergent behavior here underscores what an incredible bootstrap written language is. I think of it as a savant-esque capability. A glimpse of what we might be like if some slices of our language/memo
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by abathur 4y ago
I suspect a lot of it's inertia from before the choice mattered or was actually reflected on (though I guess there are still plenty of projects changing). It's easy, most projects can satisfice with it, and people on the projects
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by abathur 4y ago
Verbosity is the obvious answer, but this past year I stumbled into a conclusion that wasn't obvious to me before: "semantic" HTML isn't serving authors' needs--it's serving the UA's needs. I picked at w
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by abathur 4y ago
Good sign of a persistent yak-shaver :)
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by abathur 4y ago
A kind of motte-and-bailey, I guess.
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by abathur 4y ago
Enjoying pup recently myself. Used it for a little demo/post on shell packaging approaches in Nix this summer https://t-ravis.com/post/shell/no_look_no_leap_shell_with_ni...
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by abathur 4y ago
lulz certainly abound here--there's been a lot of great comedy in this. But I read the GP to mean they've seen people crossing a thin line. I doubt any of us are above a bit of schadenfreude when the fates deal a fair dose of karm
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by abathur 4y ago
The cruelty does seem to be the point. Not sure how we escape the gravity of it.
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by abathur 4y ago
Yeah... same boat. Photographed my notebooks and put them in. Sigh.
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by abathur 4y ago
It's an incredibly flexible toolkit. Not calling it bad! It just isn't cut along the seams we'd cut it along if we were building it fresh. There's tons of evidence in the record-of-innovation that people are iterating ar
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by abathur 4y ago
> Let’s take a break from all these principles and architectures, and remember that CSS is ultimately about implementing visual designs. I enjoyed the overview (though the web component/shadow Dom bits others noted here would have b
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by abathur 4y ago
Yes?
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by abathur 4y ago
In a conversation elsewhere recently I wrote: > I think Markdown is popular because it’s a reasonably intuitive bridge between how we format handwritten documents (which is itself a blend of what makes sense on the page, and an approxima

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