Edward Loveall @edwardloveall@mastodon.technology
Software Developer at thoughtbot
Joined Aug 2018
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git typos to consider
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@johnbrayton Postgres is so great
Consider donating to this campaign giving no-strings-attached money to black women in Georgia: https://community.givedirectly.org/campaigns/cbcb518edbde54f8
Cool things about it:
- Comes from recommendations of a local community task force meant to address economic disparity
- There's explicitly no financial literacy training attached. These women know how to spend money, they just need it to spend
- The money given is no string attached. Agency!
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The hero of prophecy: Okay, the next thing the oracle said we need is a magic pendant
Me, appearing suddenly in a puff of smoke to be the newest party member: Actually, you misheard....
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Some good hashtags to check out on the Fediverse:
#BreadPosting - Things people have baked
#DogsOfMastodon - Pictures of good bois
#Florespondence - Plants and flowers
#SFFBookClub - Discussing sci-fi and fantasy books
#MastoArt - Artists on the Fediverse
#Introduction & #Introductions - New people on here, say hello
#NP & #NowPlaying - Music tracks currently listened to
#Caturday - Pictures of cats on Saturdays
#Sporespondence - Mushrooms and other fungi
#SmallStories & #TootFic & #SmallPoems - Fiction and poetry short enough to fit into a toot
#Mosstodon - Pictures of moss
#BandcampFriday - Interesting artists on Bandcamp
#AmReading - Anything you are reading
#AmWriting - Anything you are writing
#AskMastodon & #AskFediverse - Requesting help or info from people on the Fedi
#VendrediLecture - French language discussion of books on Fridays
#MastoRadio - Italian language discussion of music
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Tolkien spent his whole life perfecting the pseudo-history behind things like Elvish gerunds (which is when in English you add "-ing" to a verb). he can therefore be said to have devoted his time to writing The Lore of Their "-ings"
@lutindiscret Thanks, yeah that would be the best way to interact. For myself at least, I know that I'll inevitably share. Even if it's talking with a friend about "that cool thing I saw on platform X", it will eventually point back the platform. I am unable to hold that line π
I feel al little conflicted about this honestly. I love RSS deeply. However, I don't like the dominance and control that many of these big platforms have and I feel like subscribing to their content, even via RSS, fuels these platforms.
At least you're not giving them tons of your personal data while you enjoy the content though Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Check out this great list of #rss bridges to popular platforms: https://gist.github.com/thefranke/63853a6f8c499dc97bc17838f6cedcc2
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Do you prefer to buy DRM-free ebooks?
You can read them on any device you want, and they're not locked to a single vendor or company. You actually own them.
Here is a list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, and RPGs!
@noyovo Oof yes. Thanks. I shouldn't code late in the day. I'll try to fix that today.
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The CDC says you can now dereference pointers as long as they don't *look* null
@noyovo Hi! Thanks and sorry I didn't respond. I just added some more instruction on scribe.rip to help people figure this out. I didn't want to pick a particular domain to link to because I felt weird about targeting a particular site. Hopefully it's easier to figure out for everyone now! π
@mildbeard Great question. I think some argue that it's impossible. One thing I've been thinking about is keeping multiple, competing goals in balance, and continually evaluating their efficacy as a whole. e.g. "DRY + easy for new comers + easy to change" instead of only "DRY".
Attempting to measure more artful metrics can be useful too. How fast can a new hire get up-to-speed? How quickly can we fix prod issues? How confident are we that we can deploy with no issues every time?
This is all pretty well summed by Goodhart's law, btw:
It's difficult though. Much easier to know when your code is perfectly DRY than when you've written "good" abstractions.
Software Developer at thoughtbot
Joined Aug 2018
