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@DenubisX @vascorsd That's not an Android app, correct? Just to clarify.

"So the #1 best rule [for going viral] is: Have overwhelmingly awesome content. So good that people intrinsically want to spread the word." https://blog.asmartbear.com/darwinian-explanation-and-advice-for-going-viral.html From: Darwinian explanation and advice for “Going Viral”

Mastodon is rapidly maturing as a microblog platform! "Mastodon and the W3C – Hacker Noon" https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 Especially impressive because evolving distributed protocols is difficult!

Mastodon is rapidly maturing as a microblog platform! https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 (impressive because evolving distributed systems​ is hard!)

Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/28/using-chatbots-against-voicespam-analyzing-lennys-effectiveness/ (&what makes a convincing human from a recording!)

Here's all the ways pitest will mutate your code to verify tests:

Thought-provoking article: scale OS software by corporate backing, or monetise PR review, as merging PR labour is scarce! https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/906953748143935489

Interesting SO topic on writing a good hash function for ints: https://stackoverflow.com/q/664014/509706 (tricky to handle ints divisible by a common factor)

Shower thought: are tuples less useful in PLs where the type system encodes the length of lists?

Interesting library for infix syntax in Common Lisp: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/cmu-infix (ironically I find it tricky to read,but I blame unfamiliarity)

Comment sorting is hard. Using points, content deteriorates as you approach the bottom. When should you stop reading?

Another really interesting feature of PIT: weight coverage based on how many calls required to reach the code!

Java is also exploring a train based release model! https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster (I don't envy the complexity of releasing a PL with huge usage)

Pitest is a nifty mutation testing tool. It focuses on mutating expressions covered by unit tests, maximising speed!

I'd like autoformatters to make more elaborate changes than just indentation. Convert for loops to map, or inline trivial helper functions!