miniblog.

I *really* like that I can filter my notifications to just mentions. Responses are interesting. Someone clicking 'like' is not actionable and it doesn't warrant the distraction.

Is it possible to respond to toots on other networks? For example, I would like to respond to https://mastodon.xyz/@gregbarbosa/70068 but I cannot see how to.

Twitter is being unbundled before our eyes http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15039062/twitter-unbundling-twitch-reddit-instagram Another interpretation is that we're still figuring out what a social fabric should look like. What features should it have? How do we maximise discoverability? What moderation tools work at scale?

Twitter is being unbundled before our eyes https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15039062/twitter-unbundling-twitch-reddit-instagram (or we're still figuring out what social tools should look like?)

Kicking the tires on https://mastodon.social/: https://mastodon.social/@wilfredh (so far, I'm impressed.)

POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere https://indieweb.org/POSSE This could work really well in the Mastodon system. It'd require users to run their own instances though.

I do miss that I can only post toots from the home page.

I fear I will end up following the same users that I interact with on Twitter. Some interesting new folks too. Oooh, newlines! I believe microblogging has value even without a strict 140 char limit. Twitter has become more generous anyway: @ replies to mulitple users, image links have all become shorter in Twitter's length calculation.

(message "hello world!")

Stochastic program optimization https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/30/stochastic-program-optimization/ (applying ML and genetic programming to loop free code, sometimes beating ICC!)

One interesting consequence of a PR workflow is that your commit messages need to be persuasive. Describe what's changed, but be convincing!

There are many more advice types than I realised! E.g. :override, :filter-args or :filter-return rather than :around

Travis has a new swanky dashboard: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-02-28-introducing-dashboard

ielm is a fantastic elisp interpreter, but you're often better off using *scratch*. Easy to forget when coming from other scripting PLs!

Fun post on the power and perils of Haskell partial functions: https://medium.com/position-development-blog/2-2-5-and-why-compiler-warnings-are-good-e50bc5cfab22