Perhaps it would be useful for Mastodon instances to provide their own preconfigured clients.
Federated tooting has several similarities to email, but when I send email on my phone, I use the GMail or Yahoo apps. They're tailored and require less setting up.
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Difftastic works really hard to find similarities between the before and after file. Sometimes this works wonderfully (see first screenshot) and sometimes it goes way too far (see second screenshot).
It's matched up a few variables and semicolons from adjacent functions!
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On the large number of similarities between software engineering and other kinds of engineering:
Imagine we JIT compiled syscall handlers in the kernel, based on runtime facts about known constants: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1676
An interesting idea that's little explored since Alexia Massalin's phD. Arguably unikernels have some similarities, but compiler tech is more mature now.