Subject matter experts tend to be much more precise in their wording. E.g. distinguishing between file and compilation unit in C.
miniblog.
Emacs package of the day: deft is brilliant for quickly creating new notes files (e.g. with org) https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
500 chars is an awful lot.
140 chars is too little (though I have long admired https://twitter.com/MicroSFF writing entire stories in single tweets). 500 chars is enough for me to dither over what I've written.
140 chars enables you to write and edit in a short period. That said, I'm forced to ask 'which abbrevation / grammar fault is least irritating?' regularly.
I will be giving a talk on Remacs this Thursday at the London Emacs meetup: https://skillsmatter.com/groups/10531-london-emacs-hacking#next_up
Remacs now has a Gitter room! https://gitter.im/remacs-discuss/Lobby
Declarative Debugging https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/debugging (Prolog is amazingly flexible in what you can comment out and still have a runnable program)
Code coverage for CSS! https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/850583918545731584
Thinking the unthinkable What we cannot think in programming https://tomasp.net/blog/2016/thinking-unthinkable/ (which questions we ask matters)
Amusingly, Emacs/Vi had text redisplay algorithms which have much in common with React's rendering logic: https://hackernoon.com/model-view-controller-and-loose-coupling-6370f76e9cde
Tail recursion occurs more naturally in prolog, but it's less useful (you may need to preserve the stack): https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/fun
Security bugs in smartphone wi-fi chips: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/wide-range-of-android-phones-vulnerable-to-device-hijacks-over-wi-fi/ (hardware is too complex with many embedded CPUs)
Fun post on CSS minification tricks: https://luisant.ca/css-opts-survey2 (shows the huge set of possibilities and the accuracy/aggressiveness tradeoff)
I suspect the Nintendo Switch interaction model will come to general purpose computing. Why distinguish between laptops and tablets?
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.
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