Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:
1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.
2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,
3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.
4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.
@simonsaidthis @godlessmom
From the looks of it, Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius was the first to give it a systematic use and it's why you see chemical formulae such as NaCl.
A handful of trademarks used it before the 1970s.
When computing became prevalent, this was adopted as one of the standards for naming conventions (among hyphens, underscores, Hungarian notation, etc.) and the Pascal language in particular derived the term #PascalCase, aka upper camel case (see the first letter).
@vagrant @simonsaidthis @godlessmom
It's the convention of including the type and/or intent of the identifier in its name.
bLocked for a boolean that determines if something is in use or not.
nSize for an integer size of something.
u32Max for an unsigned, 32 bit int that will be used as a limit.
In the languages I use (strongly typed ones), it's overly verbose, redundant, and can be confusing if the beginning isn't obvious.
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