Julia EvansMar 25, 2024

started using a Mac as my personal machine recently after exclusively using linux for 20 years and one of the most surprising things has been that the options for creative software (making vector graphics, fonts, etc) on Mac really are much better in many cases

feels like one of those things that everyone knows but I never really internalized

(do not lecture me about the options available on Linux, I promise I know)

Show threadRichard SchneemanMar 25, 2024

@b0rk I hate that it’s required but I love your prompts at the bottom of your posts. It makes me feel like maybe this kind of thing should be a feature of mastodon.

Like the same way when someone goes to open an issue in a github repo and they get an issue template, maybe when someone posts give them the option of specifying a message only people who click the “reply” button see.

Show threadJulia EvansMar 25, 2024
@Schneems haha i guess at least 1 good outcome of having read way too many open source flamewars in my life is that I have 1000 rules like "ah, if I mention creative software on linux a million people will reply with NO BUT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE GIMP" burned into my brain forever and I so can preempt them
Show threadRachael LMar 25, 2024
@b0rk @Schneems tbh I kind of wish the preemptive “reply guidance” was a feature too. Instances could even have their own set of pre-populated options related to the kind of culture they want to encourage (or even fetch similar replies!). I actually said “poor Julia” out loud reading this (& then had to explain to my partner) because while you’re very good at the “reply guidance”, you shouldn’t have to waste characters in the main toot for it!
Show threadJulia Evans
@r343l @Schneems tbh i’m much more upset about the space all this stuff takes up in my brain than the space in the toot :)
Mar 25, 2024 at 2:43pmWeb