Mastodawn

Trevoke Aug 13, 2023

```
(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-read-date) (lambda (&rest _) "<2023-08-12 Fri>")))
(org-read-date))
```

So... This is how you stub a function in lisp. Mind blown.

Trevoke Aug 5, 2023

How would the world be different if we were responsible for sharing updates on any information that we have once shared?
.... Probably we'd speak less.

Trevoke Jul 27, 2023

Are there LLMs that generate web/mobile UI yet?

Trevoke Jul 6, 2023

Josh "cortex" Millard Jul 6, 2023

I’m a cranky old-web person but I’m just genuinely fucking mystified that the reaction to either Jack’s or Zuck’s new corporate social media landgrab isn’t a loud unanimous laughing “no, get fucked”. Twitter and Facebook were a warning, not an instruction manual.

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Trevoke Jun 4, 2023

@jbrains Ooh, I don't think I had quite considered that aspect, but that gives me a lot to consider, thanks!

Trevoke May 29, 2023

Pretty much all tools that allow communication with the mass of American population nowadays need a LLM filter to "make this comment neutral" because dear lord people get insulted and offended if we don't prefix a question with four lines of "I'm not trying to offend you".

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Trevoke May 28, 2023

@jbrains I think one of the difficulty things is that it's not about "something done right" but it's about "becoming in the process of doing". The mindset shift is fairly profound, and it can be disheartening when you realize that by former principle, there's no payoff; to define a payoff, it has to be defined in terms of the new mindset, and that's hard to integrate when you're in the old mindset.

Trevoke May 6, 2023

agile_otter May 5, 2023

When you hear "mob programming is expensive," "mob programming is inefficient," and "mob programming raises quality at the expense of throughput" you have pretty good odds (at least 90%) that the person speaking has never spent a few months on a pair-programming or mob-programming team nor managed one.

They're confident it's true because
a) someone else said it
b) working together sounds weird
c) they imagine it is probably just like that

After all, they're very smart people, so why would their intuition be wrong?

Trevoke May 5, 2023

drewtoothpaste.bsky.social May 4, 2023

Trevoke May 2, 2023

@gausby Not portability; portage. That is the package manager for Gentoo. Started off inspired by FreeBSD's port. Incredibly flexible, has "slots" so you can install multiple versions of packages (e.g. gcc, or firefox, or whatever).

The cost of Gentoo was to require ongoing management/maintenance, but the value was a flexible system that ... Always worked.