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Rustacean, Haskeller, and reluctant web dev. Fraudulent Etalus main. Tiny equine enthusiast.

https://keybase.io/bb010g

http://elixirkoans.io/ is seeming to be an enjoyable first introduction to Elixir.

I decided to try it out because I also enjoyed http://clojurescriptkoans.com/ , and while neither of these are probably great for programming beginners, you get a nice feel for common corner cases quickly.

Elixir-koans by elixirkoans

I am now at 499 tabs, coming down from 1100+, and probably 20 of the ~80 I went through have all been long-form. I feel kinda drained. I'm not looking forward to the rest of these, which are looking to be pretty much all long-form. 

(I mean, I love to read these things, but doing them in rows that make you feel like you're progressing is a lot more draining than you'd expect.)

LB: I'm good at privacy settings

Good news, everyone!  

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4100

For all you #rust folk, GitHub should be properly treating Cargo.lock files as generated TOML soon, keeping them out of your automatic diff display and providing highlighting when you do look at them.

Teach Generated about Cargo lock files by bb010g · Pull Request #4100 · github/linguist

This PR teaches linguist.generated.Generated about Cargo.lock files. Resolves #3988. Checklist: I am associating a language (TOML) with a new filename (Cargo.lock) . The new filename is used in...

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Ghost in the CLI by Hoffman

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I'm currently starting to learn #elixir / #erlang. If anyone has good resources for those, that would be much appreciated. *Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good* seems really great, but it's not available with Elixir syntax. I'm currently debating starting through that or just diving in with Elixir and Phoenix to try and port a Python RSS reader.
Hello again, Mastodon! I'm back after a bit of a hiatus to refocus and go through my absurd tab backlog. There's so much good long-form content posted here that it builds up, and that, combined with lots of documentation from old projects, made Firefox actually slow down. Hoping Tree Style Tab will help me keep this more under control from now on.
Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces

One of the various projects associated with Project Xanadu™[1] was ZigZag™, a kind of organizer system or mind-mapping tool built around…