Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺

@cbowdon
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Yet another software engineer filling up the Internet with drivel. Toots about Clojure, Lisps, Python, JS, GNU/Linux, FOSS, Privacy, Emacs, DevOps, etc. 
#nobot
@[email protected] Thanks! Looks really good! Going to check out LinuxRocks and functional.cafe
@[email protected] I used to think of the home timeline as for “my interests” but the problem is I don’t discover new people very easily that way (for clojure in particular i only have 4-5 regular tooters, despite adding nearly everyone I see that uses the hashtag)

Hmm, the local timeline on Mastodon.social is quite a stream of junk (not vile stuff, just things I have no interest in). Time to stop being lazy and move to less mainstream instance.

Anyone got recommendations for an instance for people interested in:

#clojure
#emacs
#linux
#fp
#foss
#devops

?

@yogthos That’s brilliant. Very nice metaphor for why throwing bodies at a problem doesn’t speed it up.
@ben0_o keep at it man. One day we will shitpost with the best of them
@[email protected] Companies that use Clojure are usually modern enough to also support at least partial remote working (part-remote jobs way outnumber fully remote ones I think)
@art_rbpyjs I had a similar problem recently and found multimethods a better solution
Ever get halfway through writing a toot before realising it’s all bollocks and bailing out? #daily

Regarding climate change the risk model changed.

It used to be: “we have these human driven emissions that create a lot of problems but if we dial the emissions back things normalize within a few decades”

Based on newer research it is: “human emissions have a chance to tip Earth climate into a positive feedback loop, stuck at 4-5C warming from which not even zero human emissions would rescue us”

Most people don’t know yet.

Wondering what to put in the description field on an image? A quick guide:
1. Just say what's in the image--you don't need to say it's an image.
2. Describe only what's relevant to the conversation. "Annalee writing in a notebook" or "An example of candid portraiture" or "A person using a fountain pen" are all good captions of the same image, in different contexts.
3. All text that's meant to be read should be transcribed. Screencap? Transcribe. Sign in background of selfie? Don't transcribe.