Elliot Shank

@clonezone
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Music-obsessed software geek. Wrote a good chunk of Perl::Critic. Banner image is “The Gift” by Richard Notkin.

See also @clonezone / https://microblog.galumph.com

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LocationChicago ✶✶✶✶
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Latrine - Depth Charge. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

At Myke’s suggestion, I have accomplished something truly beautiful*, an episode of Connected played via floppy disk

*a waste of several hours
@imyke @ismh86 @viticci @connected

soudain le printemps est là et l’espoir renaît

#spring #sunrise #psychology #illustration #food

New blog post!

I've been investigating out how various languages get away with not requiring semicolons.

I looked at 11 languages and found so many interesting cases I had to share!

https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/

#programming #roto

No Semicolons Needed | Terts Diepraam

The old Illinois National Guard Armory, Chicago (1966)
Photo: Richard Nickel / Art Institute of Chicago

The best privacy money can buy.

North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year....
https://jwz.org/b/yk4s

A long-abandoned locker room, once used by English coal miners. This place was once alive with the bustle and banter at shift changes, workers rushing out at clocking-off time. Now it sits silent and decaying, since the colliery closed in the 1970s.

#England #IndustrialHeritage #LostPlaces

Why subscriptions? A one-time purchase revenue graph, even for a moderately successful app, looks like this. Yet work required only increases in complexity — Pastel has had 40 multiplatform updates since it launched in 2020, including two system UI redesigns, and a whole new OS (visionOS).

One-time purchases just aren't sustainable, unless the product itself is also one-and-done — and that's just not possible on a moving target like Apple's OSes. Revenue can't be inversely proportional to time