Mastodawn

"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!"

~ Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
#quote #USPol

jnkrtech 1h ago

abadidea 1d ago

that particular cadence of scientific communication where they don't take it for granted that you know what a "whale" is but you definitely know what "pelagic" means

jnkrtech 18h ago

LindenShieldARTs 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

What I saw VS What I painted

I see creatures everywhere. 🤭

This original painting is for sale: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/gouache-original-slumber

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #Gouache #Painting #Forest #Mosstodon #OriginalArt #FantasyArt

jnkrtech 18h ago

Cowboy Who?1d ago

Actually, "Test" is under "Sign"

jnkrtech 1d ago

aburka 🫣1d ago

They should invent a kind of nap where you wake up and you aren't tired anymore

jnkrtech 2d ago

Ben Clifford 2d ago

a fake ai transcription bot called toto.ai that you can add to your zoom meetings and it just slowly plays Africa louder and louder rather than transcribing anything

jnkrtech 2d ago

Cripes I am cranky this morning

jnkrtech 2d ago

Eniko Fox 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116408009568440679

would like to have a wee little word with all the people who said everyone was overreacting to the california OS age signal legislation

Show thread

jnkrtech 2d ago

I have seen developers so infected by the idea that comments are bad that they refuse to write docstring comments. Clearly none of us should be looking for external documentation on what libraries do, we should just read their beautiful source. That will make software more maintainable. Clearly it would be far too much to ask people who care so deeply about the quality of their software to look at their docstrings when doing code review. Clearly.

Show thread

jnkrtech 2d ago

“People might change what the code does and forget to update the comments” I have terrible news for you about component names