Daniel Janus

@nathell
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My mission is to enjoy life and make the world a better place – one with less hatred, disdain and violence, and more care and mutual support. (I'm thus inherently a leftist.)

I'm a programmer by vocation and occupation. I also love people close to me, cats, Scrabble, and cycling.

Keen to hear from like-minded people!

Homepagehttps://danieljanus.pl
Pronounshe/him (PL: https://zaimki.pl/@nathell)
Identitycishet male against pervasive patriarchalism
Tooting inPolish and English
Clojure: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming April 16th! 🚨

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I just found out that one of my favourite poems – one of those that I can recite by heart from memory – was translated into English, by none other than Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.

Behold:

i couldn't describe my relationship with vim any better than drew just did.

his vim classic is exactly how software should be built: no new features.

meanwhile i'm switching back to vi ❤️
A eulogy for Vim

This is making the rounds in the meme shitpostery channels but I haven’t seen it on here and I found it really heartwarming so here
(by Horpus Corpus)

This sci-fi author chose Emacs over AI tools.

https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

It's FOSS
New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html
@neilmadden My thoughts run along the same lines: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/12/27/llms/
On LLMs in programming

Z okazji Dnia Kobiet, moi drodzy, życzę Wam wszystkim MATRIARCHATU.

W obecnej sytuacji nic innego już nie ma najmniejszego sensu.

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I am not the first person to point out that a “Luddite” isn’t someone who hates tech — they hated the EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE by capital through the use of tech. Too many of my peers are on the wrong side of that and a lot of us are watching and making notes and will remember.
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