Mastodawn

Paul Moore 1d ago

Heliograph 1d ago

having a grumpy morning

#caturday #QuantumTunneling #Schrödinger

Paul Moore 2d ago

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Taggart 2d ago

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

Paul Moore Feb 22

Natasha

🇪🇺Feb 22

How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#english #language

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

Paul Moore Jan 28

Andrew Nesbitt Jan 27

The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management: https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/27/the-c-shaped-hole-in-package-management.html

The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management

System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.

Andrew Nesbitt

Paul Moore Jan 17

I've been hovering around the edges of the Javascript world. But I think I need to go in deeper. I want to write small library. Not worried about distributing it (it'll end up copied into a webpage), but I want to do testing, executable scripts to exercise the code, etc. So I need stuff like pytest for Javascript, and a standalone runtime to execute .js files. I assume I need node.js. Where's a good place to learn just enough for "scripting" usage, not getting sucked into web stuff/frameworks?

Paul Moore Jan 2

I'm looking for some guidelines on how to write simple single-page webapps. No frameworks, node.js, or build steps, just HTML, CSS, Javascript.

Until now, I've been dumping everything in one handwritten .html file. But it's getting unwieldy, and I don't know how best to structure things for maintainability, while still avoiding the "flavour of the month" web frameworks.

Does anyone have any good pointers, before I start reinventing the wheel?

Paul Moore Dec 30

Random Geek Dec 30

Probably should unsubscribe from a chunk of professional devs in my feed eventually. Especially if I want to continue enjoying code.

Too much AI, which annoys for all the standard reasons. The big one right now: they seem at peace that pay-to-play development is a shut door for so many.

"Subscription's not much, and usage is pennies!"

"Not much" on dev pay, sure. How many subscriptions do you have for this flow anyways?

"But VS cost even more in the 1990s!"

Yes. That's why I got into Linux.

Paul Moore Dec 20