Why mastodon instead of plain ol' blogging?

For social connections, right?

But isn't that why we have forums?

Why the addiction to short-form content? In large quantity of them at that.

Why the urgency to know what others are thinking?

#BringBackBlogging

Sadly, this will make Facebook even more popular

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16969189

(Not that I'm signing up)

#HumanNature

Joke of the day. Some Elm folks think they are at "the state of the art" on functional web development https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/8fse4k/scientific_papers_on_elm/

#Elm #Haskell #Reflex

`XXX` in code comments. Do you use it?

TIL that it has a bad connotation in America.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1452934

Recent realization: don't force yourself to do hobbies. Don't feel responsible to do it. It takes the fun out of it. Motivation should be intrinsic, and not moral.

This automatically means one lets go of control over how one spends their spare time, and let each circumstance and situation dictate what happens.

I'm beginning to think that starting small hobby projects versus large and complex ones would be more sensible in that sense (unless I had the money to treat all time as spare time) ...

Tried eating normally (plenty of carbohydrates, plants, though restricted sugar and diary) this celebratory weekend.

Happy to report that this time I no longer found it appealing (with the exception of a fresh croissant with morning coffee lol); zerocarb is way easier, simpler and preferable. And I have lots and lots of energy with this way of eating.

#meatheals [1]

[1] http://meatheals.com/

I was let down by Haskell Programming From First Principles (a waste of ~$50 USD). Too verbose.

So I'm not too confident about The Joy of Haskell.

I think going for an informative book, as opposed to any work of art (and I've never been big on 'art' in general) would be a sensible choice: https://intermediatehaskell.com/