Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

Curious about how the fediverse will respond to this one, they keep making new accounts on different instances, which is going to keep mods playing whackamole. I've thought this was a flaw in the federation model since I joined.

Person A: I want to troll a lot of people. *Creates account on largest instance*
*is banned*
*Creates account on second largest instance*
*is banned*
*loop until they are down on the 1565th largest instance*

> This tension between the simplicity of EQ and the usefulness of EQUAL has led to a great deal of confusion. This confusion has now lasted for 30 years, with additional confusion having been recently added by Common Lisp. Since neither EQ nor EQUAL has the desired semantics for the multiplicity of Common Lisp datatypes, Common Lisp added six more--EQL, EQUALP, =, CHAR=, STRING=, and STRING-EQUAL, yet these also lack the correct semantics. Scheme continues this confusion by offering the three predicates (eq?, eqv? and equal?) which are roughly equivalent to Common Lisp's EQ, EQL and EQUALP.

-- "Equal Rights for Functional Objects or, The More Things Change, The More They Are the Same", Henry G. Baker

home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Obj…

Petition:

That Google create a code editing environment and/or graphical tool library for Go called Ogle

Then that Google reimplement all of Google in Go/Ogle

Finally that Google create an extensive brand marketing campaign to distinguish their particular flavour of the language / library combination from the freely available open-source variant:

'Don't Just Go Go/Ogle, Go GOOGLE Go/Ogle'

"Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry" by Paul Ford https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry/

I consider myself a disillusioned techno-optimist, and this piece does a good job of capturing some of that heartbreak. Paul Ford is a great writer.

"A Conspiracy to Kill IE6" by Chris Zacharias http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

Great story.

Say what you will, but Sonic getting a live action movie that nobody asked for which seems doomed to be a train wreck of bad decisions from it's very inception is extraordinarily on-brand for the franchise.

Warning: If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you.

TIL "moral injury". This is way more useful than "burnout"

`The concept of moral injury was introduced [...] as stemming from the "betrayal of 'what's right' in a high-stakes situation by someone who holds power."`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury

this is a good overview of support tools for RPGs - https://breakoutcon.com/extras/safety-tools/

once I started playing with an x card I started wondering why more of my games didn't have one. then I realized a good chunk of my gaming friends had never heard of one.

The Metrics of Backpacks • Personal essay about the inhumanity of the tech industry https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/ #linkblog #tirefiretechemotiontootme

actually, the _connector_ is called USB-C. the standard is USB-C's Monster

Dear Ruby devs and game devs. I have a crazy announcement I want to share. Please boost.

Last week I released A Dark Room to the Nintendo Switch. Within the game, I also shipped a Ruby interpreter and a code editor as an Easter Egg.

*This Easter Egg effectively turns every consumer spec-ed Nintendo Switch into a Ruby Machine.*

1. Download A Dark Room from the US/EU.
2. Connect a USB keyboard and press the “~” key.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

#ruby #gamedev #nintendo