Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

@chr
If this is your first moot
You _have_ to toot.

#introduction

I used to be a lot weirder. I'm a middle-aged geek, father to two boys, and I bang out code at #Google. I live near Boston now, but I grew up in central Mississippi.

I know the conlangs #Lojban and #TokiPona. I write hobby code in #Tcl and #CommonLisp.

I play a bunch of #music instruments, but none well enough to perform. I've been playing around with a DAW.

I started the cantos.social instance, trying to be a part of the small-scale Internet.

I try to be as kind as I can.

When we find out that we cannot love the creator of something we do love, we feel obligated to not share the creation.

However, if that creator is long dead, the same feelings don't necessarily apply. Who cares if some person three hundred years ago was terrible?

If copyright were returned back to 25 years (which seems hilariously short, but now I think is a little long), would it be okay to praise those works in the public domain? Would the author need to be dead and gone? What's the line?

My brain today: here's a perfect witty response to that mean person 20 years ago.

Thanks, brain.

I'm a rockstar programmer - I was fooling around with my friends having a good time, and then someone gives me a pile of money and a list of responsibilities.

I note that https://www.quicklisp.org correctly prioritizes local systems over remote ones. Good call, Xach!

Is there any post more dreary than a point-by-point rebuttal?

My (untested) idea: documentation-driven programming.

1) Document what your program should do, either in a docstring or user-facing doc.
2) Write tests that match that documentation.
3) Write code that is exercised by the tests.

The point is the documentation always comes first and is the final authority as to what is a "defect."

I feel like a thing that should be possible for #eink tablets running custom #Android builds is a change to scrollable areas, changing them from scrolling with scrollbars to paginated views with next/prev buttons. The feasibility of this obviously depends on how much the standard widget is used.

I have a new kitchen scale that has an mL "unit" which works as long as the density of the thing you're measuring is 1g/1mL and really who the fuck thought this a reasonable idea.

Europe colonization: All you different groups of people are now a country, and this is your capitol, and these are your leaders, and now we will do business.

Later: Oh no, why is there so much ethnic strife in all these countries??

I have to remind myself repeatedly that #Esperanto is made specifically to be easy and boring, tho. 😅

I'm really leaning hard into learning #Esperanto these days. While I like Lojban as a language more, I share a lot more attitudes in common with Esperantists. They seem like chill people to hang with. I'd like to make being an Esperantist #UU a thing.

Also, if humanity ever gets to travel the world again, the Esperanto couch-surfing network (la Pasporta Servo) seems like an awesome way to go about it.

#Cyberpunk is '80s #Steampunk in almost every way now. A mostly aesthetics-driven view of a future that never was from a past that felt immortal at the time.

Wanted: an AGPL alternative that isn't totally insane (like the AGPL), but still protects open projects from being consumed by exploitative businesses.

No, I don't know if that's possible. Maybe the insanity is the only way that works.