Bullet points and parentheticals

The article did a shit job of linking to it, but here’s the actual verbatim

I honestly thought your first photo was a still life study in oil paint.

It’s the occasional stabby thing that gets me, though.

It’s that banality of evil thing

Served as “flat files” - filesystem, object store, what have you. No server logic generating content, just passing around of strings and binary data. Files are the representation are the source of truth. Counter to a web app, where the content response is ephemeral and the “source of truth” is scattered across a writeable DB and recombinated (potentially) on every request.

Interesting question though, I (a web dev) just take the term for granted.

Survivorship bias, I think

Frankly, I’d kill for the Dems to pour money and resources into down ballot races.

Black mirror

Now do puhs

Works great for db:seed, too

If you’re in RoR land, there’s always the Faker gem to get you started. Or keep it simple - find lists of names on Wikipedia or something, shuffle and combine.

Honestly, along those lines, I don’t think we (Americans) will get anything until we get rid of the electoral college and the Senate.

I feel a repressed memory or two stirring 😐

Speaking of sci fi, Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 does a really good job of incorporating the existential dread and lurking horror of weaponized orbital mechanics.

I’ve seen some active instances die due to admin neglect (not paying the bills, for instance), and I’ve wondered how those communities have fared since, since they’d have to start over elsewhere, and without all the content and history from their origin server. Same goes with user accounts too.

It’s like a weaponized grade of whatever they made CSS in JS out of

Just read a thing about how persistent usernames may work better than actual ID. Of course, I don’t have a link, and I’m not finding anything on Google right now, but as someone who uses the same handle across multiple services, which makes my activity traceable, but not necessarily to my real identity, I definitely think there’s something to that.

I would love to see the test suite

Slowly starting to see usb ports become more common on wall outlets. The spec currently maxes usb c to 5 amps, but, maybe some day…