yes, yes, you don't actually stand at a standing desk as much as you think you will when you decide to get one. everybody knows this.
BUT
the real benefit of having one is being able to dial in the height of the desk when you're sitting to EXACTLY where you want it. just being able to do that has significantly reduced my mid-30's desk job back problems.
seen this in glasgow on maryhill road the other day, a #sinclair C5 chassis being used as the sign for a bicycle shop. #retro #zxspectrum
You, people, are great.
joyful coding:
just coding for one's own self. giving yourself permission to do what you find fascinating.
i try to enjoy the moment of flow i have while working through a problem. the anxieties of life have melted away, and a glittering prompt flickers in front of me, displaying a pleasing result.
BASIC really does what it was designed to do
it is certainly very easy to get going very quickly and achieve quite a bit with very little effort
i praise the creators of BASIC, kemeny and kurtz, for their vision of an accessible and yet fascinating approach to computing
something of the spirit of BASIC is not captured by the UNIX tradition. compared to the friendliness and openness of BASIC, UNIX revels in being arcane, with its greyboards--its initiates being a select few.
Many sad stories recently about long-running Twitter accounts being deleted by their owners due to Musk's disturbing behaviour. If one person/company owns an entire network, it eventually starts exploiting its users.
The Fediverse (which Mastodon is part of) breaks this cycle by being on many independent but connected servers, empowering the user:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers
It lets communities and people directly own the social networks they depend on.
Threads and now BlueSky have tried to co-opt this concept by "Fediwashing" their centralised corporate networks. If people fall for this, the cycle of exploitation will continue 😩
Just realised Scheme was made by someone named Guy L. Steele, and then someone came along and wrote an extension language that implements scheme called Guile with in classic gnu fashion is a backronym but also happens to sound like Guy's name. Guile is also a word meaning intelligent but deceitful so is a loose synonym for scheme. I love programmers...
#linguistics #programming #gnu #guile #guilescheme
Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
#links2gang would like to get in on this bluesky v mastodon argument
the left example is only possible thanks to @carcosa and their #brutaldon project, which makes mastodon usable in pretty much any browser out there.
thank you for your attention
disclaimer: #links2gang does not endorse mastodon or its subsidiaries. #links2gang is just happy to be able to use mastodon.
A rare copy for sale of "Lisp Style and Design" by Molly Miller and Eric Benson (Digital Press, 1990), a great book cited by Paul Graham in On Lisp that covers often overlooked topics. All the proceeds will be donated to the Medley Interlisp Project.
Which of the following would you say is more representative of your views? (asking for a politician)
Boost for reach, please.
#NZPol