They have microphones. They don’t have cameras.

I consciously drop them when I write single sentences. It is a personal preference.

I still take pride in the written word

If, however, there was a $20/month subscription service which would let me watch new releases at home, I would subscribe.

I wish there was a way to pay a one time fee (per release) to watch new releases as much as I want forever. Without downloading a damn app for each one.

SimpleX Chat

I was curious. I’m even more curious how this thing works without user identifiers.

Edit: The Play listing makes things clearer

My favorite joke from the finale

What would scare me the most is the bad tooling. I do rely on my tools to search for references, etc. I wonder if it’s even possible to write a good analyzer for COBOL. Verbose operators and literals wouldn’t scare me at all.

Still would jump at the chance. It would have to be remote and I would strongly prefer being the only engineer touching the code.

I am a professional software engineer. My favorite ecosystem is the Java one which may explain some things.

Why is verbosity such a bad thing? Especially in the context of maintaining something someone else wrote? I would much rather maintain old Java than say, old Perl. I want big long names. So I have a better idea of what they were for! I can pretty much read any line of Java from anywhere and have a very good idea what it’s actually doing.

Sure, it’s more of a pain to type but as a kid one of the best investments I made in myself was to take a typing class. I did this way before I discovered my passion for programming. I can type fast. And I can make my editors type boilerplate for me.

Edit: Give me the time to learn it (I’m confident I can learn it fast) and the ability to work remotely and I would jump at the chance. I can do the fun programming (in Java) in my spare time.

Pay me to do it remotely and I’ll jump at the chance

I absolutely loved it

That was the funniest bit for me. I loved this episode.

Desktop: Debian testing (Linux) Mobile: The Pixel flavor of Android

I’m simply more comfortable in Linux. It is a hacker’s OS. I feel like I have full control over it and it stays out of the way. I find GNOME pretty polished and cohesive. It has come a long way.

On a fateful day years and years ago I sat and deliberated between Android and iOS. I picked Android because it works much better with Linux. I have stuck with it ever since.

I love Java! And I love that video.

Element on the web and Element X on Android

I love Java!

Designing custom types are one of my favorite things about programming

Let’s say I was on a giant Mastodon instance. And they defederated. At that point, would I be able to easily migrate to a smaller one? Or would I have to start up from scratch on the smaller instance?

How so? Folks who care about decentralization can use the menu, no? A common theme in the comments is that most users do not care about decentralization and don’t want to have to pick a server. All that scares them away to centralized platforms like Bluesky and Threads. Even a big centralized fediverse server is better than yet another walled garden they can’t easily migrate off of.

Techies who are comfortable with federation can use the menu, no? The vast, vast majority of people don’t and I do believe things should be as frictionless for them as possible. Even a big fediverse server is better than yet another walled garden they can’t easily migrate off of.

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