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I agree with the spirit of this piece, but I think Wordle is a weird choice to try to highlight the point. I enjoy Wordle, but I'm certainly not going to die without it. Not to downplay Wardle, but, as xeromal pointed out, it's pretty easy to crank out a clone. Lots of people already have. If NYT paywalls it, I'll either stop playing or find or create a clone.

I used to use Fira Code. Then I played this font game and I switched to JetBrains Mono.

https://www.codingfont.com/

This font ships with a ligature-less version.

Tangential thought: if you're using a passphrase you're not going to ever type manually, for example something you're going to generate once and stick in a secret management system, why not build the passphrase using all possible UTF-8 characters as your corpus? Seems like restricting yourself to ASCII characters is just giving an advantage to those attempting to brute force the passphrase.

That's the exact sentence that made me give up on this... blog entry? Whatever this thing is?

Me, too. And I even want to quit my job. But this did not inspire me to do so.

For people like me who don't have time to watch the talk, what's the answer to the question posed on the blog post? "Why aren’t we using the Language Server Protocol (LSP) or Language Server Index Format (LSIF)?"

They'll get a rude awakening and realize OP is being nice and that's not standard operating procedure.

I love it. Honestly, it could be less professional.

It's a personal choice. I respect their choice.

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

-- Abraham Lincoln

  -- Michael Scott

Meh. I am a tech people, and I'd gladly go to prison if all the other tech people had to go, too.

I like this idea a lot, but I don't trust it to stick around. Mozilla is going to pull a Google and this will be a very painful thing to undo.

I've also got bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=86425

Aw, they couldn't stuff one more in there to get a power of two? (I know it doesn't really matter for qubits, but still.)

The real story here is not about the code.

When it's your own personal project and you can be your own little tyrant, do whatever you want. Be as "clean" as you need to be. But this was at work, and Dan was being a bad coworker.

He snuck in a change in the middle of the night over a coworker's code. This code wasn't his responsibility. He didn't leave his thoughts on a PR where others could discuss it. He overwrote someone else's code without asking. There was no opportunity for discussion or collaboration. Dan's actions said he's right and his coworker is wrong. They said he doesn't trust his coworkers. They said he knows best. They said if you want something done right around here you have to do it yourself. Dan was not being a team player. This story is less about code and more about team dynamics.

I hope Dan knows this and he was just trying to sneak the message past people who don't take social cues as easily as others. I hope his boss didn't just tell him to revert his change. I hope his boss told him why.

EDIT: I just reread the article and I think Dan missed the point. This wasn't about the code, as I said. But Dan really does seem to think it's about the code.

Not quite "bans". They could face fines, which means it's legal for a price.

What is a computer if not a very fancy programmable calculator?

length ≠ effort

Counterpoint: Cunningham's Law

There's gotta be some way to programmatically determine it, right? It may not be portable. It may require some system calls or something, but there's gotta be a way, right?

That's the right mentality. Thank you!

Treat it as a hobby, not a means to a payday. It's your free time. If you're not having fun, why do it?

I remember that! I loved using an avatar that looked like a bush and then hiding in plain sight.

I think they know how much money they've sunk into their Oculus property and they want to see more return on that investment.

You're preaching to the choir. This is why I'd always rather read an article or a book than watch a video if I'm trying to learn something. I'll watch TV or a movie if I'm only aiming to be entertained. But for something I want to try to retain or if I'm trying to get business done, text wins for me.

If the web was created today, it would not be a set of open protocols, markup languages, etc. It would be a product. That's the world we live in, so that's why journalists and companies chase that vision.

There's obviously no way to be sure, but the only reason the web was created how it was is because it was a bunch of academics, nerds, and hobbyists who saw a need and filled it. There was no perceived money in it from the private sector's point of view. Now that there's no question that there's money to be made, it's like blood in the water. And the capitalist sharks can smell it.

An open standard that's given away for free isn't attractive to the people who have the means to create it.

I use Github Actions mostly for automatically publishing my website when I change its content. But I haven't fully set up my build pipeline to my liking. And getting logs and stuff when the pipeline goes sideways isn't very easy right now with Github Actions. If I hosted my own running, at least I could poke around my build environment to see why it failed until I have it running reliably enough to let the cloud handle it.

That's a long-winded way to say: debugging.

I'm glad it's sold out. I was tempted to buy it even though I know I'd screw it up doing the bending and separating myself. I'm so bad at DIY. I know to buy extras and backups for everything because of how often I screw stuff up.

Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware.

I like the idea of not having to worry about hardware when I'm more interested in software. But there's a certain amount of control that's given up when you relinquish ownership of the hardware. I don't like the idea of paying for things in a service model.

I'm approaching this from a personal perspective, not a business perspective. I'm completely comfortable with reducing my business's risk and liability by buying into hardware as a service. But I'm not as inclined to trust it for personal computing.