@j0 yea typst seems so cool though I will probably never have a use for it :)

@nelson @gnomon i guess so though the person who made it isn’t a programmer so probably wouldn’t describe it that way :)

@gnomon the drywall saw was great

@gnomon I just saw this at the perfect time because i’m going to a pumpkin carving party today

@kjv I have no idea, it's designed by the amazing https://melody.dev/

@bagder i’ve been thinking of trying to make a curl cheat sheet that covers some of the things that page talks about

@Anarcat things are good, mostly i’ve been spending all my time working on making some documentation contributions to Git which has been super interesting

I also really love this article "Why I Hate Advocacy" from @mjd https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html/ about how tribalism in programming makes it harder to communicate about our tools

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l find @grimalkina’s writing about “contest cultures” really interesting, it helps me understand better why at programming meetups I used to (embarrassingly) get into weird conversations about how i used a tiling window manager where the configuration file was a Haskell program.

I always felt […]

I haven’t blogged for a while and I forgot how internet commenters can get bizarrely angry about statements like “I got tired of managing my vim config so I decided to stop using vim for now”, as if it’s some kind of attack on vim (or on them??)

It makes me really appreciate @grimalkina’s work […]

@ddr oh to be clear my plan is to totally avoid referencing the concept of a DAG in any way, not to explain it with a metaphor :)