James Adam @james@lazyatom.social
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Kicking the tires on a private Mastodon instance. If the point is federation then... let's federate?
Twitter down? Federated networks FTW.
How many missing tests is a "LGTM 👍" worth?
You're reviewing the first PR from a new developer, and it's not going great, but then you realise all of the weird decisions are copied wholesale from some code written by the senior developer...
Back from two weeks vacation, and the build has been left broken the entire time. Woo!
James Adam
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RT @mudge@twitter.com
I’ve written up a comprehensive overview of the new function composition operators introduced in Ruby 2.6: “A Guide to Function Composition in Ruby”, https://www.ghostcassette.com/function-composition-in-ruby/
James Adam
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New here? Remember that Twitter is optimized to make you into passive consumers, by en(r/g)aging you with content that you don't choose yourself.
Here, that doesn't happen. But it also means you're responsible to find people to follow.
It will take some work.
If you're willing to put that in, you'll find a wide variety of friendly people that will be happy to have meaningful conversions and laugh and cry together with you.
Start by searching and looking at who other people follow.
My social media strategy is, basically: typing a joke out on Slack, or Twitter, laughing quietly to myself, then deleting it without posting it.
(Except this one).
Ah, the wonderful dance of recompiling everything that depended on an earlier version of `readline` because running `brew install <anything>` updated it and removed the older version...
James Adam
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I’m available for software development work. Looking for contract, max 4 days/week, mostly remote, not socially destructive. Ruby/Elixir/Scheme/anything else within reason. All leads gratefully received!
Watching the UK parliament voting is my sport 😬
Mastodon meta
Another year, another surprise when I get the "Your Flickr Pro renewal" email.
2,000,000 before the day is done? Seems certain.
Whether or not we ultimately leave or remain, we shouldn't be held hostage to this countdown by a failing government.
If you can't march on Saturday, please sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
Parliament's job is not to enable a minority extremist agenda. If the PM won't change course, the only sensible thing they CAN do is to stop the clock by revoking Article 50.
May has worked tirelessly to re-define what the referendum result means, under the smokescreen of "Brexit mean Brexit" and "the will of the people". Political tribalism and right-wing media enable that process.
The only real threat to democracy is the fostering of public ignorance, e.g. false choices like "my deal or no deal", turning the public against parliament with populist rhetoric, etc...
When any politician says something is a "threat to democracy", they are feeding a soundbite to the media in the hope it will be repeated and become an accepted truth.
James Adam
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Theresa May's actions today are the height of irresponsibility and have almost guaranteed a no-deal Brexit which will be a disaster for the UK.
The only realistic alternative now is to revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU, so please sign this petition:
