liten app

Hot take on jj vs. git: I'm not going to replace a stable and established community-managed tool originally made by Torvalds with some big tech-shit coming out of Google. I'm not even going to consider doing that.

"The Technical Irrational"

"Perhaps most strikingly, engineers who come forward with effective analyses of risk or effective design proposals are sidelined and refused support until they can express their concerns in quantifiable, rational terms. In other words, Technical culture will sacrifice even its efficacy and business goals to protect its narrative."

https://blog.joinmeonmy.quest/the-technical-irrational/

Space exploration is cool and all, but I can’t help but feel that this is also PR serving a government that doesn’t deserve to be served. Let me know when it’s a democratic federation going where no democratic federation has gone before and not a dictatorship looking for new opportunities to dominate and exploit

There is some serious fucking around that's going on, and we're all about to find out. :/

https://eli.li/the-seed-beneath-the-snow

"The Seed Beneath the Snow"
by https://tenforward.social/@eli_oat

"Jimmy asks us to choose to “truly care about something.” I’d push it one step further: choose to truly care about each other."

edit: Added fedi link and literal quotes around the quote since not all clients render the quote as a quote. If that makes sense.

One question that has been on my mind since I forked Zed is why it's such a huge project. It's a text editor. What does all that code really do?

I still don't know if I understand why. I have looked at a fraction of the code at this point. What does it all do? Fuck if I know. But here, take a look at this for example...

Python support in Gram (forked from Zed) is mainly provided by python.rs, a single file containing 2865 lines of code (as of today). One part of that code is a function which lists virtual environments available to the editor. The code to actually discover which venvs are available is handled by a dependency (the PET library from Microsoft) but sorting the venvs in order of importance is handled here:

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/src/commit/b0f5dd51829e2b63bd6ca2d4b39a8313c55522ae/crates/languages/src/python.rs#L1184

It's a single call to the method sort_by on a variable confusingly named toolchains, containing a list of virtual environments. I have been trying to make sense of it for a while. Like, one sort criteria is filesystem distance, which kind of makes sense. Wouldn't it make sense to primarily sort by filesystem distance, and a second sort by Python version? Instead this is primarily sorting alphabetically by executable name, it's looking at multiple environment variables for priority, it's sorting alphabetically based on conda prefix(?)...

Maybe I'm missing something, maybe I am not galaxy-brained enough to sort virtual environments with the big fellas. But I then compare this to helix which has no special handling for virtual environments, you just configure the LSP to use the venv you want to use, and I feel like maybe it didn't have to be this complicated?

html -> spa -> post-framework -> framework-core -> component sludge -> progressive tag jazz with post-framework influences -> classical html revival -> webfunk

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116357637405879003

John Carmack was the main inspiration I had growing up and learning to program. I printed DOOM source code which I kept in a folder and read like a book when it was released in 1997. I also remember listening to Burzum while playing DOOM back then so eh, maybe don't take my inspirations as a 16 year old as recommendations for whom to follow. Fuck off, nazi Carmack.

https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/116355757033992032

https://youtu.be/5G3-870AIKc These new songs are so fucking good, I need to see them live

Some fantastic new albums released this week:

• Vol. II by Angine de Poitrine https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

• Blessings and Curses by Non Est Deus https://noisebringer-records.bandcamp.com/album/blessings-and-curses

nvim-treesitter archived as maintainer burnt out dealing with demanding users: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627#discussioncomment-16440673

Thank you but there are way too many demonstrations of how easy it is already. Too damn many

Things Microsoft bought using money:

• Github
• Linkedin
• NPM

Things Microsoft can't buy using money:

• Tact
• Respect
• Sense
• Style
• Vision

Tim

They are ads, Tim

Stop saying ”tips”, Tim

Thanks for making the world worse, Tim

Fuck off, Tim

Here’s a ”product tip” for you, Microsoft: fuck ooooffff

Latest commit in Caddy appears to be vibe-coded.
Looks trivial? But also, I don't know if it's right and the author doesn't either.

"Nice, thanks Francis and Francis' bot" :/

Feels like we are only days away from a Silicon Valley nazi, desperately looking for a company name from the Lord of the Rings that isn't taken, naming his murder robot startup Fatty Bolger. How fortunate that Stephen Colbert is on the case, making up new characters as we speak. Is this the real reason why big money seems so desperate for new Tolkien content?