Talking with clients & potential clients is always tricky. The last thing I want to do is offend someone, but there are some things I wish I could say up front and with frankness. As the saying goes, sometimes the truth hurts, so in the interest of politeness these messages are often skipped or glossed over when in reality the importance of these deserve the clarity that forthrightness provides. Not inspired by any one specifically but rather everyone generally, here are 10 blunt things I wish I could tell clients.

Babashka is a Clojure scripting runtime that is a powerful, delightful alternative to the shell scripts you’re used to. This comprehensive tutorial will teach you:

What babashka is, what it does, how it works, and how it can fit into your workflow How to write babashka scripts How to organize your babashka projects What pods are, and how they provide a native Clojure interface for external programs How to use tasks to create interfaces similar to make or npm

The point is, we’re not trying to solve a technical problem here, we’re trying to solve a social problem. We don’t want people to do certain irritating and dangerous things with data scraped off the Fediverse. So, when there are things that people can do but shouldn’t, what tools do we usually apply? Hmm… I guess when I said “social” I meant “legal”. 

Not brilliant, but includes useful graphics if audience segmentation is your thing (not mine)

The Odyssey YouTube channel is a trove of documentaries about the ancient world, “from the dawn of Mesopotamia to the fal

Howl is the next game from The Lion’s Song devs, and it’s a fiendishly clever turn-based tactics game.

Low Maintenance Self-Hosted macOS CI Cilicon is a macOS App that leverages Apple’s Virtualization Framework to create, provision and run ephemeral virtual machines with minimal setup or maintenance…

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.