All great code started out as a shitty work-around that happened to work.

(I say this as someone with one of the more prestigious pedigrees in “not writing shit code”. All the theory I’ve learned helps, but at the end of the day the most important qualities of a line of code are: whether it got the job done, and whether is was obviously correct enough that the next developer left it alone.)

At this point I think there is no software dev topic that is somehow not devisive.

Now I want to try something:

“Boolean variables don’t suck.”

Wow. “peak shareholder value” is what I shall now call “multiple inheritance”, from now on.

Thanks. I hate it.

I consider myself a collector of programming anti-patterns, but I didn’t have this one yet.

I’m in. I wonder what the actual numbers on this are.

Am I gonna be out the thousands I’ve been promised by the “UBI can’t work” crowd, or is it going to be like seven cents (total, for my lifetime) because I have no real concept of what a billion dollars is compared to what I earn…

Tell me about “Why do you think you wanted to run ELIXA on a Times/Sinclair 2968?”.

This is the part that’s boggling my mind.

1. Stored guns in an oven.
2. Stored guns loaded.

But not content to stop there:

3. Stored loaded guns, inside an oven.

Oof. Even investors (who aren’t billionaires) are getting shafted by the current deal.

Stock performance has been utter shit, because the SEC (and equivalents) aren’t blocking illegal company mergers and acquisitions.

Not a bad plan, but it’s way easier to be born into an emerald mining fortune.

I setup a mail forward, and check the ‘to’ address to all incoming messages for about a year.

Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:

It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.

This is great.

That’s the joke/point in many comics and comic book movies, too.

Subversive ideas can’t always be communicated openly in children’s media.

I think the world is a better place for having difficult disruptive ideas voiced in children’s movies, even when they’re only allowed to come out of the mouth of the bad guys.

Lol. Two things can both be bad.

I am 90% sure I have never taken any mind-altering drugs.

Before I read this comic, I was 99% sure.

Don’t worry! Mullets never went away.

The public lost faith, but the truly committed have kept the tradition/style/lifestyle alive.

But I do hope it’s true about the 80s coming back. I’m gonna buy a Trapper Keeper and start saving up for a fresh Pog collection.

Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.

Yes!

It think it’s actually why I’m a Linux user, now.

(I like to claim it’s beside I’m very good at software and I understand sustainability principles.)

But…also…Windows took away my pretty desktop.

My carefully tuned, color coordinated, work of art, desktop environment just went away during a Windows upgrade.

And my journey to find a better OS began.

I’m not sure what to do.

On Mastodon, I used the search function to shotgun random topics that interest me, and then followed all the hashtags on the posts that came up.

Over time, I started replacing following hashtags with following my favorite users who I discovered through those hashtags.

Then I started discovering and following their favorite users through their boosts.

Now that my feed is pretty much where I want it I tend to click “hide boosts” on anyone new that I follow, to prevent their every random amusement from cluttering my feed.

The end result is fantastic, but it took awhile to get there.

stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

That’s awful.

Also, I guess they would think I’m hiding so much, considering the number of bloated awful services I’ve rejected.

and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Yep! But that’s only until they decide to enshitify, which they (Valve) will, because they (the humans making the correct choices today) will sell or retire.