“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

• the cool kids use Sourcehut
• I use Codeberg

GitHub has managed to conflate “git” and “GitHub” in a lot of people’s minds (including people who should know better) – git may be decentralized, but to people who think git is GitHub, it’s meaningless

mind share – GitHub is the Coca-Cola of git, Codeberg and SourceHut are the RC Colas – people are already on GitHub, their projects are already on GitHub, their workflows are already on GitHub, their friends are already on GitHub, their co-workers are already on GitHub, and on and on …

it’s the same issue with Facebook – everyone knows Facebook is shit, but leaving Facebook means convincing your friends and family to leave Facebook, and convincing their friends and family to leave Facebook … outside of a global event like a pandemic, a nigh impossible task …

hobnibble ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

“If I had to suffer, then so should you.”

Hacker Purity Test from 1989

unless you made a lace card

if you don’t like Lisp, you can use Forth

Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

• objects and methods are just structs and procedures
• encapsulation is just modular programming

(fixed – Firefox keeps trying to “autocorrect” it to a secure connection)

Jargon File, “A Story About Magic”

I think I was the reverse, I found it easier wrapping my mind around Scheme than C …

the old languages still have their fans – and COBOL, Fortran, Ada, and Lisp are still holding strong in their respective niches

Ada sitting at #22

EDIT: COBOL community adopting a dinosaur for the language’s logo

How to Bullet Journal – a quick intro by the original creator (biggest problem is that it’s been turned into a craft project by Instagrammers, more weight put on picking out the right washi tape than keeping track of tasks)

I’ve heard of GnuCash but I have no experience or knowledge of it

• open source, multi-platform
• aimed at individuals and small business
• Features
• looks like it can direct connect to your bank (but a Reddit post indicates might not be the most intuitive)

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EDIT: only came across it because I was looking at the Guile language and GnuCash is listed as using Guile

EDIT 2: unwarranted advice – for memory and ADHD, take a look at the original bullet journaling (not the Instagram/TikTok fad it’s turned into)

keep reading that phrase as “unintended updates” …

it’s just return a and b or c is the closest Lua has to a ternary operator, but yes, for the above you could shorten it to return a or b (“or returns the first argument if true, otherwise second argument is returned”)

return a and a or b → return a or b

correction from @murtaza64