you just need to say the magic words…

The Venn diagram of Lemmy users and Outlook users is probably pretty close to two separate circles. I’m sure there’s some commonality, but probably not a lot.

I thought those were for only when shit is seriously wrong and execution can’t continue in the current state.

That’s how it starts. Nice and simple. Everyone understands.

Until

some resource was in a bad state

and you decide you want to recover from that situation, but you don’t want to refactor all your code.

Suddenly, catching exceptions and rerunning seems like a good idea. With that normalized, you wonder what else you can recover from.

Then you head down the rabbit hole of recovering from different things at different times with different types of exception.

Then it turns into confusing flow control.

The whole Result<ReturnValue,Error> thing from Rust is a nice alternative.

no

I remember getting these for games. They were awesome, but they never fit my keyboard.

I think ShareDrop does that.

I wouldn’t go back, if I were you.

The higher up I go, the more I ask why. And the more often “eh, I guess next release will be fine” is the answer.

I can’t decide if I’d rather be a nerd or a geek. Maybe I’m a neek? Or a gerd?

Woah woah WOAH WOAH.

So you’re saying software for the Artemis landers aren’t being built with the latest TypeScript compiler and running on a canary version of v8?!

I feel like modern compilers would turn their nose up at that shit. “Dead code? Ewww! No way I’m letting that into my syntax tree!”

The ads make it even worse. I totally get the Gemini folks for wanting to simplify. But I do enjoy me a good webapp.

What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let’s go back to just images and text

Seconded. I really enjoyed pre-video Internet.

You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page

Is parallax still a thing? I feel like ginormous hero images are more popular atm.

and if I do it’ll be in a private repo and I’ll never look at the source again because I’m a good programmer and a good programmer would never write that

Thanks mom

Sync filters by instance as well.

fun is the punchable face of keywords. I don’t know why, but I hate it.

Right on schedule

At least once every twenty years