hometown 4.5.11+hometown-1.2.1Made in Iowa. Nearly 100% biodegradable. PL, concurrency, distributed computing, and all that. Free as in interpretable. Informal in various ways. Associating with professors at UC Santa Cruz.
Some news. After seeing this blog post, I tracked down the author, Josh Miller, to ask him to come give an invited talk at the Haskell Symposium about enterprise Haskell at H-E-B. And he said yes!
https://icfp26.sigplan.org/details/haskellsymp-2026-papers-talks/17/Enterprise-Haskell-at-H-E-B
Join us at 4pm Indianapolis time on Friday, August 28, and learn how the biggest (and best) grocery chain in Texas is migrating from COBOL to Haskell 🤠
to give you an idea of how bad I am at Spanish, and how ill prepared I am, language-wise, for our trip to Spain in two days, I just misread "mejores" (from an email from Iberia Airlines) as "mujeres", which would make this "Women are highly in demand", and was like, excuse me, WHAT did you just say about me
Today I decided that to complete my laptop-docking desk setup (@lindsey@recurse.social), I also needed a mouse. So @alexr@tilde.zone unearthed an old wired mouse from his bin of miscellaneous cables, and it was grody and sticky, but I cleaned it all up with some rubbing alcohol and it works great. Is this...permacomputing?
does anyone know of any computer programs that are good? so far on my list I have ffmpeg, pandoc, and ImageMagick
Sylvia excitedly reported that her third-grade class was learning about "telegraphics". After asking many questions, I figured out that she meant tessellations.
in a meeting today, I needed to show people a cross-branch diff, and GitHub was so unresponsive that it was faster to first remember the relevant git commands and then type them in than it was to wait for GitHub to load the page.
🙅♀️ local-first software for asshole longtermist reasons
🙆♀️ local-first software for solving your immediate problems
For like 15 years, this has been kicking around @alexr@tilde.zone's and my home. I *think* it's a @paul_stansifer@types.pl joint, but I don't remember for sure. I have always loved it.
@regehr @dan anyway, I just showed sl to Sylvia (I showed her ls first, and I had to explain what a "directory" was), and, well: https://tilde.zone/@alexr/116525723722543532
@lzg@mastodon.social @palvaro@discuss.systems @rg9119@mathstodon.xyz When I was in high school, one of my teachers, a woman, gave us the advice to not look too closely at a partner's feet, because it might sully an otherwise good partnership. That advice has not steered me wrong
maybe the Canvas hackers will go after Technolutions next. you *know* that shit is horrifyingly insecure
