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Cloth over-masks dramatically reduce glasses-fogging #clojure #masks #glasses

A blog post on our #Clojure usage in the Office of Digital Humanities.
https://orys.us/uB

The unsubscribe link for this recruiter email I received includes a UPN identifier of around 700 characters that gets stuck on the URL query args to match the unsubscriber to the email. In all seriousness, why wouldn't a regular 16-char UUID have done the trick? I thought the whole point of UUIDs is that they would be virtually impossible to collide?

@borkdude @pesterhazy This is super handy, Bookmarked! Thank you!

@folduptoys The deeper problem is having an education system geared at employment, based on suiting the businesses. This is not a healthy synergy. Maybe even parasitic, like the brain-mold of certain jungle ants.

Since I change layouts regularly, I write QWERTY with a Dvorak accent

Finally used fnil in #Clojure: to extend a function to support nil case without NPE-ing you! My use: a function that needs to handle strings, collections, or nil, and doesn't know which it will get.

Logic errors. Where would we be without them? "Why is that Javascript running too soon?" "Why is that SQL failing to count availability?" "Why is does my function incorrectly know when 'busy' and 'not busy'"?

@mastodonusercount how are users counted across instances?

I want to migrate my #bookwyrm #fediverse account from bookwyrm.social to a different instance of bookwyrm. How can it be done?

@omerida Is that akin to Composer?

I oversaw the creation of a #PHP #CRUD app for room #scheduling five years ago. It has been good, and has been in heavy use since then -- but suddenly has some issues, probably from #SQL logic -- and I desperately want a #REPL a la #Clojure.

@icedquinn Big agreement on this, though. Being the internal utility of a major organization + being open sourced can only help.

@icedquinn I believe DropBox dropped Zulip years ago, or at least Open Sourced them after ~18 months. I'm not sure whether Dropbox currently is financial sway on Zulip, but Dropbox did provide a burst of funding for the pre-release version back in 2018. https://zulip.com/history/

@icedquinn I highly recommend Zulip. Unlike other communication tools (Slack, Teams, Discord) it is based on a long-standing standard which it implements and enhances (email), and is also an excellent member of the Open Source community. I tried out their Docker version and was pretty pleased, then switched to their free hosted version so I didn't have to fiddle with Apache/Nginx/Docker stuff.