(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@social.cleverlibre.org

Heres something to think about. I don't have much patience for artificial scarcity , but believe that immutability is usually a good thing
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RT @raganwald
Hackers, 1981:

"We are building a post-scarcity world with open source. Just watch us!"

Hackers, 2021:

"We are restoring scarcity with immutable ledgers. Just watch us!"
https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/1476343520709562372

I am gradually making a registry of great and horrible web apps. Slack makes a case in point: I use their desktop webapp in browser practically all day every day. On mobile, though, they literally don't even try to make a web app mobile-friendly: it actively redirects you to the app store at every attempt. Unacceptable, @slack!

Disney has a long history of being an enemy of content freedom, most notably how they twisted and manipulated copyright law to something distincly NOT in public interest, for their own pocketbooks. Disney+ is the climax of that same ignoble mission so far. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/idad-2021-counteracting-disneys-attack-culture

I'm always interested in web frameworks, especially #lisp ones. Here is Artanis, GNU Guile. Reagent it isn't, but it's a start https://web-artanis.com/about.html

Our primary system admin is out for holiday, so little ol' me is attempting to get my Apache to reverse proxy to a docker container and keep its SSL setup, and now I am reading about SSL Stapling #TIL #IsThisFullStackP

Time I once again asked the question, "this year what are the differences between #MySQL and #Postgres?" Extensibility is a huge one (so you can program addons to Postgres but not MySQL). and also this thing called Materialized Views. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/rules-materializedviews.html

It looks like you can take snapshots of the data at a certain point. A full-blown XTDB it's not, but that could be useful.

To whom it may concern: when your workflow is `pwgen -cny 25 -> docker-compose.yml -> settings.py` you will get passwords that cause the process to fail spectacularly. Quotes, forward slashes, all the things it likes to choke on.

I had no idea . That is awesome
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RT @mickeynp
Everyone knows about M-x tetris in #emacs -- but have you ever heard of M-x dunnet? It's an old-school text adventure game.
https://twitter.com/mickeynp/status/1472272242763567111

I'm in the process of making a Zulip install for work right now, replacing Slack in our organization after Mattermost has been unreliable Looking forward to it!
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RT @xtdb_com
We use @zulip for realtime chat (at https://juxt-oss.zulipchat.com) and love it. This summary by @tabbott3 explains Zulip's sustainable, open source approach to longevity and sustainability.

https://blog.zulip.com/2021/12/17/why-zulip-will-stand-the-test-of-time/
https://twitter.com/xtdb_com/status/1471932674864463878

The more I do webdev, the more I am amazed that WordPress is able to just start firing emails at first install. I do no setup; it just goes. So either all of my system admins are secretly taking care of all this for me, or PHP has some privileges the with local mail server.

A nice look from @_bsless at making clojure deliberately fast using transducers and non-abstractions. https://bsless.github.io/fast-and-elegant-clojure/