TTK Ciar @ttk@octodon.social

Been kicking the tires on MeWe. It looks like a good alternative to Facebook. Stellar privacy policy (they make money with a classic freemium model, not ads or selling personal info). https://mewe.com

@craigmaloney - good article! :-) I'm faintly horrified, though, that people would see "keep it simple" and defensive programming as behavior of a "mediocre" programmer 😟

Explains a lot about some horrible coding patctices, though, if people are injecting needless complexity because "that's what rockstars do"

@franklinovitch or Pale Moon if you like the classic firefox experience with fewer bugs, memory leaks and security vulns :) :)

@schlink It's picky yep, but that's par for the course for statically typed languages (of which golang is imo one of the best!). For a more relaxed experience try ruby or perl :) or to a slightly less extent python or javascript (nodejs is surprisingly fast and low-memory-overhead).

@fayedaniels great hair!!!

@tcql Admittedly that doesn't address the need to check return values every single time, which is the harder part.

But even if the return value isn't checked, errors/warnings get logged, which is better than nothing!

@tcql It's programmers like you who made exception-throwing popular 😜 ;) ;) but seriously, being consistent about it is hard! I wrote a structured logging framework which helped me, because it let me log issues as return statements:
return $log->err('no config', $errno, $filename);
(Returns the tuple ("ERROR", "no config", $errno, $filename) after logging it)

@cybermeow
The evacuation centers are overflowing with donated food and goods. GoFundMe campaigns are popping up everywhere to get fire victims back on their feet, and contributions are rolling in. Neighbors are collectively rebuilding their homes to reduce costs. People don't know that they're practicing #anarchy but as long as they keep doing it that's fine :-)

@BGraham Hi :-) ikr? New social network is like a new house to fill. Still feels like empty rooms punctuated by chaos.

@MurphMom @mikebank Thanks for the pointer :-) the greyed-out + had escaped my notice.

@somethingeloquent Just on the merits of the licenses, MIT and BSD are more appealing to businesses, but they are also vulnerable to the embrace-and-extend attack (a la kerberos5 and Microsoft). The LGPL is sometimes a fair compromise, as it resists E-a-E without requiring full sharing of source code.

@somethingeloquent Arguably true. Choosing more free vs more featureful vs more robust is a complex dance, and we each need to find our own steps.

@Stonekettle yaay doggeh!

@mikebank - nice to meet a fellow minion :-) I'm stumbling through the mobile interface. There's got to be a way to follow @Stonekettle

Any of my pals around? Can't be the only one who came here following Jim Wright's call :-)
#jimwright
#facebook
#linux
#systemdsucks