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1. josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 22:36:28 EST josef

   i wish i could annotate my code with more than just comments, when youve got more than a couple thousand lines of code it just ceases to be memorable, it all looks the same!!!!! i want to be able to paint things specific colors, arrange all the blocks of code on a big 2D canvas, draw shapes around them, etc.

   1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 22:37:31 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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      @jk hypercomments

      1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 22:38:24 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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         @jk fuck I totally should have gone with rich comment format

   2. aschmitz (aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2018 22:44:43 EST aschmitz

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      @jk ANSI escapes in your code, you say? 🤔

   3. Super Genius Stuff (mdm@mcnamarii.town)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2018 08:58:04 EST Super Genius Stuff

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      @jk You might like this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/

      It comes at the issue from a slightly different angle, but comes to the same conclusion -- how we code today, just rows and rows of text on a page, has to change, because the size of codebases we work with is quickly becoming too large for most people to visualize.