Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 6

@aral @Shamar @bob @Tlacaelel

In the future, every phone will have its own server.
https://www.manyver.se/ is a proof of concept, at least.

Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo

Building composable abstractions - Eric Normand - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIUoaIvD20

was tearing my hair out yesterday for HOURS trying to diagnose a programming bug last evening. i went to sleep, woke up, had a cup of coffee, looked at it for literally 5 minutes, and fixed it immediately

if youre a newbie programmer, the best advice i can give you is just... go the fuck to sleep honestly

I just made little improvements on @Tusky app to make its Persian translation and RTL layout better.

Going to improve Mastalab @tom79 RTL layout 🏃♂️

@z428 @Vamp898 @Wolf480pl

The more tools you know, the easier each tool is to pick up, because there is a vast hidden overlap between all fields that only becomes noticeable when you master multiple. (This is less true of messy languages like C++ where most of the complexity is incidental -- stuff like memorizing accidental inconsistencies introduced by the language design committee forgetting previous features.)

"Neat URL" is an amazing Firefox extension which cleans up all the utm_shit parameters

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/

@Shamar @ekaitz_zarraga @enkiv2 @jcbrand

I think you're misunderstanding the term "Software Engineering".

It doesn't mean making good quality software. It means mass-producing software of predictable quality at predictable deadlines. The manglement turns down the quality knob until the cost-time tradeoff is acceptable, and then hits the "START" button.

What I'd like kinds to is Software DIY. Or, IOW, hacking.

#ZDF published an article for helping their readers to protect their #privacy on #Android by introducing them to @fdroidorg .

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/zehn-freundliche-android-apps-100.html

It’s the Soil Biology Stupid!

A look at recent soil science - exploring ways to improve soil health and the amazing, but still often overlooked **even by soil scientists**, impact soil micro-organisms play in regulating the planetary ecosystem.
https://lachefnet.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/its-the-soil-biology-stupid/

mastodon.social is like the Ellis Island of the fediverse

To be clear, *libraries* usually pay an honorarium to create a presentation. Often it’s corporations that expect creative work to be free.

@Shamar @Wolf480pl @jcbrand

But, at small scales, the effect of anything is less important. So, it's not that Small Computing is anti-quality or anti-craft, but that any failure of quality or craft in a Small Computing context is not multiplied by a million identical installations, so those failings are more acceptable.

In an attempt to simply the terminology in the fediverse, I propose we start referring to "instances" as "neighborhoods". Here's a short pitch:

Each neighborhood:
* Has its own set of rules.
* Has its own "guard" (sysadmin) that makes sure there are no incidents.
* Is usually (but not always) focused on a common theme.

You can send an update to:
1. A specific person.
2. Your own neighborhood.
3. Entire network.

IMO this proposal would make things about 30% easier to understand for newcomers.

@enkiv2
>Personal software [...] should not scale

IMO there's two sides to scalability.
Most of the business talk focuses only on one side: upward scalability.

More resources -> can more load.

But there's the other side, which is often overlooked: downward scalability:

Less load -> less resources.

Some people cal it lightweightness.
And IMO it is very important for personal software to scale down well, so that you can run it eg. on a raspi.