Notices by TeMPOraL (temporal@mastodon.technology)

@tindall one of the things that annoy me the most about how software is done nowadays - it's optimized for first impression of a new user. Few vendors seem to care about discoverability or people who want to use the software for more than 30 seconds.

End-user documentation is a must for a piece of software to be called good.

(Related: reading manuals fell out of fashion too, which is a shame. You can learn a lot if you read a manual cover to cover; this saves time over reflexive visits to StackOverflow.)

Holy shit did #JavaScript / #React people just discover conditions and restarts from #CommonLisp! Another secret power is out!

Two things:

1) It's not true you "can't touch this"; it's not theoretical, it's been a part of Common Lisp for the past three decades and it works just fine!

2) I'm not surprised this is an active area of theoretical work, but I am surprised by the implication that this area is considered new, or that they don't realize an implementation already exists.

https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/