Notices by Michael Smith (spinda@tiny.tilde.website)

@datagrok An "algorithmic timeline" like Twitter is pushing might help filter the firehose a bit, but I can't trust some piece of software to determine what's worth reading for me, so the anxiety of "missing out" would still be there. The most effective way to tackle this I've found is to just let go and disconnect from sources of input that aren't good for me. I've never ended up regretting an aggressive pruning of my following list.

@datagrok I've felt this tension in many forms, between Twitter, Mastodon, RSS feeds, or IRC channels. I'll find, say, a person posting things that interest me, or who created something I like, and subscribe to them. Then their posting rate overwhelms my rate of information intake, degrading my experience, but I feel bad about unsubscribing.

@grainloom The user is invited to write their own source-to-source compiler for any other extraneous features they may require. Only thusly may we achieve Web Scale!

<insert quote about the beauty of minimalism>

@grainloom

> btw there won't be a "function" declaration, loading functions from source will be async too

JavaScript engines already *parse* individual functions asynchronously, because modern computing is piles of hacks on hacks, wheeee.