Notices by Conor Nash (conornash@mastodon.social), page 2

Windows 95

"maybe the newest git version will have a fix"
-- ancient Fool's Proverb of software development

our official announcement is up! https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone

The press conference starts in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w

Big format change going forward.

On #StPatricksDay we remember the #women who played an important role in #Ireland's Independence War.
In 1914, the primary female Nationalist group that would fight in the Independence #War, Cumann na mBan, was launched as an affiliate of the Irish Volunteers. #WomensHistoryMonth

Emulating a #gameboy using -- no kidding -- #emacs https://hackaday.com/2019/03/06/the-strangest-gameboy-emulator-weve-seen-yet/

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1103218715057901568

👁🐝M #retrocomputing

One: Google app iconography is hot garbage these days. This flat color blob on white is boring and makes it actively harder to find apps.

Two: spot the single non-Google app in the sea of Google apps. It's like they want to be acquired.

Martin Fowler - Team #emacs - https://martinfowler.com/articles/emacs-nxml-completion.html

If you have submitted patches (or translations) to Mastodon before and they've become part of the software, you can go here:

https://opencollective.com/mastodon/expenses/new

And submit an invoice for your work 💰

It’s an Albany expression

You: I think the coffee maker is broken.
Me: Boost the confinement beam.
You: What? That's not...
Me: Transfer auxiliary power to shields.
You: You can't just say random-
Me: Run a level three diagnostic on the deflector array.
You: (sobbing) Stop...
Me: Make it so.

"I don’t see how anyone could... do any kind of meaningful work by replying to every email in their inbox all the time so that it’s always empty"

1) You don't have to reply to everything. Triage, including deleting liberally.
2) Your Inbox is not supposed to be empty all the time. That's an impossible goal.
3) IZ is about managing your email so you can *get out of your Inbox* and do other work.

#Cryptography tip: If you ever find yourself solving substitution ciphers: #Emacs got you covered. Open the buffer, then M-x decipher. It will open in a special view with the alphabet and pairs of cipher/plain text. Press a lowercase letter to insert a guess for a letter, the uppercase letters are for commands such as D for digraphs.

Mastodon is just 2000 social networks in a trenchcoat