Notices by James Smith 💾 (floppy@mastodon.me.uk)

5 million! 🎉

UK remainers: Sign this petition to revoke Article 50, because at this point we need to do *everything* we can to stop this shambles, and though they're usually ignored, it's worth a few seconds. Also it's at over 600k sigs and climbing fast - maybe it won't be so easy to ignore this time:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

"now more than ever, we also need ... stories that inspire hope."

Oh god yes, we need more utopias to dream of and work towards.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18055980/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video

I came here to chew bubblegum and kill scope creep and I'm all out of - oh, I'll just do this other thing while I'm here, wait a second...

@noeldemartin https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ is a good read - given all that I use a single field for name, and ask for other specific (e.g. "how should we address you") if necessary.

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In the browser, the mighty browser, the runtime sleeps tonight

Anyone here going to Electromagnetic Field (https://www.emfcamp.org/)? Apart from @russss, that is? Maybe we should have a tootup.

Me IRL

RT @deportablediz@twitter.com: A lot of people are angry at the idea of "anti-homeless architecture" such as spikes on benches, window ledges, underpasses etc.

But there's a form of anti-homeless architecture I recommend and I hope it catches on. It involves a roof, plumbing, electricity, beds and heating.

What would you consider the first "proper" modern source code package management system? @ me for "other"