Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 40

@federicomena yeah, the issue that is frustrating me right now is how Go strings can treat them as a slice of characters or runes. It makes sense, and I understand why. But, sometimes it makes things feel a little bit obtuse.

String types are important for security and better handling of a common format. Plus they handle important standards like UTF-8.

But, some days I just want a pointer and to walk it down memory until its zero. No more. No less.

@paperdigits @mray that's my thoughts, and it doesn't conflict with anything in the MS portfolio like Atom does. So I don't see Jekyll as likely to get dropped.

@melissaaveryweir not looking good.

@mray I understand the conflict between Atom and VSCode, but why do you think Jekyll would be dropped?

@andrioid 3d print one!

My son and I 3d printed a die for who gets to sit where at the dining room table. It was a fun project.

@aparrish wow, I didn't notice they dropped OpenGL. And doing their own thing instead of Vulkan is... okay, pretty normal for Apple.

@tinker I haven't see anyone play with the settings there.

Another option I thought of is to unlist all the trailers, and then afterwards go back and boost the good ones?

The hard part is always ideas, but trying one. Here is a setting that I think would be useful for controlling how fast the outside world comes into a community. Thoughts?

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7736

@cassidyjames then how will people build software for it?

Sorry if I wasn't clear in the original reply, but just being sarcastic. Sometimes it seems HTML5 is all that gets developed today.

@tinker that reply makes me think you're just plain old burnt out. Which is fine. Not a criticism or a critique.

My advice would be: pay the bills; stay out of trouble; don't plan. Wait and heal.

What I get from that debate is that any type of tool that looks to promote posts or give activity on the network needs to take that into account. People need, admins need, to be able to specify how their instances interact with the network.

Some communities may actually be all marketing people, we shouldn't discount them. But others want a more conservative reach and to reduce the speed which new users move into the network.

Designing those knobs is the tricky part.

Reading what I can about the trending hashtags discussion and it strikes me that different folks have different expectations and uses of social networking. Some folks want their posts to push out into the full network while others want them more local.

It seems to me that this stems from what you expect will happen from a new random interaction. Some believe that it will increase their influence on the world. Others believe that it will increase the amount of harassment they face.

@cassidyjames which HTML5 engine do you think watches should use?

@david_ross oh, it has worked very well for me. You can see the setup for my website here if it helps:

https://gitlab.com/ted.gould/ted.gould.gitlab.io

Thinking it is about time Snapcraft.io supports something other than Github. Eh?

https://snapcraft.io/

#ubuntu #snaps

@danrabbit thoughts like that are going to get you banned from ever vising San Francisco.

@tinker I think the harder question comes down to "what do you love doing" then the direction and goals become easier.

@danrabbit it seems like things are moving to per-application themes at this point too. Not a bad thing. I really like the way The GIMP has built that into their experience.

@tinker I really love the Perot Museum as well!

Watch out for the sponsored oil drilling floor though. You can learn all of the benefits of fracking (minus additional earthquakes)