Binyamin Green @binyamin@fosstodon.org

Fun fact, I don't agree with every single one of your opinions (🤯). And I respect each of you.

I just received my first email ever from a job recruiter. It looks like a legit company. I'm so excited!

Honestly, I'm not sure how to reply. Advice welcome.

I played #minecraft last night, for the first time in a good 6 months. It was very refreshing, and I realized how much I miss being creative. I love the freedom that comes with imagination.

#ThoughtOfTheDay #ShowerThoughts

Questionnaire asks for "pronouns". Yes, nouns are awesome. Totally in favor of them.

#OpenSource #Opinion

Hot take: Documentation is essential if you want contributors. Without docs, your code might as well be proprietary, cause I can't read it.

Remember the Percy Jackson series? It's going to Disney+ as a TV series. There's a preliminary casting call out. If you know a 12 - 16 year old boy, send them this link: https://rickriordan.com/2021/04/preliminary-casting-call-for-percy-jackson/

#DisneyPlus

Had to share this...

"I get my first shot tomorrow and look forward to the free in-skull Alexa and all the additional channels."

#COVID19

https://twitter.com/MikeHughJass/status/1387606038791086085

React is no worse than many ancient, pre-HTML5 sites.

Semantic Markup
* SPA - full of divs
* Ancient - full of tables

Cause of low speed
* SPA - page requires a bunch of JS to render
* Ancient - html comes from some rinky-dink server that's nowhere near you

Accessibility
* SPA - too complicated, no fun
* Ancient - "Is that a thing yet?"

Microsloth Windoze (n.):
Hackerism(s) for ‘Microsoft Windows’. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
😂
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/Microsloth-Windows.html

Spent some time today exploring a mediawiki-clone which championed holocaust denial. I think the wikipedia article for "holocaust denial" has more unique sources than this website has combined.

Also, my US history course keeps emphasizing slavery and japanese-america internment camps. Funnily, they forgot to even mention the Holocaust.

I needed this today, and I thought you might also.

Hugs and kisses to all. I love you each, regardless of your opinions. You don't need to love me back.

Also, one of python's modules is called "antigravity". Try running `python -m antigravity`.

At the end of section 42 in vim's help manual, there's a reference to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". You can open it in vim with `:help 42`.

#TIL

Unicode 13 has a range reserved for Tengwar, Tolkien's elvish alphabet. Klingon, however, was considered "unsuitable for encoding".
https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/

I know having lots of systems is complicated. But if there are no systems, you're gonna severely limit your audience. Same with documentation. You can only edit what's already written.

Original: https://twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status/727875162410987521

#starwars #JavaScript

Also, this cookie banner. 🔥

I have a new favorite website. Nice illustrations. Content is... interesting. Oh, and maybe use a private browser tab.

#politics #bigbrother
https://pigeonsarentreal.co.uk/

Apparently, my history course forgot a bit of WW 2 history.

The Holocaust is the best-documented genocide in history. Here's a partial reading list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_and_documentation_for_the_Holocaust#References

Related, the whole "learn from the past" concept when teaching history sorta fails when you only mention your own achievements.