All languages suck, they have to, because design, any design, and not just language design, is about making trade-offs. wiki.theory.org/index.php/Your…
Ask people what they don't like about their programming language of choice. Tells you how critically they've looked at it and how much they've worked with it, because all languages suck, just in different ways. wiki.theory.org/index.php/Your…
Gerard Endenburg was close to touching upon #complexity in the book #Sociocracy - The organisation of decision-making:
New post: Plaidophile: Thoughts on quality engineering beesbuzz.biz/blog/5234-Thou…

Thoughts on quality engineering

Throughout my career, I’ve noticed that quality/test engineering is usually seen as a bottom-of-the-barrel discipline, something that someone should want to be promoted out of rather than someplace to end up. I find that really strange. It takes a lot of skill to look at other peoples' code and write tests to exercise it and determine correctness, and to do it well. And to have exacting standards about code quality and testability of the code in the first place. Nearly everywhere I’ve worked, though, test engineers have been incredibly junior and not particularly skilled. Which made it part of a self-fulfilling vicious cycle; test engineers do poor-quality work (and don’t seem to bring much value to the actual product development), so low-calibre programmers end up being put in those roles, and so then they continue to do poor-quality work. Test engineering seems to be treated as glorified QA in most places.
What If Consciousness Comes First?

Interesting ideas here and makes me think that maybe my own writing isn't so crazy.

I still think corporate open source is equivalent to the endorsement of its liberties the same way companies go all pride supportive during Pride Month or uber-Black during February. It’s not something they’ll follow through with because it’s not in their interest.

Okay, going to try this again then have dinner (super late). Going to try using Ubuntu under WSL2 over at https://twitch.tv/jackyalcine.

For real this time. #streaming # posted • 2 interactions

#streaming #livecoding
So, uh, how do I get my twitter reverse chronological timeline back? I'm seeing faves, and follow-this-person, and stuff from days ago, but nothing from the last few hours... #wtftwitter
Can't get over the astounding efficiency of the japanese lunchtime (+which is then channeled into food quality—this is a 650¥ (~5€) don!!) (at @Buta_Daigaku in 港区, 東京都) swarmapp.com/c/aJjfh1AEy9M
Working on a book cover tonight inspired from an illustration of a banyan tree drawn by Sue earlier today.
Okay, going to try this again then have dinner (super late). Going to try using Ubuntu under WSL2 over at twitch.tv/jackyalcine. For real this time. #streaming #livecoding (v2.jacky.wtf/post/f7041af8-…)

Okay, going to try this again then have dinner (super late). Going to try using Ubuntu under WSL2 over at https://twitch.tv/jackyalcine.

For real this time. #streaming # posted

#streaming #livecoding

Can you confirm that it’s not biodegradable plastic? Also, your timing to do “cleaning” with the protest BBQs of BBQ-while-Black is timely - almost targeted. There’s dozens of events that happen on the lake on weekends and I’ve seen equal amounts of trash. https://twitter.com/melissacolorado/status/1154233355774205952. Keep it a stack.

Bruh, lol. There’s no way people are using WSL 2 for actual work. I’ve been waiting for like ~30 minutes now.

This doesn’t make sense.

How long does it take people to install Ubuntu under WSL 2 on Windows? I’ve been waiting like 20 minutes now to no avail. I’m still waiting. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/d2c83950-…)

How long does it take people to install Ubuntu under WSL 2 on Windows? I’ve been waiting like 20 minutes now to no avail. I’m still waiting.

A stranger just prayed for my wrist. Never a dull time on the bus.

Okay wow, this is going to be fun, lol. If you want to watch a Linux user attempt to use WSL2 on a vanilla Windows 10 instance, pop onto https://twitch.tv/jackyalcine in like 8 minutes, lol.