The Agile-Industrial Complex is well-documented. You know what isn’t well-documented? Your software [sicpers.info]

It's all terrible, naturally, but this is what you get when you build on top of systems that assume every single resource will always be available. [rachelbythebay.com]

After extensive research and weighing the pros/cons of different collaboration options (covering tools like Discourse, Discord, Gitter, etc.), we at Apollo have happily landed on Spectrum. [link.medium.com]

When brainstorming, people produce fewer ideas when working in groups than when working alone. [nyti.ms]

because the 5G upgrade relies on fiber infrastructure, even 5G will be possibly limited to areas that already have FTTH – meaning, they already have a competitive landscape and, therefore, better service. The rest of us get monopolistic slow lanes. [eff.org]

Structured concurrency forum is live! [trio.discourse.group] Several language communities have independently arrived at the idea. Kotlin coroutines are all-in. What's going on with structured concurrency in your community?

@rafaelcosta Arachis crashes each time I tap the username in parent post’s text.

‪Siri: It’s table-flippin’ good.‬

Anyone who puts buttons on clothes for kids under 3 deserves a slap and reeducation in the magic of snaps and zippers.

Kinda really impressed that already in 1967 they had the “people time is more precious than computer time” mindset. Forward looking. I associate that with the 90s and the rise of Perl/Python/Ruby, not the 70s!

I wonder if JS’s decision to just support floating point numbers was for the same reason.

BASIC only had doubles cause a number should just be a number darn it. And didn’t require any spaces at first, because some people suck at typing, and why should the computer be judgey about that?

@33MHz Congratulations!

@33MHz Yay!

In Visionäre der Programmierung: Die Sprachen und ihre Schöpfer werden die Entwickler der bekanntesten Programmiersprachen der Welt interviewt. [learning.oreilly.com] Squee!

Kotlin 1.3’s experimental inline class feature allows creating type-safe, semantic newtype wrappers around values which are erased at runtime. [jakewharton.com]

@ericd @33MHz I actually had to use links in anger to configure ZNC the other day. Both Firefox and Chrome had sprouted blocking of unusual ports since I last poked at it. Links still does what I want without complaint - as long as I don’t want js or gfx.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. [programmingisterrible.com]

@mikehoss Closest thing that comes to mind: Reddit bought out Alien Blue app and gave all its paid users gold for like six years.

The trick with REST is that despite HTTP being stateless and simple, you can build complex, stateful services by threading the state invisibly between smaller messages—transferring a representation of state back and forth between client and server. [programmingisterrible.com]