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wink posted Aug 18, 2023
Now if people could please stop linking to Twitter because half the links don't work anymore if you're not logged in. Thanks.
And if you're still on that platform without a good reason ("but muh followers and reach" is not one), be ashamed.
The time traveler had started with something so small it couldn’t possibly hurt anything: the spelling of the name of some fictional bears. The timeline held. Next, they tampered with some movies. Still no butterfly effect, so far so good. Now it was time to alter something important, something worthwhile. Something that would improve the world.
The traveler nervously approaches someone in the present after emerging from the machine. “Tell me… does json support comments?”
Happy birthday, #Debian
On this day in 1993, that's 30 years ago, Ian Murdock announced the imminent release of a new Linux distribution.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt
wink posted Aug 14, 2023
People who develop and/or love to play around with different fediverse servers: Do you put up multiple different new ones and test with your different test accounts or do you end up with tons of ghost profiles following your main account because you deleted the test instance before unfollowing? Asking for a friend.
All national anthems are technically country music.
wink posted Aug 11, 2023
I was today old when I learned that hunters in other countries wear orange.
wink posted Aug 8, 2023
After months of complete "meh, not motivated to code in my spare time" apparently I now have touched half a dozen personal projects in the last 2 weeks, even if just updating dependencies and fixing small bugs. Weird how this comes and goes in waves.
in jesus's time saints would pick a few kind of mid things to be the patron of, mostly because they didn't want to show off or felt shy. this resulted in a lot of guys being the patron saint of stuff like debtors, coroners and nosebleeds. this is pretty feeble but it does leave a lot of the cooler stuff unclaimed, allowing people nowadays to become the patron saint of stuff like lions, punching and ketamine