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This is beautiful and hilarious. Thank you for the uplifting on a difficult morning.

Now to figure out how to give my best gist[1] a million stars :D

https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b... (Making a Nice zsh environment: Quick HOWTO install fzf oh-my-zsh powerlevel10k fd ripgrep on MacOS)

PS. Gimme stars! I crave stars!

PPS. More seriously, the 47 stars on that little guide have a disproportionate impact on my happiness. Plus some of my most respected peers said it was useful to them. The lesson here is that you can meaningfully improve our software world without writing an ubiquitous and elegant framework or new language. Instead, people still need good curated content, guides that glue things together, and plain old documentation.

PPPS. So start writing gists and improve project documentation with PRs: I believe in you!

fzf, zsh, rg, and fd all on macOS‽ Delectable! Stars++

And more importantly, helping other people out of the goodness of your heart.

Thank you for being so generous, fellow earthling!

I think the number of badges in the README also need to be included in the formula for Q.

An astute observation!

More badges being more vain than less, should that push up or down one’s Q-quotient?

Particularly "license" badges, which just repeat information already elsewhere on the main repo page.

Push up, obviously! I mean, more badges is always better... right?

As long as you’ve got some big numbers, absolutely.

Failing builds and outdated dependencies disappear when sitting beside 20K stars and 100K downloads.

If I submit an empty repo, but have a friend star it, then I’m the peak coder?

You'd be a superposition of infinitely capable and the sum type of all divide-by-zero errors. Either way, I'd want to work with you.

No worries, it's full of bots that like random repos to confuse the detection systems about the account being a bot.

HN karma/1000 is a good proxy for GitHub stars so you just need the repo.

No, but I like the hustle. You're hired!

you don't star your own repos? have some self-confidence

Is this better or worse than laughing at your jokes?

only if they're funny

This is silly.

I love it.

My favourite review so far! Thank you for the kind words.

It made me smile, and also made me consider enforcing Q∝ on all devs :)

The Q-quotient will be my legacy… what have I done.

This made me laugh many times.

Mission accomplished! Happy to hear it.

Something I wrote recently to put a smile on my face after a couple of tough weeks doing cold outreach.

If it makes another person smile, it was time we’ll spent.

TMI: I'm stressed, in pain, behind on work, tired from caring for my partner, and I have a constant headache because my short range work glasses broke forcing me to use a much older pair.

You made me smile and laugh, so I'm grateful for you today. Thank you.

You’re thoroughly welcome, bloopernova!

Thank you for reading and letting me know I’ve had a positive impact — it means a lot.

Keep your head up man try to find something to do just for you today

Hey thanks for the thoughts, you're pretty great you know?

In good news, my new glasses got delivered today so I'm able to eliminate that literal and figurative headache :)

That’s great news re: the glasses — headaches are horrendous!

I think it would be handy to show what sloc is (spire lines of code). I had to look it up since I'm used to just loc and I could not get my brain to figure out the s this morning.

It just means "source lines of code". "losc" sort of makes more sense with how we are used to speaking, but it's not as easy to pronounce as "sloc".

Apologies for the confusion. I hope the ambiguity didn’t detract too much from your enjoyment.

Maybe I could sneak an <abbr> in there for SLOC like I did for CSP.

I'm really curious where you found "spire lines of code". I can't find anything for that in a google search. What does that mean?

Probably just a swypo for “source”. o is close to p, u is close to i.

That was precisely it. Getting the right message out of Gboard is like pulling teeth. Just this message had like fifteen typos.

I don’t know if it’s my expectations evolving after using swyping for a while but it seems to have gotten worse over time.

There’s gotta be a word for this phenomenon.

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