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It is a very well integrated, smooth and preconfigured tiling window manager that also has a scroll mode like Niri.

I was using a different tiling manager before and there were all sorts of annoyances, pops breaking things. Behaviorally, this one gets everything right.

I really wonder how much of an impact these AI tools are going to have on the Linux ecosystem. Seems like huge potential advantage brewing over proprietary OSs. Look how fast Omarchy came together and improved…it’s phenomenal.

The serious mental and physical health problems are real and a societal concern. Everyone "notices" the trends, but maybe it's not you so you just think there's nothing you can do about it and do your best to stay healthy.

Then you have a child and you are suddenly hyper-aware of everything going into the body and brain. Everything they eat, every doctor visit, every time they get sick and what could have exposed them, every word spoken on TV, every friend they have and how they act or how that friend passes along their parents influences, etc.

And suddenly you're very concerned about societal level macro influences on food, medical, etc because those influences are going to affect your child's life.

I was the worlds best parent...before I had kids.

Never thought I'd find myself cheering for 4Chan, but here we are.

I'm curious if people have had success running it on Cloudflare workers. I know there was a lot of hype about that a few weeks ago.

JBoss was great back in the day. I remember when there was a JRuby port of it called Torquebox that I loved.

Eventually though, I found Elixir and it gave me everything I was looking for from that stack.

Yep, similar thing is happening with college sports.

You went from a situation where the intent was for coaches to develop young men, teach them about hard work, overcoming obstacles, getting an education and become a part of an alumni base for the rest of your life.

And now it's leaving at the slightest difficulty, constant money dangling to encourage transfers because even if the guy doesn't play for you at least he's not playing for your opponent, followed by a million voices online just telling kids to follow the money. There's no telling how much gambling is playing a part.

It's taken one of the best institutions in our country for developing youth and corrupted it while people go out of their way to not report on the stories of people being hurt by the process.

As a matter of perspective, the push to do so is to replace corrupt officials.

Ultimately, if you believe that the officials currently in place were doing their jobs without bias then this looks like corruption. If you believe that the existing officials were compromised by their politics, then this looks like removing corruption.

It's all perspective.

It’s not if you’ve paid attention to political trends for the last 15 years.

Everything is happening at the same time in every country. It’s clearly being coordinated.

Nice. I remember somebody who ran one of the BBS that my friends and I played on back in the day staying up to watch me play Usurper to figure out how I was beating everybody when they had their rooms guarded. It wasn't anything special, we just found a race/class combo that basically beat everything.

Fwiw, I try to make sure we have an accessibility focused talk every year (if possible) at the Carolina Code Conference. Call for Speakers is open right now if you'd be interested in submitting something on your story.

I’ve thought for a long time about setting up an old BBS. Inviting people to play Legend of the Red Dragon and Usurper. Well done.

As solid as the goals of Bluesky were from a technology perspective, the political driver of the user acquisition has the platform in the same category as Truth Social: political echo chambers. Two sides of the same coin. It's unfortunate because I don't think the branding is going away.

Mastodon has been great for tech communities in my experience though.

Reminds me of the “Electric cars in reverse” video where the guy envisions a world where all vehicles are electric and tries to make the argument for gas engines.

For me, learning Elixir did this. I was going to change careers into commercial real estate about 9 years ago and then I binge read “Programming Phoenix” over a weekend.

Walked into work Monday morning, bleary eyed and told everybody, “This is the solution. This is how you build rapidly and bypass all of the long term maintenance issues that we always have to fix in every other codebase. It makes the hard things easy, it makes perfect sense and it’s FUN.”

Yep. I have loved fixing problems in systems and the processes that the people working on them use for years.

I ran a project for a company on Google Cloud a few years ago and enjoyed it once I got used to everything. I’d use it more now if they had better low end pricing to start projects there.

It’s a very different experience than AWS though and takes some getting used to.

Bartowski? Like Chuck Bartowski from the TV show?

The flip side of this is that languages who have a major selling point of maintainability just had their value increase dramatically.

I have long thought about doing something like this with news in general, but I like the specific focus on bills.

What I’d planned to do with news might be a good addition to this system though. If you can, collect news articles from different sources and try to highlight what is left out. I’ve noticed that 99% of news bias isn’t factual incorrectness, but intentional omission of details to frame the story in a specific context.

> "And everything we send over to Ukraine is sent through NATO and they pay us in full." - Trump

Which the US actively funds…so after a $66 billion advance now the costs are being shared by other vested countries.

And at that point the US had already provided about $66 billion directly.

Because in Ukraine if we intervene directly the US will be at war with Russia. Instead we are supplying weapons and intel.

Wow, seriously? I signed my team up for it Thursday.

I hear about CashApp but I don’t know anybody who uses it. What’s the selling point?

Yep. Stories like that are the strongest case to protect US on shore manufacturing. All of the knowledge, skill talent and associated supply chains naturally colocate.

I was on Kali back in the day too. Got into the top 10 on Cases Ladder. One of my friends made #5 one time.

Man, I used to be in the top 10 on Cases Ladder for Duke Nukem when I was in high school. Good times.

Don’t forget campaigning to remove standardized testing from admissions processes even leading to UCSD having to create remedial math classes for their engineering students.