Charles Pick

it's time to head back to IRC and niche forums

what a perfect day to announce!

isn't that mostly true? their job is about influence more than anything else

I like constructs or produces for this, but types can be somewhat dynamic anyway so I don’t really understand the concern

It’s not looking good so far

Turns out the platform was only part of the problem, the rest of the problem was human nature and the idiocy of crowds

In a lot of factories they have vending machines for e.g. drill bits, blades etc

NaN is infectious and TS cannot catch it. It's better to throw, otherwise you end up with NaN all over the place and figuring out where it came from is a pain

That's actually known as The British Ocean

`createAtom` is superior. You are not going to have another variable in scope called `createAtom` but you might have one called `atom` and that leads to horrible naming cludges. If operations other than `create` are supported, what will you call those?

now that you're officially a geordie the tradition is to get the train down on a saturday lunch time, get _off your face_ and then head back home around 10pm

don't forget to stop off at York on your travels north, we have wonky streets, vikings and a cathedral!

The advantage of this is it makes writing intermediaries (e.g. proxies) easier - they don't have to understand the whole protocol, they can just look at the length prefixes to know when a message is complete, the disadvantage is that it introduces latency and increases memory usage

The sender has to know the byte length of the payload before it can be sent, therefore it has to buffer the entire payload into memory before it can be sent to the consumer, defeating streaming.

you may!

lol this is going to get co-opted by those who see their schooling as a source of pride, not shame

It's far from mission accomplished but if nothing else comes of this fortunate Bluesky wave, it should be considered proved that it's *possible* to challenge the incumbent social apps with open alternatives.

Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.

Flat Eric is looking great for a 25yr old!

My toxic trait is sending inspirational quotes to my colleagues every morning until they quit

it is _extremely_ uncommon, almost no one does it (source: worked on hundreds of codebases)

also the temperature on twitter is noticeably even more uncomfortable the last few weeks, presumably US election related but the worst people in the world suddenly seemed to get a lot more vocal

it's much chiller here, the mob hasn't descended yet

this is undoubtedly the better place. The _other_ place's decline seems to have sped up dramatically over the last few weeks, like it was bad before but now it's an intolerable hate-filled cess pool

just setting up my bluesky