Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

"Community governance costs energy, so let's just make top-down decisions instead!"

I swear to $deity...

I can't help but wonder whether the widespread cycle of "trauma and abuse passed down through the generations" might have something to do with our collective insistence that children be raised by exactly one (1) set of parents, who generally have not yet learned to process their own trauma and receive no outside support

Poverty can be a form of disability; it can significantly impair your executive functioning, and make you literally unable to complete certain tasks

Fuck you, #Adobe, and the "open-use" you rode in on, for expecting bloggers to do your unpaid(!) advertising for you, and trying to dress it up as a courtesy

The internet works a lot better when you actually plug the fiber back into the modem

Every single data fetching library seems to make the exact same mistake:
- Realize that nested data retrieval can be reliably decomposed into multiple retrieval calls
- Settle on this approach in the library design and build around all the tools around it
- "Oh right, we need support for mutations too"
- Try to extend the existing fetching model with a 'mutation mode'
- Fail to realize that nested mutations *do not* decompose into multiple mutation calls... and end up with a completely bolted-on mutation API

Is this like, the data fetching API design equivalent of "forgetting to put on the heatshrink before soldering the connector every time", or something?

Show me someone talking about their favourite language features, and I will tell you their politics

(Hardly a novel insight, and one that has appeared in many fields besides programming, but somehow programmers still like to believe they are 'objective' and 'neutral')