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I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! wiki.slightly.tech/books/proje

@joepie91 "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is a response that you'd only get from a developer to shut down genuine complaints often made by users who are themselves not developers and never will be developers.

It's a callous cop-out at best and a refusal to acknowledge and address poor design or critically missing features at worst.

I've worked with a bunch of game engines over the years. so far Godot + GDScript is genuinely a lot of fun to work with, it brings back that "small but powerful framework" vibe. Has many quirks and odd decisions (most I probably haven't even encountered yet), but yes, it's fun to work.

Wealthy Americans every Christmas: *watching endless adaptions of a moral fable by a Victorian social critic about how the rich stop the poor from affording necessary healthcare, so that their children die, and how this also damns the rich*

OH "Wait, the bus is now more luxurious than my car? I don't have individual seat heating in my car!"

It occurs to me that this is rarely said out loud, but it probably should be:

The ability to fork open-source software is important, *but* the idea of "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is basically a lie. It has never worked that way and it will never work that way.

In reality you're dealing with project governance and so there are a lot of social factors (community support, motivation to 'compete' with the established name, etc.) that are critical to not having a fork wither on the vine.

And it's very difficult to pull that off, and usually requires a long history of growing resentment about the leadership of the forked project. This means a fork is rarely the best solution.

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.

"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."

"Right on."

vaguely spicy take 

People joke about "expensing hacker events as work trips" but actually I think that's genuinely a reasonable thing to do, even under the 'conventional' understanding of what constitutes a 'work trip' (for training and education).

There's no rule that says a trip must be boring to qualify as "materially useful to your job"! That idea is just some puritan(?) ideological nonsense, it has no bearing on how the world works.

Promistreams are now officially in beta! :boost_requested: (Which mostly just means I have added a little infobox at the top of the page :blobcatgiggle: )

wiki.slightly.tech/books/proje

Basically, they're streams for that are actually nice to work with, have first-class Promise support, handle errors correctly, handle concurrency reliably, interoperate with other stream implementations, and just generally make more sense than Node streams.

You can use them for streaming data, but also for things like task queues or distribution patterns. They can work in any JS environment, and are not limited to Node.js. More documentation will become available soon (especially for more complex cases), but the basic stuff is already explained at the link.

Please give them a try and let me know how it went, and whether you ran into any issues!

Things with completely inaccurate names:
Cypress pine - not from cypress and not a pine tree, Australian and in the family Cupressaceae not Pinoideae

Asking for suggestions for a free blogging service that's anonymous, not corporate-owned, preferably connected to the #Fediverse, that's NOT #WordPress. Wanting to scratch that itch again. 😃

#AskFedi

ETA: @PleaseBoost

One of my favourite things about Glasgow is all the street art that pops up in places, featuring themed renditions of this spiky blob. I have no idea who’s responsible for it but I love it.

This one is on Dumbarton Road, by the rail bridge near Partick station

What is really frustrating for me when I volunteer for @c3auti and also #accessibility is that the most difficult work is totally invisible but the mishaps are always obvious.

I know I will get shoutet at (rightfully) for some of the barriers I know will still exist on #38C3. I know I will probably need to bother PL at least once per day.

Nobody sees the huge nastiness that is averted by good care work. They just see that I couldn't hold my presentation the day after.

Check your backups.

FFS.

CHECK YOUR BACKUPS.

My alerting didn't trigger so I learned there are no valid backups since December 1st (to one of my two offsite locations). And I can't re-enable it because the remote ran out of disk space and zfs holds are funny.

I had to reboot the source machine in the end, and that triggered a new cascade of issues with the nvidia driver updating and totally screwing containerd over.

How did I end up in this place arrrgh.

Check your backups. And alerting.

With determination getting people onto bicycles and out of cars can reduce local pollution in a few years.

Kim Kyung-Hoon took this photo of a press conference by the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi, and accidentally created the perfect album cover.

Darf ich vorstellen:
Die Docs-Page des derReparierer Repositories. Schaut mal rein!

May I introduce:
The docs page of the derReparierer repository. Take a look!

derreparierer.codeberg.page/

#repair #reparatur #electronics #codeberg

Ah, Github's trying to fix that branch name vulnerability with a sledge hammer:

The head ref may contain hidden characters: "\u{1F980}\u{1F980}\u{1F980}"

(U+1F980 is 🦀)

I hate that so many news sites treat online content like this. “Someone” made this? It’d make a lot of people’s days to get credited for their work on a big site like that instead of it just getting credited to “someone”.

consider writing to Luigi to take the meme posting and the jokes to the next level of directly expressing your support to him

tips on how to write prisoners here: liberationlib.org/become-a-pen

write to:
Luigi Mangione 52503-511
MDC Brooklyn
PO Box 392002
Brooklyn, NY 11232

assume all your letters will be read by the feds before he gets to read them. accordingly, consider using a pen name (and tell him, "my pen name is XYZ"), and a return address that isn't your home.

check the mail guidelines before you write/send to ensure your letters get to Luigi:
jailexchange.com/federal-priso

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