Minoru @minoru@functional.cafe

Beware: my instance allows 2500 characters per toot, and I routinely reach that limit, especially in comments.

("Microblogging"? No, never heard of that term before. Is that like an essay but slightly shorter?)

Oversleeping is the worst. I hate it when my brain feels like a potato. Got some cleaning and chores done though, so that's a plus. Sup fedi?

Nauka module is now docked to ISS! 🚀

Surprisingly good day today:

• Cloudflare says their datacentres run almost entirely on renewable energy, and they will be migrating to more power-efficient CPUs and buy CO₂ offsets to match what they produced since 2010 https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-committed-to-building-a-greener-internet/

• GitHub put $1M into a slush fund to cover legal expenses for developers hit by DMCA takedown notices https://github.blog/2021-07-27-github-developer-rights-fellowship-stanford-law-school/

Steps in the right direction.

There's a series on YouTube called Tally Ho. It's about the namesake wooden yacht, which was built in 1909, won some races, had a long working life, but fell into disrepair and was this close from getting scraped when a young British boatbuilder took it upon himself to restore it.

Or rather "rebuild it", because by that time, only a skeleton remained.

I'm not a sailor nor a boatbuilder, and I don't know the first thing about woodworking. And yet, it was pure joy to see how the old structure was gradually renewed, how some parts were re-done to fix the damage that the boat sustained over the years, and how constant hard work can really chip away at a daunting project like this.

The 100th episode recaps the previous four years of work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXYZHVqmwY If you enjoy it even a tiny bit, chances are you'll enjoy the previous 50 hours of episodes too.

This series is the most inspiring and satisfying thing I've watched on YouTube in the last few years. Give it a try.

I'm reading Tanenbaum's Computer Architecture, and the microcode for swap just blew my mind. Such a careful dance between asking for data and doing something else while waiting for it to arrive! Much nicer than nop which wastes a cycle :)

I can only imagine the feeling engineers get when they manage to design such things for real-world architectures.

Feed entries from https://packdeps.haskellers.com now link to the corresponding packdeps page, not the Hackage page. I personally find this very convenient, hope others like it as well!

#Haskell

Yay, Nauka reached orbit! 🚀 Now 8 days of wait until the docking with ISS.

#TIL about one more annoying pattern I should try not to fall into: "reply guy" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reply%20guy

На прошлых выходных прошёл ICFPC — трёхдневное соревнование по программированию с очень сложной, классной задачей. Вот мой отчёт: https://blog.debiania.in.ua/posts/2021-07-17-icfpc-2021.html

#ICFPC #ICFPC2021

If you never wrote acceptance tests before, today might be a good day to start: Subplot, a new tool in that space, looks for its first brave users https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2021/07/11/subplot/

The key difference from Cucumber is that Subplot produces an HTML or PDF document which non-programmers can read and understand. You can actually show it to your users, and they might be able to give you feedback.

I tried Subplot earlier in a new small project, and even though the authors claim it's "alpha-quality software", I didn't actually run into any big problems: I just wrote some project-specific bindings (in Python, but Rust and Bash are on the horizon!), and used those bindings to write tests. It's all pretty easy to do. I also liked how it immediately made me think in terms of the interface, not implementation (as unit and integrations tests do).

#Programming paved my way into English, so I never noticed how unnatural "if … then … else …" sounds. But Eric Fischer did, and found out where the "else" came from: https://github.com/ericfischer/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md What a fascinating dive into history!

I closed two issues and opened four new ones. I'm not doing this "software development" thing correctly, am I?

Half-fixed a bug, but already found two more. I don't have a good feeling about this.