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hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 07:26
@monospace a quarter century of muscle memory and affordances from programmer’s text editing environments.
It’s more about my habits than any actual shortcoming of the PKM tools.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 09:19
@gizmomathboy @minego And alas times (and Nazi assholes) being what they are, I have to ask:
which project?
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 09:22
@gizmomathboy @minego ohhh yeah that one is unfortunate. I know it doesn’t taste the same, but what about Guix? That’s the one I’ve been dancing on the edge of for a year.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 09:26
@minego @gizmomathboy No judgment. Makes it easy to boost yourself in a few months for “‘No way to prevent this,’ says only tech culture where it happens”
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 10:45
@minego @gizmomathboy unfortunate but true.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 11:02
@openbuddha @earthshine @thegibson @c0debabe that’s a good path choice, absolutely.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 11:37
If you want to fork Mastodon, do it because that’s your idea of fun.
Not because you don’t like the way they’re doing things. The likeliest outcome of this path is you burn yourself out chasing compatibility for a project that’ll never be more than “Y, a fork of X.”
You want a better project than Mastodon, write an ActivityPub implementation or contribute to one that exists. Steal adapt as many Mastodon additions as you like.
Just don’t do “Y, a fork of X.” The success rate of those is — not great.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 11:45
Yes, there are plenty of notable exceptions, forks that became bigger than the original. LibreOffice jumps immediately to mind.
But out of how many forks? How much community effort and emotional energy did it take?
I mean it’s not quite lottery odds, but still. You want to tilt at that windmill you go right ahead. But there could be more enjoyable paths.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 11:48
@freakazoid hackers.town runs on Glitch, a pretty active “friendly fork.”
But man. Always having to keep your eye upstream like that. I’d hate it.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 12:03
@galaxis @freakazoid neat!
If I were to do anything like a fork — unlikely with my attention span — I’d probably do a reimplementation in Hanami. Different framework but same application language so there’s one less layer of mental translation.
I wouldn’t chase feature-for-feature compatibility, but I would target API compatibility sufficient that mainstream mobile applications and Web frontends could work without effort.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 12:03
@mcgrew right? Eugen does his best, but he’s not globally infamous enough to drive that kind of passion.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 12:04
@freakazoid @thegibson @galaxis digging deeper into Veilid is definitely in my (mountainous) TODO stack.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 15:01
google’s new motto gonna be “wrong lever, kronk”
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 15:14
I didn’t just break down a one-liner this time, but I also did that
Generating a Plugins Page for my Logseq Graph
#SecondBrain #Logseq #Nushell #Blog
https://randomgeekery.org/post/2024/04/generating-a-plugins-page-for-my-logseq-graph/
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 16:46
@hashraydamon as of the last update I got, got rid of their internal Python team.
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 16:58
@thegibson @hashraydamon to my perception, Google on the whole has been defined by reactivity and chasing other companies’ shadows since
oh god G+ was how long ago?
hackers.town: 2024-04-28 Sun 22:28
@elisol I mean maybe?
Another thought I’ve had is “I’ve seen a lot of Star Wars knock-offs in my time, and this is certainly one of them.”
But I enjoyed it. It was very High School Drama Class Does The Teacher’s Passion Project With a 166 Million Dollar Budget