@fargate ooh this does seem like an Aliensrock game! kinda makes me want to find more of his videos lol - he has pretty similar tastes to mine

@tropicaltrevor I’m so glad you think so! 💙

@lain @Mitsu “fans say”

the moon fandom is at it again

as someone who likes both {well-designed logic puzzles} and {games that make me feel like I’m being productive and helpful}, The Artisan of Glimmith is like catnip for me. would definitely recommend giving it a try if that sounds appealing

lately, i've been having fun playing videogames. is this right? are videogames supposed to be fun?

@ReignOfRaining Part of it might come down to "a lot of these conversations started on twitter and twitter had such an aggressive character limit that even getting one proper paragraph in without splitting it up was a chore, which had a frankly deleterious effect on communication on many levels"

Public Service Announcement: Spell out your content warnings. Do not use acronyms because its confusing and unclear what you are warning folks about. Kind of defeats the point of a content warning if you aren’t actually CLEARLY warning people whats inside the post…

@dotfox ooh that is very good to know - thank you!

@veer66 good to know - thank you!

so I’m trying to learn #clojure and would love some advice

the way that I usually write code is to define exactly what type of data each function expects, and exactly what type of data it returns. (like Python’s type annotations or Racket’s contract system) I find that very helpful for keeping track of what my functions are for, and for making sure that I’m using them correctly (this is especially helpful for quickly finding incorrect function calls after I refactor a function)

ideally I’d like to have either static analysis, or a runtime error be thrown if my functions aren’t being called correctly (or if they’re returning invalid data)

it looks like Clojure has a few different options for doing something like this:

• schema
• malli
• specs

do y’all have a recommendation for which I should use, and maybe a link to a guide on how to use it? I’m ngl the documentation that I’ve found for all of these so far intimidates me a lot lol, so I would love something simpler

The windows/Linux struggle demonstrates that whoever makes things Just Work, without issues, without fiddling, is the one who gets the user base.

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc.

So it's very fitting that a company named Apple continuously makes apps.

Anti-Thatcher graffiti which appeared around the UK shortly after her death on the 8th of April, 2013

"I have a context dependent and nuanced opinion about a thing"

=

"How dare you! You must be absolutely for/against this thing I like/hate 100% of the time or else you're literally a Nazi"

There's a certain genre of techno music I basically think of as contraption music. It might technically qualify as club music, but if we're perfectly honest the real appeal is spinning up this musical contraption that's essentially the sonic equivalent of a rube Goldberg device.

Autechre is the classic example of this genre in action, but my favorite example is Graham Dunning since his approach of sequencing his music mechanically, using layers of prepared vinyls and 3d-printed surfaces on a spinning turntable and relying on physical or light-based triggers means that his music is about as literally a Contraption as you can possibly get without going full Wintergatan.