the lineage of text editors that leads all the way up to neovim is actually kind of overwhelming to think about. it’s incredible that over 50 years of iterative improvement, interrupted occasionally by burning the whole codebase down and starting from scratch, has resulted in what we have now

vim is A Lot and it’s also very unintuitive - and neovim is even moreso - but it makes a lot of sense to me that that would be the case given how long these editors and their ancestors have been around, and how many decades’ worth of quirks they’ve picked up. but I think that also kind of explains how they’ve become such incredibly powerful and flexible tools

this is a weird comparison but it reminds me of the incredibly intricate family tree of space station 13 codebases - all taking influence from each other, reverse-engineering each other, or outright stealing each other’s code (with or without permission) resulting in an unbelievably complicated ecosystem of ideas

the open source world seems like absolute chaos to me - but it’s a kind of chaos that, if you leave it alone for long enough, sometimes creates incredibly refined tools that are very difficult to configure and use but unbelievably good at what they do

https://beige.party/@LoganFive/114581820393846235

Euphoria.

Oh, if babybat kris from 2017-2019 could see himself now...

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lol in 6 months I’ve gotten one notification on Xitter and it was just asking me to turn on push notifications

getting really fucking tired of dealing with unresponsive SPAs. this time it’s the Kroger website and it is so, so bad. clicking on anything or typing one (1) character into any textbox freezes my browser for a solid 800ms. I don’t understand what value - if any - making your website an SPA adds other than aesthetics. like regular static 2000’s-style websites seem to have far fewer issues across the board - they just don’t look as nice to the average person I guess?

If someone uses the incorrect pronouns for someone, especially a trans person, after being corrected and/or uses their deadname (necronym), you're looking at a transphobe, full stop.

No matter how much social justice and anti-bigotry language they may bathe themselves in, no matter how they may position themselves as "advocating for the marginalised", no matter how much you may respect them for other actions, these are *bare minimum* things, right up there with not using ethnic slurs.

p.s. for a trans person, having a necronym outed to the public is literally life-threatening, whether that leads to direct physical abuse (including death) or discrimination and abuse from entities like companies and communities (which can also all too easily lead to death)

#SocialJustice #Abuse #Bigotry #Transphobia

p.s. show this to your cis friends because holy hells, right now, the faves and boosts are like 95% trans-fems

p.p.s. yaaay, faves and boosts have balanced out a little bit

ugh writing loops in javascript is the worst because it’s like, alright which one do I need to use this time? is it going to be for ... of var.entries()? is it going to be for ... in var? is it var.forEach()? is it for ... of var? do I have to do a C-style for (let i; ...; i++)? who knows! let’s try all of them until one of them works! every single time!