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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 5d

This has me wanting a font with ligatures that stretches letters for alignment. I've heard that Arabic naturally has this, but now I want it in English! Stretch that O to make my words align!

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taylor.town @taylor.town · 7d

research.youtube Can any researchers with an .edu email help me get access to YouTube's research datasets? I'd love to poke around and map out the YT landscape

YouTube Research - Home

Learn more about how YouTube is equipping researchers from around the world with data to advance the public’s understanding of our platform

research.youtube

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 9d

@zed.dev it'd be really cool if you could search the git blame gutter

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 13d

We all have a choice.

The Internet is ours.

We all have a choice

Taking action and Doing The Right Thing is often difficult, always exhausting, but it is what we must do, together.

whitep4nth3r.com

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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 13d

Shocked to see Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch meeting with an indicted war criminal, who is committing an internationally recognized genocide

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 14d

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" - the President of the United States of America

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 15d

I can't compare cause I haven't used ast-grep. I'm happy that multiple people are building this type of tooling though. I'm hopeful that we will have a future with more support for AST based tooling

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 16d

I'm still amazed that more people don't use comby.dev. Just used it to do a complex refactor on a little under 1k Elixir files and it took me nearly 0 effort to do so.

Comby · Structural code search and replace for ~every language.

Structural code search and replace for ~every language.

comby.dev

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 16d

The "Elm Land" Elm plugin for VSCode does this, but all in-editor. It actually loads your local copy of the docs, but that can better when you're working with limited internet.

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 17d

@hillelwayne.com do you by chance know the origin of the

def name() do
...
end

style syntax? I feel like you must have come across this at some point in your various research.

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 17d

Whoever thought rounded corners on a phone screen was a good idea must have also thought the paper in the original Battlestar Galactica was the coolest thing ever. I disagree

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Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 18d

I'm streaming right now! Come see me try and figure out BIG INTEGERS

twitch.tv/martinjaniczek

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 18d

The color difference between the real monitor and the digital boxes is really making me think about the difference between displaying pixel art on a CRT vs an LCD and how the former is darker & naturally blends the pixels. I feel like you need to darken your faux windows to better match

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 18d

You should try changing your boxes to have a foreground of (roughly) r:183, g:149, b:51 and your dither to (roughly) r:110, g:89, b:29

The first color would get you closer to your real font (as it presents), and I think darkening the dither would just be pleasant 😊

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 18d

What if the "shadow" area around the yellow windows was dithered?

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 22d

Three months late, but I really liked this one: rebels.cs.uwaterloo.ca/papers/tse20...

Authors claim that type annotations catch ~15% of bugs found in the wild, with breakdowns of type of bug, how long they estimated annotations would take, etc.

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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 23d

i'm putting the feelers out for frontend-y dev rel-y docs-y gigs that are 2-3 days a week. if you know someone looking for someone who can do gleam/elm/react/write words, hit me up 💕

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 24d

Research question for people who aren't software developers:

Have you ever used LLMs to make a software script for something? What was it for and how was your experience?

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 24d

I was reading something on lobste.rs the other day and found myself on a blog that had a post about why you should basically never use checkboxes. There was a update at the end, from years later I think, about 1 case where checkboxes are useful. Anyone know this blog? Trying to re-find it

wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 27d

Milwaukee does. Didn't have one when I lived in Denver though, but they had less bugs overall it seemed

wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think the thing for me that'd make a text editor feel really next level is if it supported navigation via LSP. Like pressing the arrow keys would move forward/backward in/out of expressions/scopes. Kinda like vim navigation but being context aware of the type of text being moved over.

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · Sep 11

I do this sooooo much. It's like the git bisect but printf 😀

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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Not everything that can be automated ought to be automated."

www.gingerbill.org/article/2025...

Package Managers are Evil

n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup Package managers (for programming languages) are evil1. To start, I need to make a few ...

www.gingerbill.org

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Flavio 🏴‍☠️ @flaviocorpa.com · Sep 6

Data Science BlueSky: if I wanted to train my first model to do some text file processing, what resources would you recommend? It mostly includes braille outputs and Word files 🤔

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