Samuel W. Flint
swflint.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy
Samuel W. Flint
@swflint.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Dakota State University. Interested in how developers use and understand programming languages. Opinions my own & not […]

🌉 bridged from https://techhub.social/@swflint on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are […]
Original post on tldr.nettime.org
tldr.nettime.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
#aurora visible from Lake County, #southdakota
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at https://wizardzines.com/#posters
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Just realized I forgot to post my annual advice to college students before the school year started – but well, it's never too late to start:

- GOING THE FUCK TO CLASS

- GOING THE FUCK TO BED

- DOING YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK

THIS IS THE MAGICAL TRINITY OF NOT HATING YOURSELF OR FEELING YOU'VE […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
September 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
OMFG, I own a piece of history.
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Bob Kuttner checks in from Norway, where there's a Museum of the National Resistance depicting the ways the Quisling government during WWII was undermined. He wonders what the museum depicting today's resistance would look like.
prospect.org/politics/202...
The Museum of the Trump Resistance
Someday, we will honor those who resisted Donald Trump. But first, we need far more courageous resistance.
prospect.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Twisted's coding standard for our #restructuredtext files is to use what we have termed "semantic newlines". That is to say: every sentence is on its own line. In principle, I like this. It means smaller, more readable diffs, and less pointless churn. In practice, with my #emacs fill-paragraph […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Is there some idiomatic way to edit files like this? I am really close to writing a bunch more elisp and I am so tired
July 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things. Places like tailors, cobblers, electronics repair are all at risk of vanishing along with the skills required to do these things.

Right at a moment when we should be […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
May 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
There needs to be:

* incentives to manufacture things that can be repaired
* a general shift to see repairability as a sign of quality, luxury and responsibility
* training a new generation to do the work
* support for these trades so it's a viable way of life

Having a job fixing things is one […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
May 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
WTAF?????

#newark Mayor #rasbaraka #arrested for alleged trespass at #newjersey #ice detention facility

Mayor #baraka was arrested for allegedly trespassing inside a US #immigration & Customs Enforcement #detention center in his city.

"He has been taken into custody," #alinahabba, a fmr […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Way to go Greyhound!
April 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Do you all deserve another Benny Beagle picture?

Of course you all deserve another Benny Beagle picture!

April 6, 2025. Kensington Metropark, Milford, Michigan.

#beagle #beagles #dog #dogs #michigan #dogsofmastodon #photography
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
Happy National Library Week!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Week

Some things you can do this week to celebrate:

- Get yourself a library card, if you haven't already, or help someone else sign up!
- Check out your library's free […]

[Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
April 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Samuel W. Flint
March 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM