in other news, I have to do some ios development for work and am trying to send a test build to people and am waiting for "app store review" in order to send a test build to a few people :(

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I recently saw a review of the remarkable 2 tablet and one of the things that knocked down the score was that it didn't have it's own app store and this still baffles me.

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the moment that apple started enforcing use of the app store for it's users was the moment I stopped buying any apple products. what a nightmare the app store is.

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Its not a "hackspace" if most of your programme is about proprietary, closed source tools. Its an obedient consumer space.

Fite me.

how many years have I been typing "teh" instead of "the". you'd think it'd be in my fingers by now.

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The problem with computer literacy classes is that they don’t teach computer literacy, they teach consumerism.

what do people generally think of the Brave browser?

nearly every time I load up a Rust file in vim these days it is telling me there is a new version of rust-analyzer available and if I want to update. I really love that.

really love refactoring using TypeScript

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hey, the metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they've published that're now out of print that you can download for free

most of em are about art, archeology, architecture, fashion or history and you can find em here: metmuseum.org/art/metpublicati

why python why? why no multi-line lambdas? :(

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A Studio Ghibli gif that describes me? Oh, that’s INCREDIBLY easy

anyone got some favorite functional programming design-pattern resources?

is it me or does debugging in node.js still suck pretty hard?

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also... Dart. I'm already working across way too many different languages on production code. not sure I really want Dart in the mix.

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i guess this is the idea with flutter but flutter just leaves accessibilty in the dust (and therefore no possibilities for a low-res text only version of a site)

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maybe the web future is in solving the accessibility issue with canvas rendering and leaning much heavier on websssembly. efficient code in the browser but still semantically tagged data behind it. anyone know any good tooling for approaches to this so far?

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