Lady @Lady@cat.family

const handlerID= request.send().then(
response => process(response)
).then(
processed => getHandler("proper object).handle(processed)
).catch(
context => {
throw new HandleError ({ context })
}
)

is a very English way of saying things

lots of people say lisp and japanese are sibling languages but i think the same is true of english and javascript

time to close GitLab on my work laptop and open GitLab on my personal laptop

lol i contribute to ONE repository and suddenly GitHub is recommending me things like “Science History Institute Digital Collections”

@monorail i don't think people have negative intent but i think a lot of people have neutral intent and a lot of negative systems are enabled by it

simply not being bad is only good enough in a world which is good by default, which isn't our world

@Satsuma my personal stance is that we should just eliminate pronouns

@Satsuma (this is not a genuine proposal, more just me pointing out that this is how Proto-Indo-European happened)

@Satsuma yes, probably this would require reducing the number to maybe three or four

what if we just encoded gender as a grammatical property of nouns so we wouldn't have to keep giving our pronouns all the time