Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

my girlfriend has very cute, kissable lips 💋

roark: while you were sitting at home reading comic books, i was studying the blade

hobby: watching the pokémon anime and pointing out all the C·O·T·D’s who are definitely fucking their pokémon

but i still would not contribute to rails

there’s plenty of tech thinkpiecing right now which is like “if a web scraper uses libxml2 to process web pages does that mean that contributing to libxml2 is being complicit in web scraping” and i don’t buy that, i think (1) the people who are complicit in the web scraping are the people providing the physical infrastructure (machines, wires, electricity) required to carry it out, and (2) libxml2 isn’t even that good, and the fact that the web scrapers can Just Use It instead of writing their own XML parser might save them a little bit of time and intellectual work in the short term, but in the long term they would just write their own XML parser, it’s not like nobody knows how to do that, secrecy regarding the methods and computer code is not a meaningful impediment

programmers seem very committed in the present moment to thinking of code as concrete and material but infrastructure as abstract and ephemeral and i would like to suggest that maybe that is exactly backwards

this isn’t like, a particularly principled stance, because ultimately i think that the bulk of the ethical responsibility for computers lies at the feet of the people providing the computers, and not at the feet of some randos who wrote a software library that someone else decided to run on the computers, but also, no i do not want to make those software platforms i disagree with strongly on a philosophical level Better

honestly i’ve found bugs or at least Problems in ruby or rails or whatever before and come up with workarounds but i will never submit a patch upstream because do you realize what people use rails to Do

X·M·L was right to mandate that lesthan be written < everywhere

parsing is just so much more complicated when you can't tell immediately if a curly brace is opening an object or just a literal curly brace in a string

i want a data interchange format like Json but which doesn't allow meaningful markup characters inside quoted strings. does this exist. i mean aside from X·M·L

buddy you don’t even own the thing you wrote; you let everyone make their own copy for free

programmers will literally think that just because they wrote the operating manual that they own the machine

i wonder if there is anything which can be learned from all this

similarly, the part where tolkien was bad was the part where he was an englishman riffing on other cultures he had no personal stake in

the part where tolkien was good was the part where he was an englishman riffing on english culture and its antecedents

i’m invisible today (took a vacation day from work)

until that gets fixed we can probably realistically never have things like webrings again

if you sharing a link to someone’s personal hobby project has a chance of them going not “hey cool man thanks for the support” but “oh my god i did not ask for this spotlight”, you should just log off and never log back on

i don’t blame google or social media i blame walking talking context collapse machines making it impossible to say anything ever because someone Famous might see it and share it with a million random people

web got bad when celebrities logged on