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actively requiring documents to be served with a media type of application/xml instead of a more specific media type: why

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web browsers deciding not to just render any file type ending in +xml is fucked

list of fediverse implementations which make use of RFC4198

being surrounded
by people but being left
virtually alone

me: greetings sound like a good way to start teaching a language

me, realizing that teaching greetings requires covering all four kinds of valency and at least three moods:

how i learned to stop worrying and embrace magic numbers

i’m running a code sharing service for humans here, not a piece of computing infrastructure; if you want reliable computing infrastructure i encourage you to manage your own repo on your own platform

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why? because i’m not interested in hosting broken code, and because you should be using hashes not tags for anything you need an immutable identifier for

“but using a hash doesn’t help if that hash ceases to be available” i’m not interested in hosting broken code

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my git policy by the way is that versions before the latest are immutable; anything goes after that point

i can and do retag latest versions and do fixups on them

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there are lots of new features i want to add, some of which are really useful!! but i’m refusing to do so until i have a proper release of what i have

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i basically had this feature-complete shortly after i published 0.9.3

don’t let versions 0.9.4 thru 0.9.6 fool you, they are bugfixes rebased backwards in time

and then look at how many commits since 0.9.6

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i have been not publishing version 1.0.0 of this thing because i haven’t written docs because my documentation markup language isn’t ready yet and folks, i keep finding bugs in it

i mean not the part where they travel to the heavens and leave behind a triforce but the other part

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.