Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.

Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads

I just default to doing lazy prompt injection attempts in every public forum now

@kianga reading this as someone that has never managed to run Windows for more than a few months and runs Linux ever since they started using computers (not counting macOS for a year) is very weird

I like, to use the same analogy, enter the apartment, spend the whole time trying to make the lights change to the precise color I want by hooking into its wiring and then giving up after a week of failure, installing like 20 locks on the door to make the landlord stop coming - after the previous 19 locks were broken, there's now a laser trap and a trap with hungry sharks and the landlord still somehow manages to get in

When I get tired of this and the electricity dying in the middle of me working or cooking and shutting down all of the lights and everything, spoiling the food in my fridge, I give up, blow the apartment up and move to my cozy cottage in the woods, which is currently resembling a Hello Neighbor house moreso than anything else, and some random thing collapses in an on itself every few days, and the breakers pop every month, but at least I can cook and work in peace. Mostly.

For anyone interested in contributing to an #OpenSource web browser, check out our "good first issues" project board to see if there's something you'd have fun working on.

https://github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/projects/5

Does anyone have a thermal receipt printer they particularly like?

I want to start printing little thermal-printed versions of my blog posts to staple in my journal. But I don't know much about what good brands are and the like?

@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears!

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"