Buy a portable AC unit and install it in your bedroom or living room window.

Apparently it’s hard to get hired in software. Meanwhile, some of the worst software ever made is being written today. Have you tried using literally any software recently? We’re in this “barely good enough to function while being heavily supplemented by tech support” phase. I guess capitalism breeds incompetence as long as it’s still profitable?

Gleam is cool. I wrote some services with it to see if I wanted to use it for more projects. It seemed like a good option because it would be easy to teach.

Things I like:

• fast build times (I only tested small apps though, under 2000 LOC)
• strong static types
• runs on the BEAM
• easy to learn
• pattern matching
• immutable + structural sharing
• currying (with parameter holes)

Things I don’t like:

• no re-exports
• it’s possible to have name collisions between packages; authors have a gentleman’s agreement to always create a top-level module with the same name as the package
• some standard library APIs seem missing or immature (it’s still pre-1.0)
• it can be hard to get good performance out of idiomatic code for specific tasks (see immutability)
• no format strings; best you can do is "Hello, " <> name. It starts to get cumbersome
• parsing/serialization is all quite manual boilerplate; there’s nothing quite like serde
• no field/argument punning
• no method syntax; you just have to scan the docs to figure out what functions can be used with a given type
• you can’t define the same variant name twice in the same module; I believe this is a limitation in how the types are translated to Erlang records
• you can’t call functions in pattern matching if guards
• you can’t have dependency cycles between modules in the same package
• hard to write FFI correctly; you lose all the comfort of types

I think it would help narrow things down if you described what kind of website you want to build.

They explicitly said they want to build a website. Not that you can’t go far with a Java server + HTML(X) but JS is the de facto standard for interactive websites.

Javascript

WASM

If I tried this again today I would perish need to be rescued

But with discipline and training, this climb is very achievable! You don’t need to be a technical climber for this one.

Probably climbing up the West Ridge of Quandary Peak in CO. I was with 3 college friends. I didn’t expect the altitude to affect me as much as it did, but I got pretty winded. It was a little snowy and wet, so our holds were sketchy at times. Along the ridge it’s class 3 climbing, and the crux is a crack in a steep rock with a dangerous fall behind you. That was probably the biggest adrenaline rush I’ve ever had.

Thankfully we were greeted by some friendly mountain goats on our descent.

Here’s a good video of the climb. The harder stuff starts about 9 minutes in.

https://youtu.be/CN5P4aRxnu0?si=O0MSyjB_RJTZ4fmj

Tidal is great but IIRC it either doesn’t support Amazon Echo or the integration is poorly implemented.

This chart would be more readable if the corruption perception index were explained by having the polarity of the scale labeled. I.e. is green “corrupt” or not?

By following the source link, it looks like green = “clean” and gray = “corrupt”.

Same. I also found that, for my usage, I wasn’t actually saving any money compared to the unlimited data plan.

Do you think Valve is going to start deleting accounts over 100 years old?

Yea it totally broke my Eternity client and I had to kill it and restart.

• pistachios
• kombucha
• daiginjo sake
• omakase sushi
• fried risotto balls
• duck (e.g. foie gras)
• filet mignon
• venison jerky

Thank you

Interesting! It’s possible your teacher was trying to keep things simple, especially since most English speakers probably couldn’t tell you what the subjunctive mood is.

I don’t think I learned about the subjunctive mood in Spanish class for 5 years, by which time I was in the 8th grade.

OP, thanks for asking. I feel seen.

1. Using the past tense instead of the subjunctive mood. “What if she was gone?” Nope. It should be “what if she were gone.” People (in the US) seem to get this wrong most of the time, except for a few common phrases like “If I were you, …”.
2. The words “whilst,” “amongst,” and “amidst.” I get that there is a certain history to these words, but I personally never use them as they seem like meaningless alterations. When I hear them, I roll my eyes, but I try not to judge too quickly.
3. “Irregardless”. It’s not a word.
4. “Could care less”. An oldie but a goodie?
5. Overuse of commas. I don’t like seeing them as strictly a way to introduce a pause in speech. Commas have specific grammatical purposes, and using them without such a purpose breaks my expectations as a reader.
6. Confusing “nauseous” and “nauseated”.

I know it’s not for everyone, but creating your own nix derivation for software that doesn’t exist yet on nixpikgs is not terribly difficult (for most things).

Can you really call Matrix “fediverse software” if it doesn’t implement ActivityPub and therefore doesn’t federate with the majority of Fediverse instances?

I haven’t noticed. Of course there is sponsored content in the UI. I haven’t noticed it in the “auto DJ”, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it exists to some extent.