tyil

@tyil@fedi.tyil.nl

Free Software Enthusiast. Running a blog and cookbook on https://www.tyil.nl/.

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icedquinn, to random
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anyone have opinions about this? https://nestedtext.org/en/latest/index.html

tyil,

@icedquinn After having checked for 5 seconds, it looks like a worse version of , made by someone who loves just a little too much.

tyil,

@icedquinn You can still make something worse than YAML even when your spec is smaller.

icedquinn, to random
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choose your suffering

tyil,

@icedquinn What if I don't want to suffer?

icedquinn, to random
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unMXQTSQEak
> 34 keys are all you need
> now input these weird-ass chords and timing games

my blob in crepes

tyil,

@icedquinn I mean, I use a 36-key layout right now, and it works pretty well. You do need to get used to it, it's a very different way from full-size keyboard, but I actually very much prefer it.

icedquinn, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY26QDUn9dE :blobcatwhatsthis: another quinn

tyil,

@icedquinn Pretty nice song, but the band doesn't appear yet on MusicBrainz so I can't add them to my music indexer to track future releases 😭

icedquinn, to random
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the rent/leasing thing for hardware is something i've thought about

not from the weird 'you will own nothing' fetish. i came at it from trying to figure out why capitalism punishes doing a good job.

ex. if kinesis sells you one keyboard built like a tank, they only get one sale, and eventually its just like rip everyone has one and you die.

i think that's what happened to DataHand actually. DHs were very expensive, but built like absolute fucking tanks*.

  • injection molded plastic, but the mechanisms are just magnets to hold parts in place and light sensors for actuations, so they effectively don't break at all until the diodes die after like 17 years of service.
tyil,

@icedquinn

why capitalism punishes doing a good job.

I'd argue it's not capitalism punishing that, its greed.> if kinesis sells you one keyboard built like a tank, they only get one sale, and eventually its just like rip everyone has one and you die

If I get 7 billion people to purchase my product, and I only have a 1c profit margin on this, I still made more money than I know how to spend in a sane manner. You're already set for life at this point, you did a good job.

However, being set for life isn't good enough for many people once they get a taste of wealth, and they just want to keep hoarding more and more. Its greed that keeps them going, and greed is never satisfied.

tyil,

@icedquinn Let's be honest, though, most companies are filled mostly with people that get paid for not doing all that much. Companies in general also have a much higher profit margin than 1c, so they make quite a bit of money. Most of that money they make is spent on feeding the greed of the executives, not so much to actually build a better product or improve the income of the average employee.

Companies are more than one person, but companies made of greed generally fill the pockets of only a very tiny group of people. They didn't need higher profits to begin with, its only greed talking.

icedquinn, to random
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tinkering with Just.

one nice thing about yaml (taskfile, lets-cli) is having fields for metadata. i mean its yaml (argh) but having metadata fields is something every format should have.

Just's main gimmick is looking like a makefile without having the baggage of GNU Make. Which means metadata has to be shimmed in with convention and weird syntax.

:blobcatphoto: why not just use mk?

Y'know. I thought a few times about writing a mk clone in Nim. :neocat_thonk: its a program that is pretty swag but i feel like writing make tools is one of those rite of passage tasks some people do but are ultimately nonsense work.

tyil,

@icedquinn Makefiles have their drawbacks, but they seem to be very widely supported, which is a huge benefit. Last time I looked at it seemed okay in theory, but being supported almost nowhere makes it kind of useless to support in existing projects right now. The benefit it gives you over existing makefiles seems to be pretty negligible.

tyil,

@icedquinn It being in repos does help, but what I mean with "supported" is that its actually being used anywhere, going into any project and using it without having to add several extra dependencies to the project.

The nice thing about Makefiles is that its already installed on pretty much every system used by any half-seasoned developer, and on machines that run tasks for projects. You can generally add a to a project without introducing a new dependency, because make was already installed or indirectly depended on by all systems used with it.

I don't think is that big of an improvement to justify adding a big dependency to many projects, and this means it probably won't get the adoption to compete against make. It'll be fine to use it for smaller scale use, though.

icedquinn, to random
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this trackball is silky af :blobcatcontroller:

tyil,

@icedquinn Post a 20 min review vid. Trackballs are vastly underrepresented in modern use, even though they are top comf.

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