Dustin Hittenmiller @dusteh@mastodon.cloud

Dear British followers: DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE NOT VOTE TOMORROW. DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.

How can it be dead if Stallman can finally use it?

Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.

Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.

Federation/defederation is massive, because it's actually fulfilling the promise it made- distributed power. Multiple admins threatening to defederate a place can actually force the instance ot get its act together and use the moderation tools/softer power(admin tweets about what's acceptable, call outs, codes of conduct) to change the norms to be inline with the bloc of instances arguing.

If instance admins can listen to their residents (and residents can organise) we have somthing that looks like a usable representive democracy(modulo capital to run an instance, but here that's crowdfunded anyway?)

This is so fucking easy. Is what your making going to cause more harm than good? Then don't fucking do it! If you do it knowing it will hurt people you're saying "I'm willing to throw marginalized people under the bus pointlessly."

@nolan oooh this is very interesting

@nolan @halkeye I should really watch Black Mirror so I understand all these references that are floating around

I started a list of Clojure/ClojureScript peeps on the fediverse, so we can find each other. Please add yourself or your friends!

https://etherpad.net/p/Clojure_peeps_on_the_fediverse

#clojure #clojurescript #clj #cljs #lisp

Hi all!
I'm officially a free agent! If you're looking for a backend or full stack dev, let me know! My experience is primarily Ruby & Rails, but mostly I care about making stuff that solves real problems with awesome people who are empathetic and empowered. Let me know if that's your company!

a good post on handling nil values in #clojure
https://bsima.me/clog/robust-clojure-nil.html

@dusteh I kinda wonder if they have to give you a 1099