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whitespace enforcer

Europe
Joined October 2007
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my game face fails me
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I must not produce complexity. Complexity is the mind-killer. Complexity is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
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grateful to my phone's powerful flashlight as my late-dusk walk in the woods is interrupted by a massive tree, itself a recent storm victim
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OH: "the more I see of Ruby, the more I dislike the syntax - seems very grawlix-y" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grawl… #QFT
experiencing Kotov syndrome (though one might argue that's a permanent state for me)
once again taking flak for expressing my desire to opt out nitter.gq/ginatrapani/status/143… #misguidedRituals
"What do you want for Christmas?" "The ability to disagree with the premise of that question without being dismissed as a killjoy."
is anyone aware of a sensible, modern Web Developer's Manifesto? (e.g. "Use POSH! Do Progressive Enhancement! Screw Excessive Enhancement!")
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experiencing reductionist's regret as the fix for my minimal test case fails to apply to the actual code (my fault, not the MTC principle's)
suspecting accidental or involuntary Po-210 ingestion
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OH: "it's not about the pizza, it's about the simple-mindedness"
apparently occasional wiki gardening made me the resident documentation nazi
walking into the office to find @tillsc using @psd's flickr.com/photos/psd/114552… to express his feelings about XML #smallWorld
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I guess it's not just excessive enhancement that bums me out but the idea of a compiled web. It limits addressability, reuse, discovery, etc
oh, how I miss the sanity of Python
gulping down fluids in an effort to stave off an oncoming cold - clearly I need to further reduce human contact
begging Hades to release me from JavaScript event hell
"[@TiddlyWeb]'s reflective - minimal and transparent and consistent and and self-contained - similar to LISP programs" groups.google.com/group/tidd…
how FOSS communities are supposed to work: groups.google.com/group/tidd… - once again @anticdent impresses by cogently articulating what matters
I'm no longer allowed to approach the vicinity of stairs without protective gear
I'm not often content with myself, but replacing inscrutable magic with a transparent alternative does provide some pleasant relief
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