Apropos of nothing, I put the bi pride flag colours in my shell prompt. I don't actually have anything to show in those segments, mind

Guess who got to the polling station and _then_ remembered he needed to take photo ID? Luckily it's a nice day for two walks to the polling station. 😆

I voted Green, obviously.

No photo of my bike at the polling station; as I said, I walked. \o/

Don't mind if I do! #BikesAtPollingStations

@dan https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang makes a fair point about the #golang hashtag, and that makes more sense to me

@dan You mean the language came after the game? I mean, I realise that, but it doesn't explain people saying "Ziglang" or "Odinlang". OK, maybe Odin. And Zig if we're talking all your base... But, but... it still annoys me! 😂

@dan But is that a self-fulfilling thing, where you can't search for "concurrency in Go" because everyone's titled their pages "concurrency in Golang" :D It doesn't overly bother me, but I must admit to some minor annoyance. The old golang.org domain didn't help that one though =)

@dan Maybe (although I would search for "D programming language" not "Dlang" for example, and I don't know how many people would default to the x-lang construction), but when they're speaking in a YouTube video though?

Why do people insist of calling programming languages "-lang"? "Golang" (Go), "Dlang" (D), "Ziglang" (Zig), "Erlang" -- OK, I'll give them that one. But still...

@sarajw Yuletide greetings! Feels like a Jethro Tull kind of day

@sarajw I also left the Scouts due to the "do my duty to God and to the Queen" stuff (as well has being made to go to church parade). I can't bring myself to sing the UK national anthem either (not just because of God, but I'm a republican as well) 😂

@sarajw Nice!

I turned my back on Christianity when I was about 11 or so and started questioning why I believed it (it was just because that's what I'd been told). I've described myself as atheist, but probably more agnostic or humanist now.

As for tribes, Usenet/newsgroups were the thing for me in the mid 90s. Then online FPs gaming. I made friends I've known for more than quarter of a century now through playing videogames.

I miss when Twitter was so small and uncommon we had local meetups

2023 mince pie season started early. Current tally: 3

This week I learnt that people deep fry turkeys. It feels like the time I found out that the Christingle was a thing.

I was thinking, does every programming language, API or SDK etc. have at least one book that "everyone" knows or understands which book is meant by something other than its given title?

I'm thinking K&R, Stroustrup, Petzold, the camel book.

I guess Petzold isn't a great example as the book people think of would vary by generation (for me it's Programming Windows 3rd edition), although I suppose it's still ostensibly about the same thing.

#IdleThoughts

Annoyingly, BBC /news/av/ pages don't seem to update the browser history when they auto-play the next video. The URL changes, but it doesn't get reflected. Just noticed when it happened while I was reading the text below the video and tried to go back to the one I was watching. A bit of a UX failure there.

@collinsworth is this where I admit to never having used React? I did update our build from Gulp to esbuild last week though, so that's progress I think!

@sarajw

MPA-pah, MPA-pah, that's how it goes
MPA-pah, MPA-pah, everyone knows
They all suppose what they want to suppose
When they hear MPA-pah!

It's right up there with Chat Gippity!

@mamund I was all ready to make a snarky comment about HATEOAS and how most "RESTful" APIs are not at all, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the article mention it and Carson Gross' essay on the topic. It's a lost battle, of course, but it's reassuring to be reminded that some people know the truth :D

@sarajw Me too! Love a bit of Evita or Bugsy Malone (it counts!). I was nearly in the King and I (well, I auditioned at the Palladium in the 70s...)

The term "hockey stick" (as in "our app hockey sticked" or "hockey stick graph") just started to make a lot more sense when I realised they mean an ice hockey stick, not a field hockey stick 😂