Pablo Brasero @pablobm@nitech.online

If you have any questions about #Nigeria feel free to ask me.

My qualifications: I'm Nigerian - from the East, lived in the Middle Belt, the North, and in the West. I'm a Christian Igbo, grew up with Muslim Hausas, married to a Christian-Muslim Yoruba. I speak a bit of Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.

I don't expect you to know much about Nigeria, so I won't consider anything you ask to be stupid, ignorant or racist.

#AMA

My new favourite Ruby debugger commands are:

* `break @foo.bar` (break if `bar` is called on the object `@foo`)
* `catch Foo` (break if `Foo` is raised)
* `watch @foo` (break if the variable `@foo` changes)

All three can be followed by `if:` to only break if a condition is true

STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT

* CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR

* YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT

* Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.

"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

Ambition
Bonus panel: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ambition-2
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

people always apologise for things like ‘I recognise this was offensive’ when the actual issue with what they’ve said is it’s factually inaccurate and practically harmful

Introducing Masto Reader. Like Thread Reader App, but for Mastodon.

How does it work? Mention @mastoreaderio(@mastodon.social) anywhere in a thread and say "unroll" and the little bot will do the rest.

Here's an example (that takes a bit to load for reasons)

https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.gamedev.place%2F%40badlogic%2F111071396799790275

You can share those links with others.

Links to the crappy source code can be found in the bot's profile.

Everything runs in your browser. The server doesn't log anything either.

Enjoy and spread the word.

The SI standard measurement for setting fire to a pile of money should be the Musk.

Large at first glance, when broken down, it is quite reasonable for daily use.

1 Musk = $44 Billion. Useful for government level mistakes. Brexit costs the UK 2.8 Musks/yr

1 millimusk = $44,000,000. Southwest's holiday meltdown cost 20 millimusks.

1 micromusk = $44,000, business level or bad personal decision mistakes like wrecking a car

1 nanomusk = $44, good for day to day crappy decisions

#musk

Ontologically¹, Jewish holidays are classified as some combination of the following three descriptors:
► They tried to kill us
► We survived
► Let's Eat
► TREES!

As you can see, half of the holidays include "let's eat" (also, point of fact: half of these holidays are also "they tried to kill us"—not mutually exclusively). Understandably, Sophie prefers these.

¹not canonical

"I'm rich enough, why should my kids get free school meals?"

1) Universal provision means for the price of giving food to your kids who "don't need it", kids who need it definitely get it. No barriers. No forms. No questions or tests.

2) Your kids won't bully the "free meal kids".

3) You have an interest in ensuring that your kids are not just fed but fed well. This means you won't put up with the "poor kid gruel" that you might campaign for to "save money" if you're not using the service.

Dear fedi, I have a domain I'm not going to renew because it is useless to me, but I'd prefer to transfer it to someone who'll use it for something rather than let it become an auction commodity as they often do.

The domain is left.media, and it expires in a month. If in that period nobody contacts me, I will let it lapse. If you want it, let me know at least in broad terms what you plan to do with it.

I'm old. How old? So old that I still can't bring myself to put a space in a filename.

And whose fault is that?

Though it's tempting to get out the world's tiniest violin when Sam Bankman-Fried complains about his peanut butter sandwiches, it should make you wonder: if even he can't have his basic needs met in jail, what about the less privileged?

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-frieds-jail-conditions

#SBF #FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency #PrisonersRights

"Spinster" denoted an unmarried woman who spun wool. Highly skilled spinsters were paid enough to afford not to marry. Despite later applied derogatory connotations, it's original meaning included independent women who rejected marriage and male partners entirely.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-did-spinster-and-bachelor-come-180964879/

#spinning #spinster

photo: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-did-spinster-and-bachelor-come-180964879/

In HTML, don't use `type="number"` use `type="text" inputmode="numeric"` instead.

`number` silently restricts input, `inputmode` provides the number keyboard on mobile without any of the downsides.

Error messages are far more helpful than input restriction - this goes for `maxlength` too

#frontend #html #accessibility