just looked at a HAML template for the first time in years and it’s just as unreadable as i remember. how did people ever prefer it over ERB
👋 hello, faces new and old! looks like its time for a new #introduction: i’m David (he/they), one of your friendly #XOXOZone admins 😄
🧑💻 i’m a staff software engineer, mostly working with Ruby/Rails
🍱 i’m a big foodie and tend to post about it a lot
☕️ i’m an amateur home barista
🎹 i’m a hobbyist musician, mostly just to relax these days (i used to play in a couple singer/songwriter/folk groups 🎺)
🎮 i like playing story-driven games
📚 i like reading fiction
nice to meet you all!
i’m not sure what i’m going to do yet, but you can follow me on Mastodon just in case. https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis
all i ask is: before you deactivate your account or leave, please drop a note on where to find you instead 😭
people have tried to create twitter alternatives multiple times. http://app.net ello, peach, mastodon, countless others… not enough people ever migrate for more than a few days. wish i could say this will make me quit twitter but i honestly don’t know where else i’d go https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1518367463645368320
came home to an egg bound chicken and none of us have any idea what we’re doing so that’s super cool
a man sat down near me at the bar and ordered dessert before dinner and i said “i like your style.” he looked me up and down and replied, “i like yours too! figuratively AND literally” and proceeded not to give me his number, leaving me confused and somewhat offended
i just want to be able to leave my house and not immediately have to hear people talking about clojure and complaining about function calls “with an arity of 9”. please. i am begging you all
this can’t have been an easy feature to implement. kudos to GitHub’s community/safety team! https://twitter.com/GHchangelog/status/1517234597997723651
stole this idea to have a “MySpace Top 8” section that i put at the top of my Slack channel list and it’s greatly improved my quality of life
okay heres my theory on the new Batman movie:
Gotham is actually just another one of Delos’ parks, like Westworld, where people can fantasize about playing criminal in a dreary, noir setting