Toots for akosma@mastodon.online account

Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-02-04 at 07:49

"One of the things that I missed the most when moving from Argentina to Switzerland in 1991 wasn’t the meat, nor the alfajores, nor the dulce de leche, but the humble bidet in every bathroom."

https://akos.ma/blog/use-a-bidet/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-02-03 at 18:48

I've just discovered GIFAANISQATSI and there goes my evening

https://www.monkeon.co.uk/gifaanisqatsi/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-02-02 at 16:10

Just bought my copy! https://mastodon.social/@alexobenauer/113929932824652396

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-30 at 12:31

Meeting minutes or it didn't happen.

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-29 at 20:29

"Newspaper columns should be controversial, rubbing some people the wrong way, because the main point is to get people to rethink their assumptions."

Yes.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-27 at 20:49

@dimsumthinking quotation found by pure chance on Wikipedia :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEdit

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-27 at 20:48

"For the most part, there's nothing here that couldn't be done with BBEdit or even with Emacs or vi. jEdit packages the capabilities much more nicely and makes it easy to call often-used functionality using the plug-ins. Where I saw NetBeans as overkill, others may see jEdit as underkill for an IDE or overkill for a text editor. I find it Mac friendly and easy to use."

@dimsumthinking , writing about the jEdit editor on MacDevCenter, April 16th, 2002

https://web.archive.org/web/20071210070613/http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/04/16/osx_java.html?page=2

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-26 at 10:09

Almost 15 years earlier, the cover of the February 1992 BYTE Magazine celebrated Apple's adoption of the PowerPC CPU architecture, leaving behind the Motorola 68k family.

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-26 at 09:32

"The best software is software that is hand-crafted by artisan programmers–DDJ's bread and butter. Handcrafted has always been a synonym for the best in any category. It has also been true that, historically, while an artisan class (in any trade) was being loudly praised and greatly revered, it was also being systematically eliminated in favor of some type of mass production technology."

Ron Copeland, senior editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal, in an editorial featured in the November 1988 issue.

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-25 at 22:02

Cover of the November 2006 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, featuring a headline praising the completion of Apple's move towards Intel CPUs.

The introduction of the first iPhone was just 2 months away.

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-24 at 18:24

"As Dylan sang, “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” Right now, it’s telling the American public to go fuck itself."

https://www.profgalloway.com/america-for-sale/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-20 at 18:04

"To begin with, Objective-C 3.0 would have made header files entirely optional, and if you didn’t provide one, they’d be automatically generated from the implementation file. Just write your *.m files and save."

https://akos.ma/blog/what-objective-c-3.0-could-have-been/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-20 at 11:58

So apparently it's Blue Monday today.

So here's Blue Monday to prevent its effects. Play it loud.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6hHc7Pks7wtBIW8Z6A0iFq

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-20 at 10:59

I’ve been recommending this talk a lot lately to people new to the art of speaking, who find themselves all of a sudden boosted to the front stage of an event and in dire need of help.

https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-speak-by-patrick-winston/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-20 at 06:38

"Netscape didn’t contain any NCSA Mosaic code, but several key developers of NCSA Mosaic went to Netscape, where they used what they learned at NCSA to build a better browser. Internet Explorer started out as a somewhat customized version of Spyglass Mosaic, which was a direct descendant of NCSA Mosaic and contained some NCSA Mosaic code. Without Mosaic, we wouldn’t have have had the two leading browsers of the browser wars."

https://dfarq.homeip.net/ncsa-the-unsung-hero-of-internet-history/

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Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski on 2025-01-19 at 11:05

"The exact definition of what makes an OOP language "pure" varies slightly depending on the perspective of the computer scientist. Meyer notes, "'Object-oriented' is not a boolean condition: environment A, although not 100% OO, may be 'more' OO than environment B". C++ creator Stroustrup dismisses the concept of purity as an inference that any language that implements non-OO features (…) is less robust than one that adheres strictly to the OO paradigm."

http://jackmyers.info/docs/ObjectOrientedImplementationApproaches.pdf

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