Notices by Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social), page 2

@nixCraft Corollary: Occasionally F something up so that people don't think you're omnipotent.

@nixCraft Well, crap, that means it hates all of us.

@nixCraft If kitteh had said Fortran instead, it might still have a shot at a coding job at my office. Even if it was all a fib.

@nixCraft Jeebus. I'm old enough to remember seeing this and having been notionally an adult at the time.

Good luck you millennials and Zs and alphas. Some of us are just too confused that time keeps on slipping by into the future.

@nixCraft Neither of those. Nor humor. Why am I following you? 🤷♂️

@nixCraft The best part of a poll like this is having no dog in the fight and just watching the e-violence that ensues.

(This toot does not condone animal fighting at all. Get real, you nerds.)

@nixCraft "Nearly half, 49.6 per cent, of all internet traffic came from bots last year." Based on what I see in my office website's logs, that seems... low.

@nixCraft sudo yum install food

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* Perl script invoked via a bash alias.

@nixCraft Does it also enforce a braces style? Because if not, you're right back to braces holy wars, assuming the coder adopts a consistent style.

@nixCraft Wrote my first couplee programs in RSTS BASIC-PLUS when I was in ninth grade. Learned on my own. No idea what documentation I might have learned from. It was fun writing code to do array stuff without knowing how to code arrays.

After that, three years of programming classes in 10th-12th grade. (My school district was ahead of its time.) Lots more BASIC-PLUS, some Fortran-77, some PDP assembler, etc. Have never taken a programming course since.

@nixCraft Writing school district financial software. Actually, I was probably helping upgrade the code. In BASIC-PLUS on RSTS/E on a PDP 11.

@nixCraft A data storage medium from which you very easily obtain the only copy of your dissertation 30 years in the future.

@nixCraft Sometime in the next few weeks is the 30th anniversary of when I downloaded MacHTTP and launched my first website. It's been downhill ever since.

@nixCraft 😱

@nixCraft It's probably already ming crypto. For someone.

@nixCraft I occasionally let the "Programming Perl" book out to play. Usually when the PerlMonks website is being coy.

@nixCraft I had that dream once when I was under anesthesia.

@nixCraft Time to start fixing those bugs that were in the yesterday's end-of--the-month release.

@nixCraft RSTS/E.