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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов @vnikolov@ieji.de · Jul 18, 2026
Replying to @davetenny@hachyderm.io
Let me add several notes (but no spoilers): One part of the exercise is designing an approach to process sequences generically that can work with the Loop Facility. Dave Tenny's post upthread describes one possibility. Another part is in working out how to extend the Loop Facility itself so one can say (loop for x some-sequence ...) where coming up with a suitable keyword for the placeholder is a subpart of the exercise. Yet another part is thinking about the trade-offs involved in introducing such a subclause. This includes understanding how hardware and compiler technologies have changed in about half a century since the Loop Facility was first designed, so reasonable trade-offs have also changed. And a metanote repeating the well-known: the value of such exercises is in _doing_ them, not in obtaining the final result. #CommonLisp #ComputerProgramming #Lisp #ProgrammingLanguageDesign @davetenny@hachyderm.io
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Anthony @abucci@buc.ci · Jul 05, 2026
Re: https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116860157329810170 I realize this is beside the point, but personally I view the fact that code review is not considered interesting as a serious failure of computer science education. I'm invested in the latter, so it stands out for me. On the whole writers tend to love to read. I think they love it in part because their education led them to realize that learning to read well is both a good in itself and helps you become a better writer. Programming languages were designed to be human readable so that humans could read them. Yet we have a couple generations of people writing code most of whom were never explicitly taught how to read it, let alone learn to love reading it. #tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming #ComputerScience #ComputerScienceEducation
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
Replying to on social.vivaldi.net
@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net Taking the 'and' to be a logical operator, obviously 'No.' anded with anything is still 'No.'. Except in #Python, of course. (-: #ComputerProgramming #logic #QuestionHeadlines
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
Replying to @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
@dessalines@mastodon.social Quick suggestion, based upon having to explain to a relative that this was computer programmer jargon and did not have any connection to any ordinary meaning of the word 'toast': Change 'show toast on layout switch' to something like 'display the layout names when switching layouts'. @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk #ThumbKey #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming #Android
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
Replying to @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk I've seen it at work several times in my career. Unlike the relative, I recognized that this was jargon and knew where to look the jargon up. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts The setting actually is not actually developer oriented. It's aimed, like the "hide letters" setting, at people who know the tool and who can (or at least want to) get by without the visual aids. It's even something that I've directly experienced. Change layout multiple times to get to the desired point in the layout loop, and the names of all of the layouts passed through take significant time to all, one by one, flash on screen and disappear. #ThumbKey #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming #Android
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
Thumb-Key installed on a relative's 'phone. I didn't enable anything fancy, or enable the #MessageEase compatibility layouts. But I was explicitly asked to install Spanish and French alongside English. I made the relative make the layout switching gesture multiple times, so that it stuck. Otherwise I knew what the first panicked 'phone call would be. First panicked 'phone call: all of the letters have disappeared from the keyboard. There is a setting in the Thumb-Key settings called "Hide letters", and it had been switched on. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey/ There's another option called 'show toast' and is a prime example of programmers writing for programmers instead of for users. 'toast' is specialized Android developer jargon. Users won't know that it means showing the layout names for a brief period when one switches layouts. They'll be wondering what the Hell bread has to do with a keyboard. #ThumbKey #Android #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming
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