Aaron Parecki

We generally think about language as a THING: letters, sounds, signs. But little bits of silence or invisibility are found surprisingly often in language.

Episode 23 of Lingthusiasm, the podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, is a tour through the various kinds of linguistic nothings 🎧💚🕳️

Listen here or on your favourite podcast app https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/23-when-nothing-means-something

#linguistics #podcasts #language

Twitter is like the 9-5 job you fucking hate.
Mastodon is like coming home, wrapping yourself up all nice and cozy in tinfoil and then getting in the microwave and blowing yourself up tae fuck

I want ActivityPub (and the likes) to evolve to a point where I can have something like @aaronpk has on his personal site as https://aaronparecki.com/aaronpk

@smith There are a few APIs. We're considering it! But also want to make sure any support for Mastodon stays true to what Micro.blog is about. Probably won't rush into anything until the dust settles.

Programming is great because you can just take that huge messy chuck from the middle of your function and hide it away under a new name in a new function and feel good about how you "cleaned up" the original function by abstracting the internals.

This is exactly how I used to clean my room as a kid - I'd refactor all the junk on the floor to be under my bed. Boom - problem solved.