Adam @cthulahoops@grurple.org

http://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/

programming languages personified; it's old but classic

if the Bajorans had a name for Deep Space 9 other than "Terok Nor," the show never lets us know about it. I wonder if during the meetings leading up to the Federation taking over administration of the station, the name "Deep Space 9" was chosen *by* the Bajorans, drawing on Federation procedure, as a strategy to replace the emotionally charged name of what was essentially a labor camp with something more bureaucratic and anodyne?

One of my audience lingers after I have finished my story.
"I missed the start, where's that from?"
"Nowhere, I made it up myself," I reply.
He looks baffled. "Is that allowed?"
In some other reality I am cool; say "No" and walk away.
In this, I open my wallet. "I have a permit."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

They left handprints on the cave wall.
They wrote their names in cuneiform, in ogham, in runes and glyphs and letters.
To say: I was here.
I exist.
#AnIrishWorldCon

It's a great time to read Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air, an easy to read book asking if/how we can stop using fossil fuels. There are great ballpark estimates, which make the huge numbers instantly understandable. Free pdf. https://withouthotair.com/

twitter being down is no big deal they can just use the other instances

I now run a service which helps you diagnose slow queries in PostgreSQL. It makes a diagram from the query planner output, helping you see which bit is slow.
https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/06/dbplanview.html #postgres #sql

"Tell a story!"
"There once was, on distant Earth-"
"No, a real story!"
"Hush. Earth was real, and full of children asking for stories, just like you."
"Really?"
"Really. They looked different, back then, but they, too, loved stories."
"So they were people?"
"They were people."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Here's an interesting perspective: Code Is Not Literature http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

It addresses a puzzle:

> [So many programmers say], “People should read code” but few people seem to actually do it. I’d be surprised if I interviewed a novelist and asked them what the last novel they had read was, and they said, “Oh, I haven’t really read a novel since I was in grad school.” Writers actually read other writers but it doesn’t seem that programmers really do, even though we say we should.

Where is the most average bus stop in the UK? https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/03/average-bus-stop.html