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1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2018 10:53:51 UTC Tomas SA2TMS

   • tuttle
   @tuttle One always finds one's burden again. But the webdevs teaches us the higher fidelity that negates standards and reinvents RPC. They too conclude that all is well. This fediverse henceforth without a master seems to them neither sterile nor futile. Each Atom process on their computers, each line of redundant work written on those star-filled nights, in themselves, forms a world. The struggle itself toward reimplementation is enough to fill their hearts. One must imagine webdevs happy.
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 04:07:51 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • unsupervised web developer
     @meredithmatthews @tomas
     
     Think positive!
     
     Celebrate the fact that they didn't also add ini, toml and yaml files, and a configuration DSL in Python and/or Ruby.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 04:09:12 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     • unsupervised web developer
     @tomas @meredithmatthews
     
     (all of which are in isolation perfectly valid choices of configuration file format!)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 04:40:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • unsupervised web developer
     @meredithmatthews If there is boilerplate, generating it is generally not a problem, I believe. I haven't used yeoman.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 05:01:07 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • unsupervised web developer
     @meredithmatthews Ideally if you have a high-level abstraction that can generate a lower-level abstraction, it would be better if you could work with that high-level abstraction. Especially if the generation is a one-off and then you're stuck working in the lower level.
     
     Is that what you mean?
     
     Of so I agree, but I also believe in Worse is Better, and so I think even one-off generators are better than not having generators, and that they could act as a guide toward what that higher-level abstraction should be.
     
     
     Of course, in the real world, the generator can act as a force that stops that higher-level abstraction from ever happening, because hey, we've got our crappy generator, so just get on with adding shiny bloated features elsewhere.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 05:01:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • unsupervised web developer
     @ayy @tomas @meredithmatthews Not on my watch.