Today is a good day to honour all the good things the labour movement, and labour unions, have done for humanity.

Humane treatment of employees, workers having some free time every day and the weekends off, wages they can live on and support their family, and generally not being worked to death.

The two foundations of computer science are math and logic.

The two foundations of sofware engineering are copy and paste.

The two foundations of the software business are bullshit and burnout.

(Obviously this is a joke. Software engineering doesn't exist.)

Implicit type conversions in C are really handy and also really handy for making mistakes.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2018/01/09/on_using_github_and_a_pr_based_workflow/

I tried PRs and I didn't like it.

@federicomena I've recently found that Magit for Emacs makes this easier (compared to git one command line).

"Boring" seems like a compliment to those doing ops for production systems, or who write code for such.

@cwebber Would you say it's hard, difficultt, challenging, or misc?