The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s 30

For the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had some cautiously optimistic words for us:

Against the backdrop of news stories about how the web is misused, it’s understandable that many people feel afraid and unsure if the web is really a force for good. But given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can’t be changed for the better in the next 30. If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web.

The IndieWeb movement, members of the Fediverse (like Mastodon), hybrid things like Micro.blog, and the increasingly numerous articles telling you to ditch Facebook and Google, own personal websites again, rediscover RSS feeds… they’re all trying to, indeed, push the web to be “better” in some way or another. Let’s hope something sticks.

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I’ve been ignoring Gutentags issues and PRs for a couple months (my OSS free time was consumed by other projects) but I think I’m now mostly caught up! Sorry for people who waited a long time. I have to get better at managing my time 😭

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It’s pretty funny and sad to me that Neovim was started (in part) to add asynchronous jobs to Vim, and then Vim8 added that too, and now it’s Neovim’s implementation that is giving me the most problems as a plugin author.

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I really hate that they’re doing this Lion King CGI remake — not only because it looks boringly and unimaginatively photorealistic, but also because it exists at all.

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Fun fact: it looks like I had been releasing new versions of Wikked last year without every pushing the code to Github or Bitbucket… it’s now done!

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“How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” micro-review: on par with the second movie, i.e. quite inferior to the (brilliant) first movie, but still enjoyable. Nice conclusion to the overall story, love the scenes with Ruffnut. B

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Captain Marvel was super fun, but prioritizing jokes over characters, and with many weaknesses in the story, it barely missed making it into my top third MCU movies. Solid Brie, cool tie-ins, nice kitty, and some impressive shots. B+

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One of humanity’s great mysteries is how to properly implement TypeDescriptionProvider.

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I’m kinda shocked: I installed a new graphics card and everything went well! No “shit, no more room on my motherboard" or “oh great the power supply died" or “drivers are fucked” or anything of the sort!

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