<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> On some level, I like the challenge of working with a questionable ad-hoc language, and doing meta-prog with string concatenation like a caveperson. Let me not start about gender for build systems - I have meeting in half an hour. 😅</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fontenot" class="u-url mention">@<span>fontenot</span></a></span> i think some of this shift is because texting is now the primary and oftentimes only method of communication, which means that both the sync and the async use cases get squished into it. nobody uses phone calls anymore, it&#39;s not a thing! so if you need an answer *right now* you still use telegram or whatever</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fontenot" class="u-url mention">@<span>fontenot</span></a></span> i would say it is contextual, like everything in life</p><p>like if you ask someone what their favorite ramen place is, it would be understood to be async</p><p>but if you tell someone they hurt you a lot and you don&#39;t know how to be in a relationship with them anymore, and they leave you on read... that&#39;s a different story</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <br />slut</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> catherine.</p>

<p>would i do it for money? yes, absolutely &gt;///&lt;</p>

<p>We doused both fore and main t&#39;gallants until the squall passed to leeward.</p>

<p>chat, i have a shameful little secret to admit</p><p>i kind of like writing CMake configurations. they&#39;re bad, but that&#39;s also the part that i enjoy</p>

<p>Keep a weather eye on the horizon!</p>