<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@gwidion" class="u-url mention">@<span>gwidion</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I approach them as writing a whole lot of inline unit tests with a dedicated syntax and much lower runtime overhead and reduced visual noise compared to writing out the equivalent assertions.</p><p>So you *are* writing them for the tooling, but that&#39;s the same situation as any style of automated testing (if the test runner can&#39;t run the test, why have the test?)</p>

<p>my take on recent regrettable events in the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a> kernel community. <a href="https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20241025-linux-maintainers-russian/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/2024</span><span class="invisible">1025-linux-maintainers-russian/</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I have *got* to learn this power. Someday...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>I liked Lemmy, for a while, then apparently it went shitty at least the instance I was on. Then controversy with authors. I liked the ability to have persistent structures and such.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Report back then! lol I&#39;m serious</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>all I needed was a reason to leave mastodon 👋</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tomjennings" class="u-url mention">@<span>tomjennings</span></a></span> i was thinking some other fedi software</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@wonka" class="u-url mention">@<span>wonka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@liampomfret" class="u-url mention">@<span>liampomfret</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I was not the one who put the character on the PCB (it was <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan" class="u-url mention">@<span>marcan</span></a></span>) but it is because of the catchphrase and also why not?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@liampomfret" class="u-url mention">@<span>liampomfret</span></a></span> You could just ask the designer, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mastodon.social/@whitequark</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span></p>