@maple good friend
New on the Secret Area: One of my regrettable purchases, the e-Reader and the various cards I owned for it.
Likes and shares appreciated!
https://youfoundasecret.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/nintendo-ereader-card-collection/
programming vent
@maple the main idea is that there's no "state" in functional programming—everything is just inputs and outputs, and the same inputs always make the same outputs. this makes it easier to do analyses of the program (to prove correctness or to disallow bugs or etc), so it's very popular in science. Not really useful for the web and pretty much impossible to use for gamedev. You *can* do it in JS if you want to but there's no real benefit.
Prime Day strike
The 16th of July is Amazon Prime Day, and JUST SO HAPPENS to be the same day many of their workers are planning to strike for better conditions/wages. Many people are expanding this to other Amazon-run websites as well!
While it's great if you can safely do so, if someone has i.e. a friggin' contract with Twitch for streaming, don't be an ogre and claim they're Part Of The Problem because they can't take a day off from what might be their only source of income, you dingus.
An interview with Rebecca Sugar, creator of #StevenUniverse:
https://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-07-09/the-mind-behind-americas-most-empathetic-cartoon/114886/
She talks about how the Gems are coded as female but are nonbinary, and explicitly says she is a nonbinary woman herself. It legit brought happy tears to my eyes.
@nyanuri had a switch launch title that was ok
then this third party developer did an homage to it that looks really really good
https://twitter.com/NinSwitchNews/status/1014198273953841152
Liberapay is in trouble, here's our blog post that explains the situation and what you should do if you're one of our 2000 active users: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-is-in-trouble-b58b40714d82
@InfiniteNutshell okay but how many lives have I personally ruined
Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie