MrMcDowall

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Dec 7

I am a Scottish ex-patriot, living and working from a small island outside Vancouver, Canada. I have been a CTO, Development Manager, Team Lead, Senior Developer, Lead Developer, Developer and shit kicker. It's all just the same, I do whatever maximizes shipping awesome. I am available for hire on a remote basis.

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Comment · 1 year ago

I'm a solo dev working on what started out as an interstitial journalling tool, but is now morphed into a local first native set of tools for thinking and writing. Tools for the end of the internet, you might say.

Current version is over at https://owl.so but the local first native app (Owl/2) is about to hit beta real soon.

Comment · 2 years ago

Lol like ordinary programmers have a such a great ethical reputation... Cambridge Analytica, Ad Platforms, and on and on.

Comment · 3 years ago

There's a lot of 'just' handwaving here about compiling without telemetry. We just need to look as far as VSCode, which is riddled with unremovable telemetry, and the entire project of VSCodium which has to exist to provide telemetry free versions, and still cannot remove all of it. You're discounting the complete waste of human time and effort required to undo something that should simply not exist in the first place.

In terms of the open GH issues, people are pretty vocal about which ones they think are most important to fix, as is the case for most popular projects. It's simply not true that the Go team have no way of knowing which of the open issues are most important to the community.

Comment · 3 years ago

Do you have source on item #2? I've been looking for some to back this point, but can't find any.

Comment · 4 years ago

The last time I looked into the state of the art when writing web apps in Clojure, people were hand crafting SQL statements in the data layer, and the community seemed fine with this. Have things improved?

Comment · 5 years ago

Yeah, Elixir is great, but zealots keep acting like it's happening, and it is totally not happening.

Comment · 5 years ago

There's Obsidian for those that want their notes to stay local, or at the very least decide if you want your information flying around the Internet: http://obsidian.md/

Comment · 5 years ago

In the video below, he mentions they are gas powered driers.

Comment · 6 years ago

The desire to know is usually in proportion to the unexpectedness. Perhaps its an evolutionary curiosity (Avoid how they died)?