Asternova @ultranova@cybre.space

Python: There's only one way to do things, unless you really, really try hard. In which case you can totally misuse a function that returns local environment variables by making a function to map them into a dict

There are so many better ways to do this and... this isn't it buddy. That's not a good way to do that. Get help

That's not very heinous by itself, but then you get the typos and shit like the stuff in this image and just... wow.

Mastodon.py is INCREDIBLY bad code. Like holy shit. So many instances of:

params = {}
params['foo'] = 'bar'

when you can just do

params = {
'foo': 'bar'
}

We are rewriting the most essential parts of Mastodon.py so that we can write a mastodon-backup utility that doesn't repeatedly hammer the database until requests time out, even with --pace

Taking pure unfiltered psychic harm from the assumptions others make during online discussions

Boobs.

oh, I happened to do delete first? well now it's -a to delete and you'll be grateful for it!

virgin: something something semantically meaningful option letters

chad: just labels them alphabetically based on the feature implementation timeline

Being a developer is being too tired and exhausted to code something that you want

But then doing manual surgery on an epub at 4am because you can't get to sleep, your epub reader doesn't support custom fonts but /does/ support embedded fonts, and you just want the ability to read it using Atkinson Hyperlegible so you don't have to squint at the bloody thing all night

Thanks, Calibre