"All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
An Octavia Butler gem: www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/o...
Mary Oliver on the creative aspect of habit www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/20/m...
Note to myself:
Life is too short to waste with null pointer exceptions, undefined is not a function, ...
Just use Elm for the frontend.
absolutely wild that "i think we should think about the environmental costs of things" is met with "your ignorance and anti-AI bias is showing" like what the fuck are we doing here?
Bahn jour, no? π
Doing some writing on things I've been noticing about AI. Plenty of people have said plenty about it, but I wanted to add my own voice to the mix.
www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/dont-re...
#blog
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
George Saunders's wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
Elm-review is AWESOME!! π€©
package.elm-lang.org/packages/jfm...
In which elm-review gets the best-in-class automatic removal for unused parameters.
jfmengels.net/removing-unu...
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletterβundistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
Culture sways coding
Hedy clears language blockers
Felienne finds tribe
Elm Town 88 β Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans:
youtu.be/rCl4YgVTeUk
elm.town/episodes/elm...
Thanks to @felienne.bsky.social for coming to Elm Town!
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
"integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer". What a great way to say this. π
Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because sheβs always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering wonβt come, but itβll never be because you abandoned yourself. Thatβll keep you going.
From machine to mob,
a learning environmentβ
start-up, air, guitar.
Elm Town 87 β Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard:
youtu.be/D3-shZomLF8
elm.town/episodes/elm...
A graph of monthly solar generation in the US
Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
Be the strange you want to see in the world.
Hey Zed folks, you might have to run a check for updates. Auto-update was accidentally disabled. πΆ
github.com/zed-industri...
Decode thoughts for growth;
Connect and share; exampleβ
β³ JoΓ«l's Triangle
Elm Town 86 β Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with JoΓ«l Quenneville:
youtu.be/DyjKmk9PzwA
elm.town/episodes/elm...
What would Webster's look like if it were made today? Would it be AI-generated from social media? Wiktionary might approach it. But for some reason, I think of the copious jungle in Urban Dictionary; however, Urban Dictionary is clearly mob-made, suffering from info pollution.
Additionally, it comprises several language dictionaries: French, Spanish, German, and Italian; a thesaurus; a "Book of Familiar Quotations"; a "Rhyming Dictionary"; a "Music Dictionary"; and more. I enjoy the physical reference, but now I want a copy of that OG Webster's dictionary.
It contains a modern, "wrong" dictionary which includes the preface "This book is not published by the original publishers of WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY, or by their successors". π
Fertile discovery! Thanks for sharing. I keep a 3β³-deep Webster's New Encyclopedia of Dictionaries from 1992, given to me when I must've been a pre-teen, over 30 years ago. One kid puked on it at a high school party; a bit of discoloration, but no significant damage.
A couple of months ago, I went to Elm Camp, which I wrote about here: jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-camp.... In the Community section, I quip a bit about where Elm "happens" for me.
I use Elm every day for work and play. At work, I use it to build the Logistically transportation management system. I talk with folks about it on Elm Town; and elm-pages drives the elm.town site. Personally, I use it to run my website.
More details about core development at elmcraft.org/lore/elm-cor..., including how Elm core dev works and what Evan is working on. Also see the cheeky iselmdead.info site.
Re: the lack of recent changes to core Elm languageβthere's nothing I need to use it; there's nothing broken I need fixed. The lack of changes means it's stable; I can focus on building, not upgrading; @wolfadex.bsky.social and I talked about it here: elm.town/episodes/elm....
