monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-21,
of tabs and spaces

Daylily, Thursday, 21 May 12026 HE
2026-05-21 | 26E21 | 2026-141 | 2461182
2026-W21-4 | Q2 | Verano

fuzzy threads, San José, California

2013-09-15 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
fuzzy threads, San José, California

Idrissa Soumaoro & Ali Farka Touré – “Bèrèbèrè” ↗

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I stumbled across yet another “tabs versus spaces” discussion – and the consensus of the response all agreed with “tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment” – and the OP was having none of it, they had to have it explained to them, with examples, and they still wanted to argue – but what caught my attention was one of the ancillary points – “tabs are configurable” – whether you like 4 space indents, your partner likes C-style 8 space indents, or the intern likes 3 space indents, it’s just a matter of configuring the tab width in your editor – you can all work on the same code without having to have whitespace merges to argue about

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