Limestone, Wednesday, 7 January 12026 HE
2026-01-07 | 26A07 | 2026-007 | 2461048
2026-W02-3 | Q1 | Inverno
2015-08-27 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
coral on concrete, Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i
Plastic Ono Band & John Lennon – “Working Class Hero” ↗
recent Mastodon threads talking about “clean code” and eventually leading to talking about “failing gracefully” – I ran into this early on when comparing Linux to Windows – Linux programmers were more willing to accept that their program was something “in progress” and thus were more likely to print out useful error messages – I even have vague memories of one chat program that spat out which line in the config file needed to be changed
in contrast, Microsoft Windows itself assumes that the shipped product is the final form – all debugging is disabled, error messages spit out a hash code (now a QR code) that’s only means anything to tech support – user forums were full of people trying to find fixes for intermittent problems – you had better luck consulting an astrology table, most of the “fixes” had more in common with cargo cult that with repairing
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