Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

If you find your mastodon experience too political, too meme-y, too science-y, or just not interesting enough, choose who to follow more carefully. Unfollow some people who fill your timeline with boring stuff; it's not a personal judgement, and you'll still see it if one of your friends boosts their toot. And follow someone who posts the sort of thing you like. Check out hashtags from their cool posts.

Most of all, post the sort of thing you'd like to see more of!

#mastocat

tfw you've been tasked with writing the obituary for someone who, by all accounts, was just a total and utter turd in human skin

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/25/norman-stone-obituary

If anyone with Unix skills (and preferably some development skills as well, but not really a requirement) wants a job, my employer has some openings right here in Singapore. You don't need to live in Singapore to apply.

This cute paper provides a tool!

It deliberately tries software with bad configuration values, and inspects the errors produced. If they don't contain text relating to the bad key or value (based on NLP analysis), the error message could probably be improved.

How good are your error messages? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that told you if your error messages were unhelpful?

Proactive Detection of Inadequate Diagnostic Messages for Software Configuration Errors https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/inadequate-diagnostics-issta2015.pdf