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Young-career me: who has time for languages with strong typing? Mature-career me: who has time for languages without strong typing?

@sean@scoat.es @markstory@mastodon.social type inference also helps a lot here. You get strong, static typing without having to specify. That wasn’t widely available until the mid-2000s.

🎶Oops! I did it again I woke up at 7 When I could sleep in🎶

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Attached: 1 image Two years later. Want to know one of the major reasons Mastodon didn't catch on with journalists and large website owners? It is *invisible* in referrer statistics. Here's my blog from the last month. BlueSky now sends me more traffic than Bing. How much traffic does Mastodon send? It is impossible to know due to the "noreferrer" header in all links. (I'm not saying your privacy isn't important. But you can't build a community if no-one knows you exist.)

I want to give you this hadith, as reworded by my friend: "If you're planting a flower and you look up to see that the world is ending, finish planting the flower."

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Attached: 1 image Hello, world. This is Arlo, the 6yo #beagle. He has officially joined the Brasseur family as of this afternoon, by way of a local rescue agency. Please welcome him to the fediverse! #DogsOfMastodon #Dogstodon #AdoptNotShop