Wow, apparently when you're authorizing a Github App with your account there's always a "[This app can] Act on your Behalf" permission that you have to agree too

Bro what??? I just want to add https://utteranc.es/ as a comment system on my blog ;_;

Fortunately it doesn't actually mean what it says. It just means that the app can do all the *other* listed permissions *in your name*. I think?

This wording has been criticized by multiple people but apparently GitHub will not fix it for some fucking reason. Great way to scare off literally every single person who want to comment on some random blog. Because there's so many of those in the first place..........

github will also ban you if you have multiple accounts

Real question here: what is your blog? Your blog needs retoor comments.

@whimsical shamelessly taking the opportunity to post my pseudo blog:

@lensflare" style="color: #54556e;">https://medium.com/@lensflare

Yes, I know, medium sucks.

@Lensflare I've read your first article about the type system. Have you seen how elegant python does it: pony, pani, schaap, *_ = fn() and the tuple automatically gets expanded and the fn returns more than three elements, it comes into the _ variable as array.

Btw, my swift bot works amazing. It doesn't have an issue my other bots have. It keeps the websocket beter alive because it probably does pings and pongs in seperate thread or something.

@whimsical yeah, that’s called destructuring, and of course Swift has it too :)

@whimsical Not online yet :P

Coming up with interesting things to write about isn't easy, and when I do then I'm too lazy to write about it lol

@12bitfloat for me it’s a bit different, I have a lot of interesting things that I‘d like to write about but my lazy ass refuses to do so 😅

@Lensflare I'm kinda in the same boat. When you're really invested with what you're doing it's annoying having to spend a day writing up an post instead of doing the really cool thing you're doing :P

@12bitfloat or when you have it in your head and it makes perfect sense but for an article you‘d need to spend time to think about how you phrase it and structure it properly so that it makes sense for the readers and conveys the same fascination to them that you have about this topic.

@Lensflare True! I'm actually half way done writing a post but I feel like I'm so bad at writing

It somehow feels both too terse with too little information but also rambly at the same time ;_;

you know what you wanna explain as a whole in your head, and as you explain each part tag/highlight the part in your head you explained, and then you know everything not tagged/highlighted still needs to get said somewhere

then you won't forget to say everything

then re arrange it after if it's really bad. though if you do this enough you'll realize patterns in your models and learn to automatically arrange as it comes out. or to whatever writing style people are into these days (like essays were supposed to be 3 paragraphs on each topic or some nonsense, with useless introductory sentences and conclusive sentences but I find that to be a useless bore)

writing code well seems far harder than writing human speech well

I never EVER use a 3rd party sign-on. E-mail or nothing. I wrote this back in 2018:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

So fuck Tailscale. They don't allow e-mail signup. They allow OAuth, but I could never get one working. It was to help a client of mine, as I've never needed Tailscale (I know how to setup my own Wireguard. It's dead simple, and doing basic port forwarding is much easier with iptables than with Tailscale's batshit insane JSON API configuration).

@jestdotty They will? I've always kept my work account and personal account separate. Every job I open a new Github account just for that job.

I've stopped using my personal one since they forced 2FA on it, so .. fuck them.

@djsumdog ye. I also have a work and personal one though both I don't use anymore

I ran into it on amethyst/NOSTR where someone wrote a talk they were gonna do on their GitHub and GitHub had banned the account before their talk. but it's in their terms and conditions and there's posts on reddit years back of people having issues with this. not sure how GitHub notices but ye