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Mark W. Gabby-Li

markgl@mstdn.plus

<p>Temporary Account for Phase One of Transfer to New Subdomain (Apologies for the extra follow notifications! Just one more time, in a month.)</p><p>Programmer and game developer.</p><p>Added vertical writing support to the Calibre eBook reader.</p><p>My current project is working on a new, simplified approach to creating programming languages that are written without the need for traditional grammars or parsing.</p>

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    I&amp;#39;m in very much a &amp;quot;no one likes or understands any of my ideas and things will never be the way I want them to be&amp;quot; kind of mood at the moment. Very frustrating!

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    What&amp;#39;s up with this recent commentary about the Fedi being the place for nuanced opinions? I may have nuanced opinions about some things, but I don&amp;#39;t have a nuanced opinion about *having* nuanced opinions. I think it&amp;#39;s sane! Not being able to understand or express nuance about at least some things is a failure to understand the complexity of the world, and if our public squares have no nuance, that&amp;#39;s a recipe for disaster. Not to say that all my opinions are nu...

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    One of the fundamental issues with web development is that people who make websites care very much about things being very precisely placed exactly where they want, imagining websites like printed work; a newspaper or a flyer, or even a piece of artwork. The thing is, web languages were developed from the very beginning without that as a design goal. They explicitly omitted precise layout *as a feature*. The results have been, naturally, a technical and architectural train wreck.

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    The real civilizational threats we face are the insatiable greed of billionaires and the endless growth demanded by the markets we have created, not language models becoming superintelligent, which is at best a fantasy and at worst an article of faith of a deranged silicon valley cult.

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    Well, it&amp;#39;s been about thirty days since step one of my migration, so I&amp;#39;ll be migrating to my home server very soon!