Deep (tan) state

Commit a bunch of perl cpan files with a ton of colons scattered liberally, and watch the fireworks

Knowledge fight latest episode #978 tends to agree with your assessment.

Leaning into the grift

People who do this are heroes!

I fully appreciate people who put themselves out like this, especially in subjects which don’t necessarily have a wider reach.

Thank you all, no matter your accent.

This feels like a winning strategy

… for now.

My wife says either I’m in IT or I work with computers.
I just say problem solver.

Very good point re. Braille readers. I was being flippant and did not think of that. My apologies. Tabs for indentation may be useful there. as would a blind-friendly pre- and post- processor for programming language specific files (a braille liner, could call it black-er for python :)

I don’t know how braille readers actuality work, but I guess they process a bytestream. How do they handle utf-16 and other non standard character sets? This is a known problem for a lot of systems- it would be interesting to know how they address it.

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