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    offby1 avatar offby1 3 months ago | link | on: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

    I’m amused by the reactions to this. Code formatting is the least interesting problem in programming, and one of the most easily automated. Props to Łukasz for this; I may not agree with every choice, but I agree that the choices should be made once and once only, and then just … used.

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      isagalaev avatar isagalaev 3 months ago | link

      Totally agree with you on principal!

      But it’s such a prolific topic for fun, pointless banter! :-) So why not? :-)

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      stevelord avatar stevelord 5 months ago | link | on: a bot for mirroring Twitter accounts on Mastodon

      I would much prefer a Mastodon -> Twitter mirror that auto-splits posts and replies to the origin. Has anyone seen such a thing?

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        singpolyma avatar singpolyma 5 months ago | link

        It’s not for Mastodon yet (they don’t support the needed standards) but I use http://brid.gy to do this

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          offby1 avatar offby1 5 months ago | link

          I use Moa to do just that.

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            Yogthos avatar Yogthos 5 months ago | link

            It would be trivial to tweak the bot to go the other way. It already handles talking to both Twitter and Mastodon APIs, so you could follow Mastodon timeline instead, and then post from it to Twitter.

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            offby1 avatar offby1 1 year ago | link | on: Non-caching proxy for removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk

            “Note that the Privoxy project currently has no trusted build infrastructure” pretty much kills this for me. If they had a git repo or did signed source releases, maybe, but as is there’s nearly no chance I would take some random person’s binary build, stick a trusted cert on it, and lob all my traffic through it.