Nentuaby🏳️‍🌈 @Nentuaby@wandering.shop

Which is, y'know. Racist. There's no excuse for this anymore. The entire industry spent two decades pulling its hair out to make Unicode happen, but that work is done now. There's no modern language without Unicode support.

Stand on the shoulders of giants already. And throw some damn emojos in your test cases. ⚠️

Emoji are just characters. In technical terms they're ordinary text that fonts happen to render as a little picture. That means this is a silly, trivial way for anglocentric coders to discover a bug that also prevents you from, for instance, ever writing a commit in Chinese.

RT @chaosprime@twitter.com:
last week i got to witness an engineering department lose a full day's work because if you put an emoji in a git commit message, Atlassian Bamboo chokes on it forever and you're forced to rebase master, like you should NEVER DO. this was of course referred to as The Emojiency

Which reverses itself faster:

* 60Hz AC mains power

* A #NextDoor user who INSISTS that the problem is 100% about sanitation issues, but has just seen it suggested that maybe the #homeless encampment might be provided with portalets and trash service.

Getting real sick of how many people in this country only use the concepts of Islamophobia and Antisemitism to further each other.

I got the job!

I'm going to be working at Carbon Lighthouse, a company with a mission to reduce the energy impact of commercial real-estate developments.

(And a pretty solid business model for doing well while doing good, which doesn't feature the word "disrupt" even once. That's a *really* nice change in the SFBA startup scene.)

I made a fun little #web toy. It's a #MandelbrotSet explorer, written in pure #Javascript. You just click to zoom in on a spot of interest; shift click to zoom out. (give it a few seconds to load.)

http://nentuaby.github.io/mandelbrot/index.html

https://github.com/nentuaby/mandelbrot

It's a little primitive as fractal explorers go-- but the wonder, as they say, isn't that the bear dances *well*...