Chris Bowdon @cbowdon@linuxrocks.online

Getting steadily more pessimistic about leaving the EU (did not start optimistic). The incompetence of everyone with any influence is staggering. At this point I’d be glad even for a 2nd referendum without Remain as an option. An opportunity to push the direction of travel towards EFTA/EEA rather than No Deal or a weak deal would be great.

#brexit

Despite people saying that terrible documentation is the worst thing about the #clojure ecosystem, I haven’t found that a problem at all so far. I guess it’s no longer a problem for the popular libraries?

It turns out the psychology of “no-deal will never happen” head-in-sand behaviour has been understood for a long time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

#brexit

EU: We have just passed the daftest attempt to restrict the Internet yet!

UK: Hold my cuppa...

Internet regulator considered for UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45590297

Thinking today about how #Clojure and #JS both prefer small libraries. They still have different attitudes:

- Clojure: carefully choose which small components to assemble the system from, be picky

- JS: import everything, only write glue code, if you accidentally write a reusable function give it a logo and publish it to NPM

I’m only partly exaggerating

Am I getting wiser with age, or just more self-satisfied?

The different #Brexit agendas... am I missing any?

- May: wants to exit the EU her way
- Boris: wants to exit the EU any way except May’s way
- Hammond: wants to not ruin economy during his tenure
- JRM: wants to exit without a deal and cash in
- Corbyn: wants Tories to fuck it up and lose control
- Umuna: wants Corbyn to fuck it up and lose control

I’ve got to stop assuming any glass of clear liquid in the kitchen is water.