Via Roland, Tom MacWright wonders if the future of programming is more common data types:

What if a simpler programming language had first-class representations of a lot more than strings and arrays?

But if the aim is ease of use and giving power to people who otherwise wouldn’t be doing programming, type-rich systems with lots of assumptions seem like a logical first step. And one that doesn’t need a visual editor or a new dialect of a rare programming language.

Helder is starting a public monologue channel on the Fission Discourse. Monologue channels are something we developed for Fission’s internal Discord chat spaces that seem to have worked out well for people, so Helder is trying it in public.

It’s been fun to evolve how we work as a distributed team.

Woo hoo! I am so stoked!

I now have this site auto-publishing using [[Github Actions for Jekyll]], with a [[Fission Publish]] Github Action at the end.

I used the nicely commented limjh16/jekyll-action-ts and then just added fission publish at the end.

Main thing I need to do to complete the rollout of these new journal logs -- other than pagination -- is to truncate long posts and strip HTML from them.

For short posts, I should not truncate, and actually render markdown.

Probably something like, if the content is bigger than 500 characters, strip_html and show 250 chars with a read more link. If less than 500, display the content.

For reference, this post is about 480 characters without HTML tags.