I still use and like Perl. Nowadays, I mostly use it for smallish scripts or medium-sized programs, but I have worked on three quite large systems written in Perl. It was fine. If you're a careful and disciplined programmer, you can write Perl that's just as readable as any other language.

The popularity of Python mystifies me. As a language, it's just... meh... it's OK. But the ecosystem is horrendous. Every time I upgrade to a new major version of Debian, Python scripts that use modules I installed by hand in venvs break left and right. What a mess.

I's the b'ye that writes the work
And I's the b'ye that proofs it
I's the b'ye that pays AI
To fill the work with bull-shit!

The tune.

ELEVEN!!!!

Why? It's completely rational from the companies' point of view. Workers in India will be paid much, much less than workers in the USA.

A 15-minute journey by car in London is going to be a pretty short journey. Have you encountered London traffic?

In my part of Canada (Ottawa), they seem to be adding roundabouts in new developments, but not retrofitting them on existing roads to any great extent.

I've never encountered drivers who don't know what to do at a roundabout. The signs make it pretty clear that vehicles entering the roundabout must yield to vehicles already on them.

Yeah, it's too bad Microsoft doesn't have any decent tools for remote collaboration.

Specifically, the jobs of statisticians in BLS are now very precarious. You don't contradict Dear Leader Trump Jong Un...

Remember when social media was real? I mean, of course everyone partied, went on cruises, was always having fun, was the center of everything... so, so real.

Real estate doesn't have spectacular returns. It's also very illiquid; if you have to sell at an inopportune time, it can take you ages and you can lose a lot of money.

Boring index funds are best. Though with the way the world is going, perhaps a bit of gold might be a good part of your asset mix.

And so of course, it doesn't mess up ®.

Wait... does UTF-8 work now??? Høly smökes!!!

Hey, but at least you can take solace in the fact that UTF-8 characters are still fucked up. ®

A glorified auto-complete system, that has at its heart a random number generator, sometimes makes mistakes. Film at 11.

I agree with everything you wrote except the 2FA part. Given supply chain attacks, if your open-source projects have any chance at all of developing a reasonable user-base, you should enable 2FA. I don't host any of my projects on platforms that don't support 2FA.

TOTP authenticator apps are free and easy to use. Use them! Or better yet, use a Yubikey or similar.

I deleted all but one of my GitHub repos a while back. This article reminded me to delete the final one.

Moved them all to three mirrors: self-hosted Forgejo, Codeberg and salsa.debian.org. There was really only one repo that attracted outside developers and PRs, and that can as easily be done on Codeberg as on GitHub.