Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

Late #introduction

Been playing around w/ #coding since I was 11, & w/ #linguistics since that weird summer of 2014.

BA in Italianistics, doing an MA in English Linguistics since Fall 2019. Slowly working my way to becoming a researcher. My current interests are #sociolinguistics #phonology #syntax #ConstructionGrammar (and other non-TGG approaches).

When I'm not ranting about web or desktop computing, I toot interesting links, showerthoughts, and increasingly more linguistics stuff.

Github has published an official CLI: https://github.com/cli/cli

It's pretty barebones, but WIP, so maybe it becomes a good client.

I also just installed Hub (https://hub.github.com/) which seems to cover a great big part of Github's functionality.

You're holding your pen(cil) wrong. Try this: http://spdrdng.com/posts/how-to-hold-your-pen-in-the-most-ergonomic-way

I feel fatigue when writing, especially my index finger, which starts to hurt after a while. I found this from a comment on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22281246&utm_term=comment), and it feels more comfortable. Will try this out from now on.

In order to make #Firefox for #Android display cached pages after cold start when you're offline:

Go to about:config
Set browser.tabs.useCache to true

I filed a bug that they make this the default: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615891

Because, why not? The feature was enabled then subsequently disabled in 2016. And for years I had to wait for getting off metro to read stuff in my tabs because Android decided to kill Firefox at some random point in time and Firefox would rather show Server Not Found page.

It's sad that Android lacks a way of setting locales on a per app basis. I'd love to use Maps in Turkish, along with a few other apps.

Tho with maps when I make my phone's language Turkish, I then have to read everything in cringy Google Maps Turkish which is not an improvement at all.

Is there any way to make Google Maps not translate stuff? I'm fed up with reading stuff in my mother tongue in crappy Google Translate English.

I have my phone in English because I can't stand shitty translations, and Google believes I'm a monolingual speaker of English irregardless of my Google account settings that say I'm not.

And it's funny how they collect so much data about everyone but they are yet to figure out not everyone is monolingual.

Great comment on HN:

> As a thought experiment, what if companies are made to pay for commute time? How would that change the labour market? Would they hire local? Provide better transportation? Work with cities to reduce congestion? Encourage more remote work? Decide it's too expensive to hire workers and cut hours? Work towards more inclusive housing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322975

Late Tombili was a friendly cat that sat reclining on the pavement, enjoying the street with fellow humans. She died in 2016. There is a statue of her in Ziverbey, Kadikoy, Istanbul (somewhere near Nazim Hikmet Kultur Merkezi, IIRC).

#cats