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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Libraries are safe spaces for minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. Books in general spread awareness and raise empathy and can also help struggling young people understand that they are not alone.

    That quote isn’t saying people of these communities read or use a public library more than those who aren’t; it’s pointing out that the erasure of public safe spaces and resources affects groups that benefit from their existence more.

    All of that doesn’t even mention the content that was likely present in those 500,000 books.



  • distance: how far you’ve traveled if you put all the steps in a line (may also be gps tracked too)

    azm: active zone minutes or how many minutes you’ve spent with your heart rate in the “active zone” where you burn more calories

    floors: how many flights of stairs you’ve climbed

    calories: estimate of how many calories you’ve burnt based on all the other stats


  • To be fair, wasn’t the vim codebase entirely committed by a single person? He did that with everyone and, while I don’t agree with that at all, it reads less like elitism / stolen credit than this particular story.

    I may be wrong about that, so feel free to correct me 😊 either way, people should be credited for the work they do! and preferably not in the footnotes of a commit authored by someone else that didn’t fix the bug