I agree with what you’re saying. However given the reputation of openclaw (and I presume many other vibe coded spaghetti monsters) I appreciate the signal “I care about quality”.

If you ignore the early pandemic bump, it even looks like the decline started in late 2017, though it's more variable than after the bump

This stuff is quite new to me as I’ve been learning F#, so take this with a pinch of salt. Some of the things you’d want are: - a function to produce a list of customers

- a function or two to retrieve the data, which would be passed into the customer list function. This allows the customer list function to be independent of the data retrieval. This is essentially functional dependency injection

- a function to take a list of customers and return a list of effects: things that should happen

- this is where I wave my hands as I’m not sure of the plumbing. But the final part is something that takes the list of effects and does something with them

With the above you have a core that is ignorant of where its inputs come from and how its effects are achieved - it’s very much a pure domain model, with the messy interfaces with the outside world kept at the edges

How does that work for e.g. infants? Doesn’t it give unscrupulous parents of those children an extra vote?

I think the execution is probably difficult, but in principle you can make the requirement that the voter marks a valid ballot by themself.

Interacts badly with mail in and lots of other issues of course.

fine - they have more at stake. Might actually encourage having more children, increase familial voting power

Or… England?

Ouch. My stereotypically-American US-centric bias is showing :)

Old England.

With the new non-rhotic affectation.

Which is really getting out of hand, to the point that some English speakers are starting to sound positively French: ‘cweam’ instead of ‘cream’ the same way the French turned ‘rex’ into ‘wa.’

I blame the EU.

I was tempted to say "parts of England"... but I wanted to mean "parts of the united Kingdom"... so... you are right :)

They might already be familiar with Dave’s bassline from Eminem’s “My Name Is”. My personal favourite bit of music trivia

    with your incessant talking,
    you're becoming a pest,

On the same theme, more recently, Leave Me Lonely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKifJ4Q5ph0

Wasn't Eminem's nickname, "Rabbit?"

In 8 Mile, yes.

Ah. Creative license?

Becoming a dad or are you already one and just upping the excitement? If you’re new, my two pieces of advice are that there’s only right now to deal with when things start to feel rough, and lick your fingers to open the nappy sack before you start dealing with the nappy. Both gems and hard-won

Woodworking and designing furniture. Just this weekend I finally set up my home workshop after almost a decade of dreaming about it (and collecting things I thought I might need). Just spent two hours drawing basic layouts for some wardrobes, and looking at beautiful midcentury, Scandinavian, and Japanese items online. Any good resources (for technical or aesthetics) are very much welcome - I’m looking to invest in my knowledge now I can put it to use.

I made something similar at https://drivl.app. I should have known someone else had already done it

Really neat app! Raises the stakes for writers. I'm inspired now to write something like this but with a "redemption" feature where your lost words can be recovered by consistently completing multiple sessions over time.

This reminds me of something that always made me smile - when at uni I lived with an Israeli guy who made yogurt in a pan in the kitchen. When I asked how you make yogurt, the answer was “put some milk in a pan with some yogurt and leave it for a few days”. Not sure whether they’re in on the joke here, but the recipe for yogurt is to buy some