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Polyglot dev. Ruby, CoffeeScript, Mongo, Postgres. Exploring Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, CQL. Interested in tiling theory & Islamic patternation.
A recent upgrade to Dietpi (Debian Trixie) totally broke `docker` operations in Swarmpit. Swarmpit is essentially abandoned, so I used it as an opportunity to migrate to Uncloud. It's been totally awesome.
On MacOS:
Option-Shift-Hyphen for em-dash
Option-Hyphen for en-dash
Shift-Hyphen for underscore
Just to add my own observation here: some cuisines are really optimized for sharing in larger groups… certainly a lot of the regional Chinese cuisines assume many people at a table, with large (i.e. higher priced) servings. If it’s just 2 or 3 of you, you end up getting only 1 or 2 dishes, often with a lot left over.
So, this is a genius way of optimizing for that!
I totally want something like this here in Sydney.
I dunno whether "good" really applies to this, but I've gotta say I've been loving the cost, portability and reliability of the Numark DJ2Go Touch ($AU120):
https://www.numark.com/product/dj2go2-touch
I've got a cute little portable setup using it, a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 1TB m.2 SSD, 15" portable USB-C monitor and a Keychron low-profile keyboard and bluetooth mouse. Works amazingly well.
I'm betting that just about any controller would be worth a shot.
Not a course, as such, but reading “Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament fame.
I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles.
I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades.
And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.
“Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament” fame.
This was recommended by the delightful and talented Tibees YouTuber.
A few pages in and I was absolutely hooked and ready to start proving geometric conjectures…
A truly amazing communicator and educator.
Interesting stuff.
Would be VERY interested in having visualizations of Apple Music data. I've had 20+ years to build up pretty significant play history.
Certainly being able to look into every type of health data would yield interesting insights.
One minor thing that does bug me: US date format. Probably be better to default to whatever short-date format is the user's preference in iOS. Same goes for metric/imperial.
Looking forward to seeing more visualizations!
This is gonna sound a bit corny, but it impacted me for reasons that will become clear: "1984", by George Orwell.
I was 13 at the time, and I was lucky enough to have a passionate English teacher that gave us challenging books to review. I chose "1984". It was the first book I'd read, up to that point, that didn't have a "Hollywood ending". The hero didn't save the day and get the girl… just the victory of tyranny over individualism. Admittedly, I had read a lot of crap, up till then.
As the leader directly tells Winston (i.e. you, the reader): "If you want a picture of the future, think of a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
I was gripped by the writing up till the very last words, then a panic set in… I thought that there were pages missing… I literally checked that someone hadn't torn out the last chapter where everything is made right again. No. There was no liberation. I sat stunned for the better part of an hour.
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula le Guin: never have I experienced the idea of a working anarchism described in such a genuinely coherent form.
This is remarkably similar to Calca.app, which I still use occasionally. http://calca.io/
I love that yours is web based! Can see it being much more reusable in a number of use-cases.
Calca was originally MacOS/iOS, but has since been ported to Windows.
I think that the notation in Calca to use a `=>` to display results maybe adds a bit more clarity to the math expressions, but your display style seems to work pretty well too.
The only advantage Calca seems to have is they’ve had almost a decade to add things like extra functions (compound interest, trig, …), constants, operators, etc.
I’ve always thought that style of simple but highly visible calculation is a far superior alternative to spreadsheets. Jupyter, LiveBook, Mathematica, etc… have shown that it works, but the world is still enamored with Excel, despite its propensity to hide mistakes.
My body is a temple: old, crumbing and full of unspeakable horrors.
Mexican proverb: Every revolution eventually becomes another government.
Ah, but it’s an idempotent joke, so it’s funny no matter how many times you tell it!
A squib is what they use in movies to make something look like it’s been shot with a bullet. Kinda a little flat firework that ejects “stuff” explosively. Actors wear them under their costumes. They’re usually remote controlled
If brute force doesn’t work, you’re not using enough of it.
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:
1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. Off-by-one errors 0. Asynchronous callbacks 7. Buffer overflowA203FE11980018900000
This is inspiring stuff.
Was extremely interested in the Inmos Transputer in the 80s. Seems like an idea way ahead of its time… a bit like REX.
I find the parallels in design with the Actor concurrency model of Erlang, Elixir and Transputer/REX are very compelling.
Really hope something happens with this project or some spinoff from it.
The current interest in RISC-V is testament to the fact that it may still be viable.
I wish you great success. Wish there was a way to sponsor or crowd-source fund this.
Tried going through the onboarding sample project from within VS-Code locally… I know, you suggest trying it in the Github Browser, but, hey, I'm perverse and it's available as an option within the extension.
It's not at all clear from the documentation or the onboarding notes how to seed a SQLite in-memory database and the CSVs in the `seeds` directory are sometimes referred to in the sample schemas, but sometimes not. So, kinda got stuck.
I know if I stuck with it (I got impatient), I'd figure it out myself, but it does seem to be a missing element in the docs.
Looks fascinating, though.
Kinda like Elixir LiveBook, but focussed on DBs.
This is so insultingly dumb. The skill and music categories are simplistic and show no knowledge of the true depth and breadth of music styles or techniques, and it pathetically assumes I want to find someone within 10 “miles”. You do know that there are 7.5 billion people on this planet that don’t know or give a shit about your dumb barbarian units?
“Yeah, brah! This’ll help you build your sweet-as rock band… or jazz or some shit, whatevs…”
Would like to also add:
Pros:
* Salaries are pretty excellent for tech-workers and pretty active demand for talent.
* Sane healthcare system (can get free/cheap, quality medication but can also pay more for private/better healthcare)
* Retirement funds NOT managed by whatever dodgy-as-fuck company you work for, compulsory, and regulated by the government. i.e.: you WILL actually receive one.
* Mercifully sensible attitude to work/life balance. Decent annual leave allocations, parent-friendly attitudes (often in law).
* Well-educated population with enthusiastic attitude to embracing positive tech trends.
Cons:
* Jesus, why is real estate so expensive here? (As said above). We have so much land! The answer is: it's complicated.
* Abominable level of right-wing media disinformation via TV/Newspapers because Rupert Murdoch is a complete asshole and unfortunately Australian. Try sitting in a taxi with the radio tuned to Ray Hadley or Alan Jones for the delightful experience of hearing racism, bigotry, class-warfare, victim-blaming and never-ending scapegoating for an exercise in tolerance.
Laws regarding this are different from country to country. I know that the US laws are very biased towards the employer, and the employee gets to be put in a terrible situation.
Australia had laws like this in the past (thanks Liberal Party, you pricks), but they were being seriously abused and eventually rolled back. Abuse still happens though, just less of it.
Yeah, I dunno why I let it happen either.
I’d never been like that with any other job. My only guess is the explanation I gave in my other post above/below.
It certainly hasn’t happened since or ever will again, you can be sure of that.
Noone ever goes to there grave saying “If only I’d spent more time at work!”
Been in that situation before too. Damn that sucks.
Oh, absolutely agree. Some people really THRIVE when they become parents, and hooray for them. It’s different for everyone.
The travel thing is definitely something I wish I could do more of, so if your current employer enables that, that’s a big plus for your mental health.
Do you think your current employer would respond well to an honest discussion about how to make the work you do more, I dunno, exciting? Envigorating? Less stressful? More meaningful? Less contact hours? Some managers would respond well to that. Others, not so much.
Dare I say it, it may also be worth talking to your partner? That’s definitely something I wish I’d done way sooner when I was seriously depressed. My partner has been so understanding and helped greatly get me back to a state where I was getting more joy out of life. For me, it was always this fear of feeling like a failure, something that is definitely intensified by having 2 people depend on you as much as a mother and child do. If they love you, they will really want to help you and you’d be crazy not to ask for their advice at least.
Worth noting that the HR department are NOT the ones to be discussing this with: they work for the company, not for you. It sounds harsh, but NEVER trust HR, no matter how nice they seem most of the time.
the classic midlife crisis feeling that I haven't accomplished anything
Totally frivolous aside, the Germans have a word for that: “Torschlußpanik".
From Tor + Schluss + Panik, literally “gate-shut panic”. For safety reasons city gates used to be shut at nightfall (Torschluss, from Tor + Schluss), leaving latecomers no other choice than to stay outside, thereby exposing them to various dangers.
A German once told me “yeah, but in Germany that usually hits people in their 20s”. LOL.
That’s a very good question. Hubris? I guess?
What I mean by that, was I was REALLY invested in the project: not the business case, or the brand or anything else about the company, and particularly not the CEO. I REALLY wanted to complete the project as a badge of honour for myself.
I’d built 4 x tech teams of a total of 25 senior devs up from nothing, entirely re-wrote the broken legacy backend systems and switched over flawlessly, under-budget and on-time, as well as gave the other teams I managed the autonomy and trust to rebuild front-end and mobile systems using best practices. We had a great engineering culture that I was proud of.
I had known from the very beginning that the CEO was a loose cannon, but I stupidly thought I had the experience and willpower to keep them under control and largely out of the way of the tech team. I was so horribly wrong.
When the above rebuild of the backend was finished they placed an incompetent buffoon in charge over me, threw out the roadmap I’d created and started micro-managing the senior devs. When he was shouting at one of the senior devs for daring to be 5 minutes late to work, I took him aside and said “you just can’t do that, these people are hard to come by” he fired me on the spot.
So, yeah, hubris.
+1 for this.
Normalising talking about it, is good
100% agree with this. This was, I think, the number 1 thing I did NOT want to do when I was in the midst of suicidal depression (i.e. talk about it) and the biggest reason why it got worse and worse and spiralled out of control.
If I had advice for past-me, it would be:
* It's okay to say "I'm a frikkin' mess. Please help me". To anyone. If they're no help, fine. If they can help, excellent.
* Other people are NOT waiting to use any weakness you tell them about against you to fire you, leave you, disown you, or anything else. They are MOST likely to have empathy and want to help. When you're depressed, that's hard to believe, but it's true. But if they DO, then maybe they're the part of the problem?
* You don't have to have some "justifiable reason" for being in the state you are. The constant self-talk in my head was "I have no excuse to be depressed because my life is relatively easy and other people have it way worse than me". No: you experience what you experience and you want/need to fix it.
It might be rooted in the fact that I don't have kids
As a parent: nope, it's definitely not that.
Yes, having children is a rich and beautiful experience. It's also a ruthless grind. So, if you think you're feeling lethargic and it's all a bit futile, imagine doing everything you do now, but also arguing with a smaller, more annoying version of yourself for a couple of decades while sleep deprived, and with 1/4 of the disposable income you have now.
For me, it's a battle between "if I do something, someone's just gonna fuck it up anyway" and "I used to love this. I can still get excited by this, right?" I constantly find myself in a state of paralysis where I know what to do, I know how to do it, I even know how to do it quickly so it can be over and done, but I still just don't want to START anything.
I suspect it's a result of a decade or so of working in startups with borderline psychotic egomaniacs. For instance, one CEO would periodically grab me, walk me a few blocks away from the office and proceed to scream in my face for 20 minutes on the sidewalk. There are many, many other examples, but honestly, it's all too familiar and boring to recount.
At times I feel it may be akin to PTSD. The psych I saw suspected it may well be, but unfortunately there are many more needy patients being treated for far worse PTSD (e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, etc).
Apparently, there's a term for this "inability to do stuff": executive dysfunction. That's about as much as I know.
One of the other unsettling things that has recently manifested itself has been stuttering. I've never stuttered and always prided myself on being a persuasive and confident speaker. But since the above horror-show I've often found myself unable to string sentences together, getting tongue-tied, long pauses. Maybe it's just age, but it seems correlated time-wise. Yes, I know, correlation is not causation.
Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550
There are many copy-cats and fake click-bait channels out there now, but this guy pretty much invented the genre of "no talking, guy makes stuff with his bare hands from scratch" videos, and one of the few that's not complete bullshit.
Underdog Electronic Music School: https://www.youtube.com/@OscarUnderdog
Great advice on making electronic music, techno, etc.
Core Electronics: https://www.youtube.com/@Core-Electronics
They have great electronics/maker tutorials about Arduino, RasPi, etc. Adafruit is an obvious other source.
Jeff Geerling: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffGeerling
Great videos about RasPi, clusters, homelabs, Kubernetes and lots more.
https://www.youtube.com/@thatdudecancook
"thatdudecancook" (terrible name, I know!) has shown me some amazingly simple techniques that have radically improved my cooking:
https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified
If you're into Chinese cooking, then the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel is excellent. This is not your lemon chicken from the mall food court… They deep-dive into all the regional cuisines and present non-mainland-China-friendly recipes and techniques. It's a real eye-opener.
https://www.youtube.com/@LanceHedrick
For coffee, as others have said, James Hoffman, but also check out Lance Hendrick if you want crazy amounts of detail:
https://www.youtube.com/@AaronandClaire
Aaron & Claire regularly produce ultra-simple, fast, imaginative Korean dishes.
https://www.youtube.com/@HowToCookThat
Ann Reardon does some interesting baking-oriented stuff, but even better, her debunking videos are the real gold.
https://www.youtube.com/@SmokingDadBBQ
I'm getting into BBQ & smoking (bought a Kamado) and found SmokingDadBBQ informative.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4KP216972cPp2w_BAHy8g
For something really out-there, Wilderness Cooking (again, a terrible name) is intriguing. It's this guy living in what looks like a pretty remote village in Azerbaijan doing traditional outdoor feasts. Warning: not even remotely vegetarian-friendly.
+1 for Adam Regusea and J-Kenji Lopez-Alt.
+1 Chef Wang is the bomb!
Gonna check out the film channel… thanks!
"thatdudecancook" (terrible name, I know!) has shown me some amazingly simple techniques that have radically improved my cooking:
https://www.youtube.com/@thatdudecancook
If you're into Chinese cooking, then the Chinese Cooking Demystified channel is excellent. This is not your lemon chicken from the mall food court… They deep-dive into all the regional cuisines and present non-mainland-China-friendly recipes and techniques. It's a real eye-opener.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified
+1 for Adam Regusea and J-Kenji Lopez-Alt.
For coffee, as others have said, James Hoffman, but also check out Lance Hendrick if you want crazy amounts of detail:
https://www.youtube.com/@LanceHedrick
Aaron & Claire regularly produce ultra-simple, fast, imaginative Korean dishes:
https://www.youtube.com/@AaronandClaire
Ann Reardon does some interesting baking-oriented stuff, but even better, her debunking videos are the real gold:
https://www.youtube.com/@HowToCookThat
I'm getting into BBQ & smoking (bought a Kamado) and found SmokingDadBBQ informative:
https://www.youtube.com/@SmokingDadBBQ
For something really out-there, Wilderness Cooking (again, a terrible name) is intriguing. It's this guy living in what looks like a pretty remote village in Azerbaijan doing traditional outdoor feasts. Warning: not even remotely vegetarian-friendly.