jeremymcanally

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by jeremymcanally 6mo ago
I got into HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) fencing last year through a club in my little town. Olympic/sport fencing is fun, but imagine (safely) swinging a 4lbs. steel longsword with two hands at your opponent instead. It&#x
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by jeremymcanally 6mo ago
That's because publishers these days basically require you to have that magnitude of social media presence or they generally won't touch you. If they do, they will do next to nothing to help actually sell your book after it'
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by jeremymcanally 6mo ago
Getting an error claiming it, but I assume they’re getting pelted by people claiming it right now.
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by jeremymcanally 9mo ago
https://jm.cool
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by jeremymcanally 9mo ago
A new numbers game named Sigma. It’s like a crossword plus Sudoku (kind of). Try it out? https://jm.cool/games/sigma
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by jeremymcanally 10mo ago
On macOS, select images, right click, “Quick Actions,” “Convert Image.”
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by jeremymcanally 1y ago
My mom spends easily that much with her tax preparer who is an independent person who tries to dissuade usage of software like TurboTax. My sister spends about $100 to file, and they have simple W-2 stuff. I know several folks at my churc
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by jeremymcanally 1y ago
Precisely why I built https://freetofile.com (it’s a simple static site with React for internationalization that automatically renders in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, or English depending on browser settings). It’s shockin
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by jeremymcanally 1y ago
GitHub was founded to make managing permissions and sharing a git repo easier. It was a nightmare when git was first starting to get traction. Their original tagline was “git repo hosting - no longer a pain in the ass.” The social stuff c
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by jeremymcanally 1y ago
Apple certainly do have web frameworks they’ve written in Swift. No, I don’t know why they aren’t publicly available (at least yet). But I do know they power a number of public facing services.
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by jeremymcanally 2y ago
Working for me?
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by jeremymcanally 2y ago
There are a lot of odd choices here. Is there a mailing list thread or something where this was worked out? I couldn't seem to find one on a quick scan, but I don't know where these discussions happen these days. I really don&#x
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by jeremymcanally 2y ago
Unfortunately not currently, but I will definitely post around again if one opens up in the future!
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by jeremymcanally 2y ago
Bingo! Both of those.
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by jeremymcanally 2y ago
Sequoia Capital - REMOTE (but must be US based and enrolled in a college/university) I'm looking for a software engineering intern for the summer at Sequoia! Here's a tl;dr: - It's paid. - It's full-time. - It'
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
Properly used white list parameter controls (i.e., strong parameters) that are the default Rails behavior at this point would have prevented this bug completely.
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
I found the book “Python Distilled” got me up to speed quickly after not doing a ton of Python for about a decade.
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
Maybe my experience was different but the lack of smell from COVID was farrrrr more acute and noticeable than I’ve ever had with a sinus infection. It was like the sensation just starkly disappeared rather than diminished. It was really o
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
I have a lot of friends (including my spouse) who are teachers, and I can pretty confidently say that an office environment/culture/work sphere as we as engineers are used to is vastly different than working in a classroom. We do
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
Probably because “alias” is a keyword in Ruby.
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
I had, literally, eight different majors over my Bachelor's career, with almost enough credits for two whole B.A. degrees by the time I was done. I just finally picked a major that I had the most credits towards and was cheapest/
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
Sounds like you need to hire better magicians. :)
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
Given they're a legal startup, I really hope it's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Birdman,_Attorney_at_La...
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
I definitely could be wrong! I think there will always be cultural centers because people like gathering together (virtually or otherwise). Things like memes and TikTok trends create shared culture, but I don’t think we have a monoculture
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by jeremymcanally 3y ago
He almost hits on what's changed in my brain, but then kind of wanders into this weird criticism of...things people enjoy. I think the shift is that we don't have a monoculture anymore (thanks to the Internet and especially social
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by jeremymcanally 4y ago
Myst Island is free on the new one but the ages are a one time IAP. Kind of a neat way to let folks try the game out IMO.
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by jeremymcanally 4y ago
Whoops that’s my bad, not intentional. Doing it on mobile and just grabbed the link. Sorry about that. Can’t edit it now.
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by jeremymcanally 4y ago
They released an updated version, and I snapped it up as soon as I learned about it. It’s not only updated but has a lot of new things as well: https://amzn.to/3VnjtKF I miss books like this and the Klutz Press books. The
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by jeremymcanally 4y ago
I used to feel the same way, but I don't think the idea is to abandon all your values in pursuit of success. Instead it's to figure out the system you're entering into and how to operate within it, what values of your may ha
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by jeremymcanally 4y ago
When approaching seemingly insurmountable technical issues, I've found it important to find the root issue of what's causing all the chaos. Yes, the code is a mess. OK, the database design is non-sensical. Sure, things never get

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