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by kody 3y ago
Anecdotally, I received 2-3 messages from recruiters almost daily during 2020-2021 (ended up taking a job from one in 2021). I didn't hear anything from recruiters from 2022 until about 2 weeks ago -- now they're starting to trick
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by kody 3y ago
Slack shouldn't display a blank screen for 5 seconds on startup on my M2. Not when Ripcord loads instantly. I haven't built anything in Electron, but I've been writing Qt/QML cross-platform (focus on desktop) apps for a
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by kody 3y ago
"Hey boss, can you go ahead and change my job title to Code Janitor?"
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by kody 3y ago
There are secular and religion-agnostic churches. Unitarian Universalism, for example.
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by kody 3y ago
My old coworker would say "consuming anime". Drove me nuts.
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by kody 3y ago
I taught a Middle School class on digital citizenship and found Common Sense's lesson plans helpful: https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship The kids engaged most with lessons about privacy and l
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by kody 3y ago
My students were able to program Arduino devices from their Chromebooks because of this tech. That would have been inaccessible to them if they had to use a "real" OS, which the school did not provide.
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by kody 3y ago
4:00 Wake up, enjoy matcha latte and a banana 4:45 Jiu-Jitsu 6:30 Shower 6:45 Make another matcha and read 7:30 Breakfast with the family 8:00 Head to work
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by kody 3y ago
During COVID WFH, probably 20-30 per day. I didn't think it was a big deal since I had extra flexibility with my time during work hours. I eventually understood that I was blurring the lines between work and life. Now that I'm bac
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by kody 4y ago
My grocery bill has increased, but otherwise I've been lucky enough to not notice inflation yet.
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by kody 4y ago
I'm right there with you. I wonder why I even have a smartphone since I'm so app-averse, other than requiring the computing power to run any modern bloated website. I've had arguments with PMs instisting that, for example, a
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by kody 4y ago
No professional organization that depends on Tool A to make things with real consequences should be using Tool B? /pedantry An argument could be made that no organization should use Excel/Sheets for anything with "real"
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by kody 4y ago
+1 for ripcord. So much better than using a bloated web browser
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by kody 4y ago
Completely quitting alcohol. I don't know if it's an age thing, but a single glass of wine will guaranteed drop my cognitive function the next day. It sucks to quit, but sucks less than living in permanent brain fog.
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by kody 4y ago
I stopped using Notion of a few months ago due to the leaky abstraction of their blocks model. Back to plaintext (via Obsidian) for me.
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by kody 4y ago
Choose the best language for what the kid wants to learn. Minecraft Education Edition - choose between Scratch, Python, and JS. Battlesnake - any language with web server capabilities. Electronics - C++, MicroPython, or Lua with NodeMCU Lov
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by kody 4y ago
I'm teaching middle schoolers using Makeblock ( https://www.makeblock.com/ ) products and I am completely blown away by how accessible these things are. Once the kids have built and programmed (using Scratch, Python, or
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by kody 4y ago
"How git works", especially demystifying merge conflicts, has been a major pain point at all my jobs from embedded to frontend web dev, unfortunately.
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by kody 5y ago
I've gotten some of the best feedback on our software from coworkers over lunch or "water cooler" conversations. People rarely take the time to Slack over their ideas.
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by kody 5y ago
It's kind of a pop self-help book but I really enjoyed Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets, particularly in terms of managing risk and making decisions in uncertainty.
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by kody 5y ago
I got lucky and started working for a brand new private school last year. Coding is part of the core curriculum and afternoons are devoted to project-based learning. I get to work on a very small team trying to build an effective school fro
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by kody 5y ago
I prefer about 5AM, but usually go at noon because the gym is empty.
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by kody 5y ago
We can only hope.
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by kody 5y ago
I have not because I've deactivated my Facebook account and generally detest centralized services and miss the old days of user-run forums, but I'll give the SD HAM group a fair shake. I've had poor experiences with Meetup so
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by kody 5y ago
Only Sith deal in absolutes -- I feel that with TDD. Yes, our tests should catch most if not all regressions - no that does not mean we're inherently writing bug-free code as long as it passes all our tests. If someone claims that a me
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by kody 5y ago
Oh man, seeing "SQL Wizard" brought back memories. Thanks for sharing.
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by kody 5y ago
I wish there were a way to broadcast "I am a <hobbyist> in <area>" and generate a decentralized forum (i.e. phpbb 15 years ago). Growing up, all online friends lived hundreds of miles away; as an adult, all my friends
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by kody 5y ago
So, the next wave of DRM
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by kody 5y ago
Therein lies the insanity; a person can create {art, music, game asset} and nothing stops others from consuming that thing. Web3/crypto does not solve that -- it only 'proves' that one person 'owns' the created thin
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by kody 5y ago
Nope, but a whole lot of ancap bros are going to get very rich from this fad. More power to them I guess.

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