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by mfashby 4y ago
Thanks! I can recommend writing, even just short stuff, I think it helps consolidate things you have learned (or just lets you show off your skateboard collection) if/when I get back to clojure, maybe I'll even code something in i
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by mfashby 4y ago
Why not :) https://mfashby.net/
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by mfashby 4y ago
I'm not sure that Google is in a similar place to carmakers. There are maybe 3 or 4 major carmakers, and their primary business is cars (well, maybe vans trucks etc too). If they stop selling those, the business is dead. There is reall
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by mfashby 4y ago
Maybe something like https://bearblog.dev/ ? But I don't write on medium so I don't know what's missing in comparison.
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by mfashby 4y ago
No mention of PRQL yet, it's an effort to tackle some of these shortcomings https://prql-lang.org/
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by mfashby 4y ago
I enjoyed the rustlings puzzles. They reference the book a lot, and I tend to learn better by doing (at least a little bit of doing).
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by mfashby 4y ago
Dry-stone walling is a skill!
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by mfashby 4y ago
maddy.email could be a good addition
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by mfashby 4y ago
I use it. It seems good.
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by mfashby 4y ago
Re. Changing motor oil example: I gave up doing this when my cars started having non-standard nuts on the oil sump. I had to pay the garage to fit a _headlight_ recently because the bulb was practically inaccessible without either specialis
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by mfashby 4y ago
yes :) > Where/How did you find your job? Referral from an old colleague. > If you started at 40 hours per week, how did you negotiate it to 32? Asked. Took 80% full time equivalent pay. Had just received a pay rise, so there was
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by mfashby 4y ago
I don't really use github actions (like, ever), but it's the default setup for a terraform provider I'm working on and the very minute I queue a bunch of jobs; the system goes down. Interesting.
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by mfashby 4y ago
> Playing the game is a voluntary action taken by an individual, just like going to a casino. The same argument can be made for other regulated activities like drinking alcohol or smoking (whether you agree or not, that's how it is
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by mfashby 4y ago
Sounds like a job for Marie Kondo, organising consultant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo
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by mfashby 4y ago
Related book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. He argues that the incentives of social media companies are misaligned. Their profits come from advertisers, and that maximising their profit means maximising 'engagement' and screen time,
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by mfashby 5y ago
Somewhat related: https://maddy.email and the libraries it's built on such as go-smtp https://github.com/emersion/go-smtp
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by mfashby 5y ago
The name collides with a web framework (also in Rust) https://lib.rs/crates/warp
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by mfashby 5y ago
I'm curious how others do code review in fossil? It's something that GitHub is quite good at in my opinion; raising pull requests, having pre-merge checks, commenting on individual lines of changes, etc etc is all useful. It'
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by mfashby 5y ago
I'm inclined to look at tools like fossil again, for it's distributed issue tracking and wiki capability https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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by mfashby 5y ago
That's not a balanced take. Balance is weighted by the quality and quantity of evidence.
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by mfashby 5y ago
surprisingly difficult, only scored 1 the first try!
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by mfashby 5y ago
It definitely does give you a default answer to keep going. And I don't think thats a terrible thing. I was lucky to have a great childhood. Becoming a parent is one route to giving someone else a great childhood. Lots of humans derive
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by mfashby 5y ago
Time to attach a debugger?
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by mfashby 5y ago
Ah thanks, fixed
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by mfashby 5y ago
similar discussion recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161585 similar open-source program plainoldrecipe https://plainoldrecipe.com/
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by mfashby 5y ago
I have the same feelings about exercise that seems like a grind. Sports which have some technical element like rock climbing, skiing, skating are much easier to stick with, I find.
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by mfashby 5y ago
golang unfortunately also produces negative results from the mod operator It was quite confusing trying to port this diff algorithm https://blog.robertelder.org/diff-algorithm/
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by mfashby 5y ago
Hmm, what about education? I've learned a bunch through thoughtful reviews of my code by other devs.
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by mfashby 5y ago
TFA reminded me to go register my own bike, which I had forgotten to do. I also registered at bikeregister.com which is linked from the UK police.
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by mfashby 5y ago
Some software like gitea [1] can mirror github repositories (or vice versa). Some other software like fossil [2] is designed to do not just source code but also issue tracking etc. in a decentralised fashion. It's definitely more work

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