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Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd, game dev
@[email protected] of course, this is the same school of pedantry that will try and tell you that you're using the 'wrong' names for types of swords as if there's a central historical authority rather than each author going 'I'm gonna call these ones long because I feel like it'.
@[email protected] If you ask the wrong type of pedant, they'll tell you (for even more confusion) that it's only a whetstone if you use oil on it, otherwise it's a water stone. "don't oil up that water stone, and especially don't get the whetstone wet!"
That feeling when you realise tab didn't complete the filename you thought and that you've just tried to open a 30gb file on a USB drive in vi over an ssh connection.
I suspect that people making physical components with care and precision that they know will never be seen, and will be noticed only in the absence of problems coming from them, most have a similar experience. You feel pride in the job well done, but it is also somewhat anti-climatic when you look at the finished product.
There's this weird moment in refactoring code, when after hours/days of redesign, changes, and testing you bask in the glow of a job well done and all the improvements you've made... before running the code and seeing absolutely nothing different in how it functions from the outside because that's what refactoring means.
@[email protected] @[email protected] see also: a greener developer would assume that this is obviously a bug in the compiler because the behaviour is so inexplicable, but my senior software developer humility teaches me it is surely my mistake
Some (most?) days teaching students to code is uplifting, feels worthwhile, and gives everybody involved a sense of satisfaction.
Other days you discover one of your students hasn't been able to press "enter" for the last 2 lessons because they rethemed their keyboard and the theme turned the enter key into an image of a teapot.
looks at track record of leaving things ready the night before
Well! I'm glad that works for other people. No jealousy here at all 😀
Apparently 2025 is the year that has Weird Al singing 'killing in the name of'. Not a parody, not with sanitised lyrics. Just straight up 'fuck you I won't do what you tell me'.
That's... not something I ever expected to see.
@[email protected] @[email protected] While I think that medication is often used as an only treatment when it should be part of something more holistic (and that is a problem), I don't think there's too much of giving medication to boys who don't actually have adhd because that's just a pain for the 'carers' involved
@[email protected] @[email protected] as someone medicated for adhd, I'm going to have to speak up a moment here: several of the most common adhd medications will make the symptoms no better or actively worse if given to someone who has executive function issues (the symptoms of adhd) but caused by environmental effects like trauma, lack of sleep, etc.
> unstoppable if i had one of those american automatic programmable coffee makers.
Right up until the first time it needs cleaning or refilling?
Turns out I was storing multiple (10+) gigabytes of internal data from the ventilation system including fan speeds, system humidity and temperatures, etc as it is one of the most aggressively real time systems connected to the automation.
Oops?
So I noticed yesterday that my home automation server (surprisingly useful when you have solar panels) was running out of storage space, and thought I was going to have to buy more.
Then I noticed that I'd stored every change in fan speed of the ventilation system for the past 18 months because I'd forgotten to add a retention policy.
I've been very impressed with the collaborative editing support built into CodeMirror. There's certain properties in software that still always feel magical to me, and shared code editing is very much one of them - watching changes made by other people spread around the world appearing in front of your eyes is still just awesome, even if I do know how the magic is happening behind the scenes.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Had a job once where we emailed airline customers if their plane was cancelled or delayed. We had to page requests to one of the SOAP APIs because if you asked for too many customer details at once, you got back malformed xml ending with -- more --
@[email protected] This is a really clear explanation that I've sometimes missed in the past. Thank you for making it happen!
@[email protected] The only unfortunate issue with that is that it involves going to shops; the kind of things that I'd buy from the shops I'd like to visit (board games, books, etc) are pretty easy to order reliably online (and there aren't many local options), while the things that can't reliably be bought online tend to be in shops that are a full on sensory assault.
Both of these things make me sad.
@[email protected] Is this newsletter a thing that people can sign up for?
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