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Gratitude journal is crypto-Christianity. It rubs me the wrong way since I'm...
Gratitude journal is crypto-Christianity. It rubs me the wrong way since I'm not a Christian and this doesn't fit into my world view, particularly the part about not believing...
Mathematical notation is almost expressive enough to do arbitrary programming....
Mathematical notation is almost expressive enough to do arbitrary programming. Summation symbol does loops, trig & floor function to do if/else expressions.
So to stay employed over the next year they say I'm supposed to...
So to stay employed over the next year they say I'm supposed to in-person-network. In this society? 90% of people at 90% of the social events I've been to in the last decade I...
Well I did have a SaaS idea until I realized Airflow and its clones already...
Well I did have a SaaS idea until I realized Airflow and its clones already exist. But I think I see a niche with a moat: Small teams/departments. Airflow assumes you have enough...
I hear people say, "Matt, can you make it easy?" The answer is yes. ```Makefile...
I hear people say, "Matt, can you make it easy?" The answer is yes. ```Makefile it: : easy: : ```
How to live longer: run, don't binge on the food you want to binge on, don't...
How to live longer: run, don't binge on the food you want to binge on, don't fall.
ShowNTell: So this is my new profile website. It started as a way to...
ShowNTell: So this is my new profile website. It started as a way to dynamically compile the front page README on Github. It is now a custom CMS that switches from identity to...
I got another message from someone offering to let me front for some shadowy...
I got another message from someone offering to let me front for some shadowy unknown tech worker in Asia who wants to work for US companies & I'd take a cut. I'm nobody, so I...
Revisiting my blog and now I remember why this disappeared in favor of...
Revisiting my blog and now I remember why this disappeared in favor of centralized microblogging - Feed building work is split between me (building a blog roll) and the reader...
IDEA: Disney remakes Fantasia and instead of buckets of water, Mickey wrote a...
IDEA: Disney remakes Fantasia and instead of buckets of water, Mickey wrote a script that is filling up s3 buckets and he has to stop it before the bill goes infinite. Symphonic...
Let's replace github actions with... AIRFLOW. "Airflow (TM), it's not YAML" [I...
Let's replace github actions with... AIRFLOW. "Airflow (TM), it's not YAML" [I haven't written a line of airflow, just seems like build scripts didn't have to be YAML or TOML or...
USA Jobs req, prove you can copy paste this into chatgpt """ **SUPPLEMENTARY...
USA Jobs req, prove you can copy paste this into chatgpt """ **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION REQUIRED** Please be sure the following tasks are answered and uploaded to the document...
I can't decorate my functions they way I want to. I want them to have jolly...
I can't decorate my functions they way I want to. I want them to have jolly hats ```python ``` # Invalid hat # 🎩 = lambda _ : _ # valid hat _Δ_= lambda _ : _ Δ_ def hello():...
Somebody had the same idea as me, a developer identity package
Somebody had the same idea as me, a developer identity package
Thinking about new "social media" servers, like meetup.com clones. It needs to...
Thinking about new "social media" servers, like meetup.com clones. It needs to have a really good "empty server" experience. Your empty mobilizon server needs to give initial...
My current understanding of quantum: Our knowledge about the location of...
My current understanding of quantum: Our knowledge about the location of quantum particles flows like heat (the cloud of where we think they could be). When we see a particle, we...
My Mastodon year wrapped: """ - If you tweet a lot today, you are statistically...
My Mastodon year wrapped: """ - If you tweet a lot today, you are statistically more likely to tweet a lot tomorrow. It is a self-exciting process. - If you haven't had a manic...
If your on the left, like I am, and want it to effective, maybe we should think...
If your on the left, like I am, and want it to effective, maybe we should think about the end state that we want and how it is messaged Old school left wing politics in the US,...
THOT OF THE DAY. Enterprise architecture is a scam. Either - It is a made up...
THOT OF THE DAY. Enterprise architecture is a scam. Either - It is a made up role for nontechnical senior management to sabotage the organization with capricious decisions...
If all you know is python, you don't know enough to use the warnings library,...
If all you know is python, you don't know enough to use the warnings library, you also must know - regex (for matching the warning string) - the warnings mini-DSL/file format,...
IDEA: given log4j and react2shell have been so popular, why no create an...
IDEA: given log4j and react2shell have been so popular, why no create an opensource library that will add terminal access to all of your websites? We could add an in-browser TUI...
Ever notice how everyone makes flash cards to memorize the 50-60 four digit...
Ever notice how everyone makes flash cards to memorize the 50-60 four digit jira tickets? Everyone automatically believes this, sort of like how cats born knowing how to chase...
I got this cookbook. Disappointing, I want to write bash to operate the ovens...
I got this cookbook. Disappointing, I want to write bash to operate the ovens at the data centers down the road and get a cherry pie delivered.