everyone else doing programmers youtube channels: How do I get the code font size right? Cameras? Mics? Lighting?
thing guy: I'm just going to do voice overs of a gopro of walking around in the forest.
https://www.youtube.com/c/FredrikChristenson/videos
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> How do you ask a developer to be the last to work a ticket for a mistake?
> How many points will that be? 1, 2, 3, 5 or 8?
Feature flags the best. https://x.com/dotnetdc/status/1524018669138767873
Ants committing trespass and theft in the house- what is a fair punishment for the ants
How do tech recruiters find people who program {X} but are willing to program in {Y}- I suspect this is the holding back all new programming languages because lots of dev would switch languages if some would ask & depending on the language, experience in any is good enough
If search engines don't let you use bad words to search, won't urban dictionary lead to word innovation and *new* bad words are searchable again? Aside from the social questions, it is a difficult engineering question.
Low-density, car-dependent suburbs with Christmas Vacation City on the right.
https://skyline.github.com/matthewdeanmartin/2021
KATA: reverse a string, except semantically. So "I hate Mondays" becomes "I love Mondays" and the input space is all English sentences with polar opposites.
# Fizz this
lam = lambda num: "fizzbuzz" if num % 15 ==0 else "buzz" if num % 5 ==0 else "fizz" if num % 3 ==0 else f"{num}"
gen = (lam(i) for i in range(1,101))
[print(_) for _ in gen]
# Fizz faster
[print(_) for _ in ((lambda n: "fizzbuzz" if n % 15 ==0 else "buzz" if n % 5 ==0 else "fizz" if n % 3 ==0 else f"{n}")(i) for i in range(1,101))]♡ 0 ↻ 0
Huh, I asked the random walk question so often in interviews someone did a youtube video on it
(and I had it posted in my python easy kata repo on github)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfS2H1y6tzQ
(no credit to me deserved or needed, the original idea was from a stats book I read in college.)
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The world needs something like `caniusepython3` except, `caniusepython3.11` and 3.12, and 3.13 and so on. https://pypi.org/project/caniusepython3/
It is the Bud Light "Dilly Dilly Dilly" campaign. Didn't know you could do ads like that. https://x.com/justplainmk/status/1523620938712985600
That crap microphone on your laptop or webcam? Sounds great if you can keep your mouth within ~2 inches of the mic. So for better sound quality, this is how I'll zoom from now on. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1523399887383003136/photo/1
A $500 mic is $5 for the mic and $495 for being able to position it close to your mouth.
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Do hammered dulcimer players risk alcoholism?
Shopping on Wayfair: "Is this a sectional couch for ANTS?! No really, I have no sense of scale for these pictures"
OMG- is my mic volume on Zoom that irregular? I need a blinking red light every time I get too quiet to hear I guess.
*be heard
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Vote for my youtube personality
(that #2 is ferris bueler teacher, #3 is "Journey to Microcosmos... slow and sleepy). Be yourself is advice from selection bias-- successful YouTubers can "just be themselves" because they're not sure what it was that made them successful
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thinking about the idea that techies should move on every 1-2-3 years. On one hand, your best work happens pretty soon, on the other hand, handing off a code base means a huge loss of velocity and odds that it will just fall apart.
a balanced approach:
- the project failed, move on in at most 3 years
- the project succeeded, keep moving it forward... if you can (the more legacy code you got, the more mud to wade thru to do simple things)♡ 0 ↻ 0
I should make a blog of all the accidental blog posts I've written in boxes that were not blog posting boxes:
https://github.com/rickardp/splitstream/issues/13#issuecomment-1120246813
Hypothesis: learning how to do recorded screenshare will become an important remote worker skill.
I'm reviewing screenshare/record tools
- Twitch Studio, uh...
- OBS, uh... I see UX is not in the name
- Ah ha! Zoom has record! I'm going to practice on that first.♡ 0 ↻ 0The source code is so small! Time to re-record this in Presentation Mode with the text so large it is painful (to me) and that should be large enough for a youtube window
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"Consult with your doctor, lawyer, etc before proceeding" as if they're free!
"Buy an limo, mansion, jet, and aircraft carrier before proceeding" it's only prudent!
99.9999999% the audience will not, it is an elaborate way to say, "don't blame me if you follow my advice and things go wrong"
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These apes do not exist (generated apes, but not generated in the same way the original ones were)
https://www.ykilcher.com/apes
No one showed up at the party, sad ape. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1522910575235379200/photo/1
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trying out polyglot programming
> git log --oneline
c8ecaa2 Блять
4d47313 helvítis
b9fa1f2 zut alors
d7379f8 merde
7e9a76a 씨발
Huh, 10 out of 21 pypi libraries I targeted now have wheels. Depressing, but not as depressing as I figure it would be. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1467538845281529862
Implicit product endorsements (things I pay money for)
- Rescue Time
- Clozemaster, Duolingo
- Amazon, Youtube Music
- Youtube Red, Amazon Video, Disney Plus
- Jetbrains IDEs, Pluralsight
- Circleboom
- AWS hosting
- Nytimes, WaPo
Weak endorsements (I used to pay for these)
- Wakatime
- Comixology
- Kindle Unlimited♡ 0 ↻ 0Well, I think I figured out why I'll be impoverished in my retirement years.
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Yeah! Relative to my natural abilities, I should get the Nobel Prize in Computer Science. You get a Nobel! You get a Nobel! You all get Nobel Prizes! https://x.com/gravity_levity/status/1522555599862611971
But there are so many stack overflow questions that say environment variables the most secure thing ever. https://x.com/jacobian/status/1522068542157246465
Oh what a mess- if I want to use poetry to package and pip-audit to check depencies, I need a pyproject.toml file with a [tool.poetry] section and a [project] section with roughly the same info: https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/
And for reasons, I'm using pipenv to install dependencies, so I got 1 of those per version of python supported.
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I read a bio on twitter that said "mom of 13 year old twins", I thought, damn, 26 toddlers.
Yes this is a re-run. https://x.com/mistersql/status/595709300141629442
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Verifying myself: I am matthewmartin on http://Keybase.io. duKquKEEnzrmXpSSgLq6Ha0LGg_OR6dR1E5u / https://keybase.io/matthewmartin/sigs/duKquKEEnzrmXpSSgLq6Ha0LGg_OR6dR1E5u
and I can't delete this tweet or keybase thinks I no longer control this account. sigh.
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Increasingly sort of like being an American, where elections have consequences...in 50 years when the Supreme Court justices die or in 50 years when your preferred party can change voter laws to stop guaranteeing a Republican win. https://x.com/kamilkazani/status/1521865500178923520
May you be with the FORTH. Go write some FORTH
https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-forth-online/
I've been looking for this link ever since @CovidActNow nerfed their maps and stopped reporting anything actionable. Just because it looks like DMV is going to be red, what 1/4-1/3 of the year forever doesn't mean I don't what to know. https://x.com/BecomingDataSci/status/1521522598315794432
tired: top 8 friends
wired: circle of 150 friends
Not sure what to do with this yet. I guess on my accounts that have a split audience, I could make some tweets more targeted.
like this account- it is tech (people all over the world now), but used to be DC, DMV, MD techies who care what I have to say about the Metro
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IDEA: still alcohol-free hard seltzer water. $$$$
Challenges in WFH for two companies
1- Conflicting meetings
2- Keeping straight the lies https://twitter.com/tinkertim/status/1521466541182791680
And LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn profile will at best show only one of your personas.
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Any Jr python developers want to work on my team? Govtech, remote, apply here: https://www.artemisconsultinginc.com/list-of-positions
They should cross-promote with SEC about the dangers of rug pulls. https://x.com/USCPSC/status/1521233477345198085
I saw most of Ron's Gone Wrong- a kids movie, but reminded me of being 8 and trying to program a chatbot in Atari BASIC because I had so few friends at school (changing schools is brutal if you're socially incompetent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%27s_Gone_Wrong
Now waiting for new vids to pop up in the RSS feed to start the #PyConUS2022 youtube couch party...