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TODO: convince all journalists talking about legacy COBOL to remind everyone that it is legacy COBOL and Assembler that needs to be translated. People can learn COBOL on a holiday, people master Assembler when they're at the peak of the low level coding career.
Poetry broke `poetry shell` it has been moved to a plugin and
`eval $(poetry env activate)` doesn't work.
My personal productivity system is simple.
Spend 3 months working on filling in my TODOs in my journal
Do the TODOs for 9 months. Actually, doing the SOMETHING-ELSEs, but oh well.
```go
func main() {
tmpl := "I will be switching from {{.Language1}} to {{.Language2}} for posting source code jokes to mastodon 10x faster"
data := struct {
Language1 string
Language2 string
}{
Language1: "English",
Language2: "golang",
}
t, err := template.New("message").Parse(tmpl)
err = t.Execute(os.Stdout, data)
}
```
All I got to say here is that I will never for the rest of my life ever buy a Tesla. I'll get a Chevy electric car.
That is a lot of likes from crypto scammers. I think I see why the site here is going down today.
I'm late to the time traveller's club. Oh wait, I'm not, nevermind.
TODO: get inventory of assets in prod by running aws-nuke (dry run)
```
aws-nuke nuke --force --quiet -c aws-nuke-config.yml
```
The brand "Field Notes" says, "I am willing to pay 3x to 4x time more for paper than if I bought it from abroad"
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Notes-Kraft-Graph-3-Pack/dp/B006CQT2KU/
Pocket notebook to replace your phone? The inventor of the palm pilot used a block of wood and it made him happy.
Time to return to tradition
https://pretotyping.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-of-my-favorite-pretotype-stories.html
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Governments (Democrats in NY, CA, etc) that prevent house building, training building create the environment for Trump & company to win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwjxVRfUV_4&ab_channel=TheEzraKleinShow
Microsoft shopping appears to also steal commissions from youtubers, etc.
Except unlike the c1 and honey extensions, MS Shopping is automatically bundled and enabled with Edge & you have to go into settings to turn it off.
https://milberg.com/news/class-action-microsoft-shopping-affiliate-lawsuit/
I'm being scientific now. Gotta do experiments, hypothesis & see **if**:
- Washi tape makes me more productive
- Fountain pens increase IQ
- 1506gm notebook paper gets promotions at work
- 3 highlight colors will result in 30% more todo items done
Maybe tho that is how notebooks work today. The social pressure of maintaining a notebook and making it pretty is what gets you to follow through on your own plans.
Buy American? Okay, take notebooks.
- US Made: $20+
- Chinese $8-$10
There would need to be a 100% tariff and realistically speaking, production would shift to Vietnam. At 150%-200% on the world, production would shift to the US or Mexico if NAFTA still existed.
US policy should instead be about how to do domestic manufacturing with high tech equipment, robots, machinery, IT. We're not going to get rich creating minimum wages jobs making notebooks by hand.
Hard to find comparable dotted notebook in US, 3 packs of smaller notebooks $15-$20.
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@colo_lee The best, I'm putting pambazos on my TODO list, got the soychorizo in the fridge & ready to go
I've been using a notebook for a week. Observations:
- Handwriting is so slow. OMG. I want my keyboard back.
- Personal productivity systems (PPSs) are optimal for people without a boss, or with a job that is 80-90% unstructured, or for weekends and vacations when work-a-day structure collapses.
- Modern motivations are often related to behavioral addictions (lots of YouTube videos on "use a notebook, stop scrolling" and the like.
ALSO...
The systems are so much like programming. Create a bunch of data structures and unwritten programs that you will attempt to run on your brain on some cron schedule.
E.g. write down date, site, reason, emotions each time you end up on social media, fill a few pages and then review to see patterns. Or BuJo's calendars and constant copying of data from page to page. Clearly could benefit from the user of pointers.
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TODO: market my personal productivity system, GND: "Get Nothing Done"
Most people are already quite good at this, and I can make you better at it.
Ok! I'm ready to create a bullet journal & the notebooks I have laying around are all horizontal line journals. Shoot. I guess I'm going to have to invent a journal system specifically for horizontal line notebooks.
I'll get so much done after that!
Is gratitude journaling crypto-Christianity... let's check wikipedia. Ah there it is, the guy who studied it & published about it also taught the psychology of religion at uni.
Even Accountants/CPAs are expected to know python now.
I think this also means when ever any industry dump a lot of white collar people on the job market via layoffs, even more people are available to do general software development work.
My son is an electrical engineer- does a lot of C++ software development.
Are you in the US an cutting personal spending to prepare for a recession/depression?
Archived poll
- Yes, some9 votes
- Yes, by a lot4 votes
- No! spend! spend! spend!1 votes
- I'm not in the US. We got social safety nets.0 votes
14 voters
So every time I check social media or news, I'm making myself write down
time - reason - what
Does 2 thing so far:
- forces a habitual actual to become an action I must think about
- speed bump
- show patterns
So far the main pattern is, "something finished and I don't have a previously decided thing to do next"
@neurobashing Same. Infinite uncertainity.
At a measle party you don't (only) gain immunity to measles, you also lose immunity to all diseases.
Darwinism at work with parents killing their children.
We need to eradicate measles like we did smallpox or people like Trump, Musk and Kennedy will keep bringing it back.
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IDEA: App where all your data is stored on the phones of your friends instead of on a server. Surely this has been done before. Like file sharing but you're sharing rows of a database.
TODO: Write a 0 player D&D game as a way to learn the rules. I think it could be done with LLM agents, tool use for the mechanistic parts of the game (maps, dice, flow charts).
Reporter wants to talk to #18f people
Reading up on how to manage your finances should your income disappear. Pay only "the essentials...shelter, food, heat, lights, transportation, child care and phone. " Default on all the other bills.
Wait, that is, like, all my bills.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-not-to-pay-your-bills
So AWS #APIGateway has a stored-proc-like language VTL (Velocity) and it is similar to Jinja. If you use it, you can sometimes cut out the middleman (the AWS Lambda) and call some AWS service directly and let the Gateway handle auth, logging, etc. But now you got a limited, weird ass language in your stack.
I don't think this is a first-choice technology- it is a duct tape technology that lets maintenance developers do limited fixes to API calls if they don't control the backend server.
♡ 1 ↻ 0The other time I've seen this pattern is Lua scripts in REDIS and Elasticache-- Same pattern, you create a layer where the maintenance developers can try to fix something should they be unable to fix the other tiers. But now you have to have Lua capable devs on the team.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Back to API Gateway- you probably don't want to call your AWS services directly because VTL can't do complex logic, like batching API requests or conditionals, where you decide not to call the service. And that matters if the API call costs $
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How can we sleep while our beds are burning? Fire retardant chemicals have been added to your pajamas so that you can recklessly smoke in bed. Never mind that the chemicals are probably endocrine disruptive & carcinogenic.
And what is up with worrying about night cloths vs all day cloths? Put your sleeves over your gas range & you can set it on fire too.
Therapist: So what do we do when we feel depression or anxiety?
Me: https://github.com/new
Therapist: No, no, no, look at it, it's already at 183.
I'm chain drinking decaf and getting more level headed with each cup
Hey #Java developers, when I last did #dotnet development in C#, I got repetitive strain injuries, even after using Resharper. That was 10+ years ago.
If you write #java in #intellij in 2025- do you get RSI injuries? (Thumb and wrist pain)
This is one of the reasons why I could never get on board with coding in a text editor like notepad, vi, ed or edlin. Why maximize your RSI pains, no amount of the vibes you get from a text editor are worth the pain.
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Does anyone know how to get an honest job search count from LinkedIn? When I search, my top 100 results are "promoted" which means, some company paid to put their ad at the top of my search results that match my resume. So when I search for 'hibernate' so as to find out if employers want that skill, I can't actually see if any employers want the Java technology because my searches are dominated by promoted ads.
So if you're a bear and hibernation is what you do best, no way you're going to find your job on a site like that.
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The guy in front doesn't feel safe, everyone is chasing him
Finished reading "Spousonomics", how to apply economics and behavioral economics to your family life. Good book recommended.
And I read the paper version, part of my plan to rehabilitate my attention span.
Best city for software developer salary vs cost of living vs possibility of getting a job at all?
Others that I'm missing?
Archived poll
- Denver1 votes
- Arizona0 votes
- Dallas1 votes
- Pittsburg0 votes
2 voters
NY, SF, Boston = easy to get a job, mortgage will take all your salary
Detroit = houses are free, no jobs other than 100% remote workOther candidates on my list: North Carolina, maybe just going all in on remote work and living in Santa Fe.
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TODO: reinvent how I use my phone in favor of apps without infinite-scroll.
Algorithm recommended this to me:
♡ 1 ↻ 0The algorithm has realized we were mistake, the algorithm is harmful. It recommended this
♡ 0 ↻ 0(It posits that the solution to cell phone addiction is either
- tech & regulation to reduce addiction
- blaming the cell phone holder (personal responsibility!)
- OR changing social norms so it is rude to be on the phone every spare second, esp in social situations♡ 0 ↻ 0Unclosed paren to drive the software developers mad.
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