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Off to handstand class. I have been known to recommend to everyone within earshot doing challenging and/or silly physical things in a community. Not bucking the trend here.
Any conversation
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At moms house for the holiday weekend so the kids can see Nana. She has a "premium Plex" account on her tv serving a truly massive amount of content. Allegedly the brother of a long time friend is offering the "service". She says that the service will go down when the host is having outages, so the infra is likely local.
I brought my year this weekend. We are going to dig in to this guys operation. Intuition dictates that there is some hand rolled accounting going on. I'd like to see it.
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I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines.
Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.
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I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces.
Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity.
Hypertext is fascinating.
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Whatโs the difference between a script-kiddy and a real ? Abstraction. You can program your whole life without learning how to meaningfully abstract problems into simpler pieces that TRULY make the problem easier to understand.
Iโm not talking about design patterns or vs . These tools can help. But to really simplify something for others, you need an intellectual empathy that many simply never figure out.
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a constant, existential pull
so old I couldn't tell you the end
or draw its shape
between kind acceptance
and striving, struggling, writhing, climbing
learning, growing, discontent
"do you feel this way, too, at endless war with longing itself?"
but the birds and trees and ants and wind
in their own marvelous design
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Been working on an old mastodon hosting project I tried to start a few years ago, with a focus on privacy. This is the first big project I've tried to come back to with the help of coding agents and find it invigorating, and gives me the confidence to actually finish the project. Who knows if it will ever make a dollar, but it sure is fun to watch my ideas come to life.
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I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing
130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. wrote:
โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โขโฃโฃโ โ โข โ โขนโขณโขโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ
โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โกคโ โกโ โฃตโ โ โ โกโขธโ โขธโ โกโ โ โ โ โ โขโกดโ โ โกงโฃโฃโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ
โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โกฐโ โ โขฐโ โ โกโ โ โขฐโ โกโ โกโกโกโ โ โ โกฐโกฑโกโ โกโ โกโ โขโ โ โ คโกโ โ โ โ โ โ โ
โ โ โ โ โ โ โขโกโขโ โขโ โ โขโ โ ธโกโ โ โกโกโ โกโ โกโ โ โกฐโขกโกฑโ โกโขโ โขโขดโ โ โ โ โฃโกโกโ โ โ โ โ
โ โ โ โ โ โ โกโ โ นโฃฆโ โขโ โ โกโ โ ฑโ โ โขฐโขโ โขโขธโกโ โข โขโขงโ โกฐโขโ โข โกพโ โ โ โก โ โก โ โ โฃโ โ โ
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Ikea has rules for naming products (so in theory, you could figure out what it is from the name) -> www.ikea.com/โฆ/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-โฆ545a3948dc79.html