I am a grumpy dragon, apparently

#Reading #Books
https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114320970330710584

#reading, #books

#LoveDeathAndRobots was made specifically with me in mind.

I’ve loved every single volume

https://mastodon.social/@hypercritical/114314727817895234

#LoveDeathAndRobots

@jetbrains,
do you have a learn #goland video series anywhere. the goland playlist on youtube is a muddled list of very interesting things I could do with things *in* goland

is there a structured set of videos, that I could use to get familiar with my editor? I have a yearly subscription to all the editors.

#goland

The kids are alright!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2trB3XJSI

#Humour #StandUp #Comedy #WomensSafety

#humour, #standup, #comedy, #womenssafety

And I thought only I did crazy #RSS hacks 😂

@ChrisHardie beats the pants off anything I do 😂

“Fine. Whatever. I used to spend time trying to work around individual fingerprinting and blocking mechanisms, but I got tired of that. So now I pay about $25/year for access to rotating residential IP addresses to serve as proxies for my requests.”

“I don’t like supporting these providers but when I come to make an RSS feed of your content, it will look like it’s from random Jane Doe’s home computer in some Virginia suburb instead of a VPS in a data center.”

“Look what you made me do.”

https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/

#rss

All my highlights from Math for English Majors by #BenOrlin, he of the lovely #Maths apology blog and even lovelier stick figures

https://janusworx.com/reading/math-for-english-majors-ben-orlin/

#Arts #Math #Mathematics #Books #Reading

#BenOrlin, #maths, #arts, #math, #mathematics, #books, #reading

Upgraded to #Emacs 30.1!

a couple of slight hiccoughs compiling. but all’s well that ends well.

#emacs

forgot to do a make -j 4 compiling emacs today. I now appreciate multi/parallel processing so much more :)

“the best way to have it is by talking, which is an unbelievably high-bandwidth communication channel compared to those little text boxes.

In other words, code should be pair-reviewed as well as pair-programmed. For example, Aisha and Chiku could get on a screen-share and look at the code together, asking questions, making suggestions, explaining ambiguities, and highlighting potential problems.

Tone of voice and even facial expressions convey a lot of extra information that would otherwise be lost, and somehow, people are always gentler and more respectful to each other in person than they are when typing messages back and forth.

…

Pair review like this isn’t always possible, though, so when a code review happens textually, that means we need to *take even more care about what we say and how we say it* ” (emphasis, mine)

— John Arundel, on code review in “Death of a thousand nits”

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/code-review

Tone of voice and being kinder than you need to be is something I’ve hammered into my young mentees, since … well, ever since I’ve had young mentees

Also grateful to @pradhvan, @mandarvaze and #AnjaliPardeshi for being kind to me when I worked with them!

#AnjaliPardeshi

“I had let the constant onslaught of bad news convince me that unless I singlehandedly turned the tide, there was no point in trying.

No. I wouldn’t ask that of anyone else, I shouldn’t ask it of myself.

I’ll tell a stupid joke. I’ll tell a story making an obscure reference that not even a tenth of my readers will get. I will tell a shaggy dog story with an atrocious pun. And if even one person’s day has been made brighter by it, it’s worth doing.

And who knows, I might write something that is wise, or profound, or uplifting too.

I have decided to be kinder to myself, and to keep writing. I’ve reached double digits so far in February, and I’m having fun with it.”

— @MicroSFF

• Lower the bar
• Be kind(er) to yourself
• Keep showing up!
  https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114054964132451777