My April Cool silly blog on how to start playing the 1980s rogue game. https://oskipa.github.io/getting-started-with-rogue.html
April Cool is when you share a nice random blog topic, instead of making cruel pranks, on April 1
on gamification: perhaps inducing addiction is not a good idea
RacketLang question: when starting, I should stick to #lang racket, right?
We should start giving out the Rushies, a statue of a smirking Stockton Rush of the Titan submersible fame.
The Rushies honor CEOs who practice MBA-driven engineering that creates products that spectacularly put lives in danger.
The Boeing 737 Max is the flying Tesla.
Asking here since google is broken.
Can I write a function in #Scheme with a series of expressions in them? As in do a, then do b, then do c?
@shriramk As you remember your professor, let me use this moment to thank you for How to Design Programs. I found it through a MOOC in the last decade. I was out of college and already working as a software developer.
It changed the way I write programs. My tests became better. It sparked my ongoing interest in writing good developer documentation.
I am that elusive student that never went to your university or even took an online class with you. We never met in person. I have only learned from your book and some recordings from your lectures. Yet your teachings have has a profound impact in my professional life and in those of my colleagues.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with so many people like me. Even if it is rare when we get a chance to express it to you,there are many of us who deeply appreciate your work and generosity
I worked on AOC on my personal laptop. Got my two stars. I run the input file from my work account. My input number is too high 🤔
LLMs remind me of the blockchain: interesting tech that looks promising, but it is hard to find a real practical use for them
On how small disruptions on your daily routine can derail month long habits, like practicing music daily, or doing 10 minutes of free writing every day
@loke I started working through your tutorial. So far, it is pretty good. There is a minor detail that can be improved so far, which is saying how to type the negative character. I can do the edit if you are open to pull requests.
Again, very pleasant. I have been burnt out from learning programming this year due to the AWS dev cert, and your tutorial has been a delight to work through
We need to encourage talking about humanities in professional engineering spaces because technology are tools for humans, and we must understand humans to create good tools.
Functional Cafe is an example of what be ideal: talking about tech and talking about math, philosophy, history, music, and literature. It all informs each other
Using ethnography and archeological methods for creating dev documentation. How to organize my documentation repo and documentation in our existing repos.
I don't know what's the question, but the answer is LISP
Still soft burned out on tech. It sort of makes me sad, but it is hard to study.
Reading literature, philosophy, and learning dancing instead.
The irrationality of the big tech layoffs highlights the lack of power regular workers have in our current economic system.
By firing people at random, ignoring track records, tenure, hours worked, it highlights the futility of performance, loyalty, and work ethic in corporate companies.
Why try hard when you can be fired just as easily as those who don't? Why have loyalty to those who proudly tell you that they have none for you?