Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Few non-programmers know that less than 10% of a programmer’s productive time is spent actually writing code. A typical programmer actually spends around 70% of their working day desperately Googling to try to find the answers, while the remaining 20% is taken up closing all the tabs they opened.

#AmCoding #Programming

https://youtu.be/aiVkyD1yzJg

Get to know a Gen Xer.

Sit beside them and learn their stories, of wall-mounted phones with long extension cords and going to the airport gate unticketed without passing through security.

Listen with them as they delight in the music of their youth, the songs that only they now keep alive — the songs of Cyndi, and both Eddies, and Dave.

Very soon the last Gen Xer will be passing from this realm to the next, and then they will belong to the ages. Get to know one now — before it’s too late.

Who learned to type on a real typewriter?

#poll

Please boost for a wider demographic.

WTF? Uninstall the Nightowl App, now. Spread the word. https://robins.one/notes/uninstall-the-nightowl-app-now.html

Okay, #Meeps (#Mastodon #Peeps)!

I'm officially looking for a job!
My specialty is perl, macOS, Linux, MySQL, SQLite, etc...

If anyone knows of anything, please let me know. I will #remote if they allow - I'm in Central Florida.

Thanks for any boosts!

I'm on linked in:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jann-gobble-24651036/

It is getting harder to recommend that anybody come work for my company. Last week the EH&S team tried to force people that were using personal or rented vehicles to transport company equipment to go through training about Defensive Driving Small Vehicles. Holy crap these people are out of touch. Lawyers drive this company now and not reasonable people.

You get to the end of the course you are teaching and students conclude it was a waste of time. How do you respond?

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Periodic PSA!

I use lots of graph paper, so I made a LaTeX template to print my own. It was so handy that @duetosymmetry and I turned it into a LaTeX package.

There are various grid styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc), and both custom and pre-defined color schemes.

Use it to easily print your own paper, or to make pdf page templates for your favorite tablet note-taking app. I use them with GoodNotes & Notability.

Github: https://github.com/mcnees/LaTeX-Graph-Paper
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers?lang=en

When you think, do you have an internal dialogue that includes words?

Boost if you're interested.

Zoom ordered no more work from home for its employees because someone in legal read the new Zoom ToS and was shocked by what Zoom can now do with the content of Zoom calls.

@takeitev
Platform maturity.

It always happens. Any new movement the best people move first and the average and terrible ones arrive later.

When CrossFit appeared my fittest friends jumped on that.

When Twitter started my friends who could best describe their day in 140 characters went there.

When Gab started all the racists got in first.

Now Mastodon has the most interesting people and the nasty posters are arriving here too to pad out the ranks.

This is an excellent time to be skeptical consumers of legal takes and be cautious about both Trumpist pseudo-legal disinformation and Resistance pseudo-legal wishcasting.

We drove #electriccar to Paris recently and back, via Dieppe - no worries.
Last December I drove to Berlin and back. Again, each drive took about 10 hours with couple of stops - no problems.

Stop believing nonsense in the media. It's a moaning of either corrupt people or let's just say - less gifted in the upstairs apartment - who think their privilidges is just a norm. #climate #ElectricVehicles #climateaction

Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker

Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested