"Welcome to ... "knowledge work," ... you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you're afraid you might. ... Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work ... the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is ... the key question ... There is usuall no right answer; there are choices instead." ... We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it ... Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes and requisite next actions is something few people feel they have to do (until they have to),"
-- "Getting Things Done", page 16
This is something that really surprised me when I first started a career after college. I was surprised. I still regularly try to explain this feeling to newcomers - I typically lump it in with the personal quality of "taking initiative". It's interesting to me that here it's defined without that word - and that it's intrinsic to all knowledge work.
Needed a tutorial creating an #AWS Lambda function in #Python using the new function URL integration. So I wrote one. It's for a basicist-of-the-basics class.
https://blog.notmet.net/2022/06/aws-lambda-function-url-hello-world/
The Tiny Tiny RSS app will no longer be in the Google Play store... It seems like that'll lead to fewer users discovering it, and further slow death of RSS in general 😥
https://community.tt-rss.org/t/i-no-longer-publish-anything-on-google-play/5408#post_1
That thing where you put on your headphones so you don't have to listen to the person behind you's bullshit.
Former Reddit boss on social network censorship https://lemmy.ml/post/232564
Rust Number Conversion - Don't Follow the Book...
https://blog.notmet.net/2021/12/rust-number-conversion-dont-follow-the-book.../
Done in Blender's Grease Pencil at Hack and Craft. The first draft was here: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/107906227587074723
This is the first 2d animation thing I've ever done. I feel pretty good about it!
These episodes and shorts are great - Taskmaster
new original post! understanding higher-kinded types https://danso.ca/blog/higher-kinded-types/
Computer science guy, electrical engineer, US Air Force officer, jogger, likes teaching programming, aka KC0BFV.
Likes programming in: Rust, Python, JavaScript, C
Reluctantly uses: Roku's BrightScript, C++, anything