(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

An observation on the effects of two different helpers trying to get a novice set up on a complex system. The expert tried to follow elaborate work-arounds, editing deep system files, and juggling aliases. The master was able to keep it simple, making few changes and following a short, immutable path. Mastery is simplicity, even in tech.

One of those days where we are fixing lots of stuff, but in the most unsatisfying ways. "I clicked this button and now it's working, and I can't break it again..."

haha. Just killed the browser window that was running slack (I forgot I had that open) and watched my resting CPU usage improve by half, 16% -> 6-8%.

Does anyone know how Zoom manages its live captions? In house, or contracting some service like Google?

Does anyone know how Zoom manages its live captions? In house, or contracting some service like Google?

This week I am going to try "doom scrolling" my RSS feed (elfeed) instead of my social sites. Let's see what that does for my focus and time usage, and whether that helps or hinders my awareness of new helps.

@icedquinn which meant absolutely nothing to me before this morning :)

I just became aware of org-drill for flashcard functionality in orgmode, from this person who used it practice guitar. It looks poised to join Spray (speed reading) as emacs tools that upgrade my lifestyle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraPXeLfWcM
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/w6d3jb/guitar_theory_with_org_drill/
https://jherrlin.github.io/guitar-theory-training/

final result:

The power of regexps and emacs. Turn copy-pasted strings into #clojure data-structures of three items. This would be much harder without lisp syntax.

@veer66 Clearly Rich Hickey came from Java before Lisp :)

@veer66 Uh oh... that led me to confirm: it is `ceil` in c++, too. So history is to blame on all this convention!

@veer66 Right you are! Clojure must have just grabbed the same name as Java. Still confusing for those of us who have not used Java in a long while. https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=java+math+ceiling

@veer66 is `ceil` the Java way? (jvm is byte code, so not what we're typing)

Well, that was annoying. Clojure.math/floor must have an opposite, right? But contrary to normal #clojure style, I had to look up the documentation to find out why it wasn't "ceiling"

It seems that unit testing and private functions are opposed by convention in #clojure Cider and presumably other places -- a fact that can make TDD difficult since, hey -- I need to test that each line of the data spec is handled properly, but those shouldn't be exposed to library users. Solution settled on making a quasi-private namespace where we hide things that drive the main api functions -- technically still public, but documented for clients.

To listen
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RT @borkdude
Highly recommend listening to this episode. At least for me, many things resonated with me. 🤯 https://twitter.com/fngeekery/status/1549333276350971904
https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1549753160494981120