The more available information is, the more I find I need to respond sooner.
Sure, I could respond to a message about meeting up at any point. But if I don't respond promptly, I rarely have the context to prompt me later.
I find "now or never" to be more common!
miniblog.
I built a thing this weekend: autogenerated emoji summaries for my new blog/wiki!
It's remarkable that memes are such an established medium that there are reference sites that research their origins: https://knowyourmeme.com/
Perhaps it will become a topic of scholarly research in time?
I'm finding myself using icon fonts like font awesome much less these days. There's a ton of emoji available without waiting for the browser to download a font.
The npm ecosystem is amazingly broad and deep. I can grab a utility library for choosing a random item from an array, or a part-of-speech tagger for analysing text!
Even vehicles come with apps! https://youtu.be/0JgCn8-aETA?t=276
Building a device that will automatically power cycle your router if you have no internet access! https://hackaday.com/2019/11/02/router-rebooter-without-the-effort/
It feels like a solution at the wrong level of abstraction, but it has a certain elegance.
MuZero is more general than AlphaGo and plays slightly better despite using less compute: https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/20/deepminds-muzero-teaches-itself-how-to-win-at-atari-chess-shogi-and-go/
It's a lot harder to replace components that are lower down in a stack.
Does this mean that designs tend to be better for higher level components? x86 has been around for a long time and has plenty of features we'd change in hindsight.
An entertaining discussion of game economies, emergent metagames, and warthogs:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/18/planet-zoo-is-temporarily-a-game-about-mass-producing-knackered-warthogs/
An entertaining discussion of game economies, emergent metagames, and warthogs:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/18/planet-zoo-is-temporarily-a-game-about-mass-producing-knackered-warthogs/
Generating private keys for wallets, using poor seed data, enabling others to access the contents: https://umanovskis.se/blog/post/leaky-faucet/
A deep dive into Tokio's scheduler implementation, including exhaustively testing all possible state orderings with Loom! https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler/
I really enjoy meeting people who work with APIs that are directly tied to money. Financial services, gambling sites, and similar.
They tend to have excellent stories about bugs.
.org moving to a for-profit company and removing price caps for renewals: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
Today I learnt that you can put emoji in domains, although support varies wildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
Today I learnt that you can put emoji in domains, although support varies wildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
After a few years of programming, I noticed it affected my outlook on other parts of life.
I notice exceptions to patterns way more. In code, it's a bug or deserves a comment!
I'm also much more aware of ambiguities in sentences, even minor ones.
Have you experienced this?
Apparently sqlite does not enforce foreign key integrity by default! That's incentive to use something else even for prototypes/small apps.
https://stackoverflow.com/q/15301643/509706 https://twitter.com/_wilfredh/status/1195783852427481088
There's a tension between 'editing content' commands and 'change UI' commands when undoing.
Usually you don't want to undo e.g. zooming, just edits. I've seen novices accidentally change UI and get stuck though.
Perhaps UI customisation should be minimised?
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