@pointerish

Software Engineer | Toolmaker on the side | Opinions are my own

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I love how BEAM languages embrace each other. Like a big-loving-functional family. #myelixirstatus
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Didn’t know the “418 I’m a teapot” HTTP response status existed: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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Daniel Kelley
@danielmakelley10 Apr 2023
Encoding, hashing, encryption & obfuscation often causes confusion. Here's a simple explanation of all 4 of them: cybersecurityandgrowth.subst…
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CNC machines can build *perfect* electric guitars and yet some people pay a premium to have a handmade one built by a luthier. Maybe in the future people will pay a premium to have a human programmer write their software instead of an AI for the sake of “handmade code”.
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John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack18 Mar 2023
From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.
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Going from reading up on Django’s Queryset docs to woodworking joinery is an interesting mood.
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Having done this a lot of times I can vouch for its veracity.
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Gonna be taking a carpentry class this year starting in a few weeks and I'm excited. 😃
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These are the first set of frets I remove. These were on an acoustic guitar and are so old and flat I had to dig them out of the fretboard using a cutter. Luckily the guitar is mine, otherwise someone would be really angry because of how that fretboard looks right now. 🫣
Old guitar frets

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I've decided to start making electric guitars. I'll start with kits and then I'll progress into building everything from scratch myself. My first attempts will surely suck, but it'll be awesome to have an instrument I made with my own hands.
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I'm reaching that age where one gets interested in woodworking.
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The latest documentary from @Fall_of_Civ_Pod was absolutely great. Go ahead and learn: youtu.be/0MtIVJ2lcu8
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Working with team-player senior engineers is nice. You ask them something, they help you out, and a while later they check if you made progress and always offer more support if you happen to need it. It's kinda cool to be honest.
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Bob Nystrom@munificentbob3 Nov 2022
Lispers: Lisp is the most beautiful language, so elegant that it wasn't so much created as discovered, as timeless as mathematics itself—which it of course is. Lisp: LOL my two most common functions are named after CPU instructions from a weird-ass chip that IBM made in the 50s.
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Software that records every single thing you do on your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
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It's very likely that code written today will become the future's Lascaux or Altamira.
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I think I will never get to the point where I can bring myself to purchase a font license. That might change, of course, but at the moment I don't see why I'd do that.
I really hate that MacOS makes me install xcode tools again every time there's an update. That sucks.
Yesterday I wrote some Typescript and I liked it. 🙂
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Isn't it funny when successful entrepreneurs think all their opinions are brilliant just because of their financial success? It's hilarious.
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It turns out this is not the exclusive to Enum functions. Anonymous functions can also pattern match on their arguments and that's what's going on here.
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