I recently realised that a lot of podcasts I listen to provoke anger, sadness or annoyance. Can you recommend me podcasts that makes you feel calm, inspired, happy or thoughtful?
this morning's #joy is brought to you by blueberries from my #garden, and a #coffee mug with my newest assignment on it: I'm going to be a grandmother in November!
I've heard other people talk about falling down Reddit holes over the years, but I was never this engaged on Reddit. I posted maybe a handful of times. I'd usually browse r/popular/top set to desktop version in Firefox on mobile without logging in. Here, though, I'm literally losing sleep and hours pass because the energy, the...
Whichever one of you glorious folks spent today listening to most of my back catalog, I just wanted to say THANKS. Especially as I see mostly/nearly all complete listens/no skips!
I typically focus my promotion on my latest material, so it's always gratifying to see someone has, of their own volition, decided to engage deeply with my older work.
If that was you and you see this, holler, I want to give you some free download codes if you want them.
I finally have an app that allows me to identify the plants in my yard and holy goddess do I have a lot of freaking plants in my yard. Not only do I have a lot of diverse beautiful plants but I have learned that I have two cherry trees four apple trees a whole bunch of different blackberry and raspberry bushes tons and tons of wild strawberries. Plus I found some really good witchy stuff like witches purse and Buttercup and yarrow. There's a lot going on on this 2.3 Acres chunk of land. #plants#botony#joy#DontMowYourLawn
Our lime tree, which has been dormant (blossoms but no fruit) for THREE YEARS has just come widdit and I am watching with utter delight as no fewer than TWLEVE limes are growing this year!
Resurfaced briefly for some more tea and cake (and paracetamol 😔 ).
Further to my earlier message, I realise there may be some soulless wretches among you who don't like The Princess Bride. If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself in this category, please go and sit in the corner where I can't see you, and think about the choices you've made in life.
A weird thing about being 50 is that there are programming languages that I've used regularly for longer than some of the software developers I work with have been alive. I first wrote BASIC code in the 1980s. The first time I wrote an expression evaluator--a fairly standard programming puzzle or homework--was in 1990. I wrote it in Pascal for an undergraduate homework assignment. I first wrote perl in the early 1990s, when it was still perl 4.036 (5.38.2 now). I first wrote java in 1995-ish, when it was still java 1.0 (1.21 now). I first wrote scala, which I still use for most things today, in 2013-ish, when it was still scala 2.8 (3.4.0 now). At various times I've been "fluent" in 8086 assembly, BASIC, C, Pascal, perl, python, java, scala; and passable in LISP/Scheme, Prolog, old school Mathematica, (early days) Objective C, matlab/octave, and R. I've written a few lines of Fortran and more than a few lines of COBOL that I ran in a production system once. I could probably write a bit of Haskell if pressed but for some reason I really dislike its syntax so I've never been enthusiastic about learning it well. I've experimented with Clean, Flix, Curry, Unison, Factor, and Joy and learned bits and pieces of each of those. I'm trying to decide whether I should try learning Idris, Agda, and/or Lean. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few languages. Bit of 6502 assembly long ago. Bit of Unix/Linux shell scripting languages (old enough to have lived and breathed tcsh before switching to bash; I use fish now mostly).
When I say passable: in graduate school I wrote a Prolog interpreter in java (including parsing source code or REPL input), within which I could run the classic examples like append or (very simple) symbolic differentiation/integration. As an undergraduate I wrote a Mathematica program to solve the word recognition problem for context-free formal languages. But I'd need some study time to be able to write these languages again.
I don't know what the hell prompted me to reminisce about programming languages. I hope it doesn't come off as a humblebrag but rather like old guy spinning yarns. I think I've been through so many because I'm never quite happy with any one of them and because I've had a varied career that started when I was pretty young.
I guess I'm also half hoping to find people on here who have similar interests so I'm going to riddle this post with hashtags:
Has anyone else been losing track of time in the Fediverse?
I've heard other people talk about falling down Reddit holes over the years, but I was never this engaged on Reddit. I posted maybe a handful of times. I'd usually browse r/popular/top set to desktop version in Firefox on mobile without logging in. Here, though, I'm literally losing sleep and hours pass because the energy, the...