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andrew_chou

@andrew_chou@toot.cafe

Senior dev at Digital Democracy 🌎 • Former core dev at Manyverse • occasionally none too happy 🐝

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andrew_chou, to nyc
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wondering if there's a space like @offline in NYC. Know of a couple of hackerspaces but they feel a bit different (based on very limited research and experience...).

Also just generally looking for more folks who align with things you see on https://offline.place/ and would like to hang out/collaborate 🤔 after attending p4p, it's clear that I want more in-real-life interactions 😄

#nyc #offline #p4p

andrew_chou,
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@DanielSincere it's great! had a blast hanging out there this past weekend. lots going on throughout the year too!

andrew_chou,
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@DanielSincere also, underway looks awesome! right up my alley in terms of things I'd use regularly :)

lpil, to programming
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Gleam v1.2.0 is out! And oh boy is it a good one! You're gunna like it a whole bunch

https://gleam.run/news/fault-tolerant-gleam/

andrew_chou,
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@flypaper @lpil not at the moment, but I really should! been following the project for a very long time so just happy for its continued growth and success :)

would say it's a proper choice for building web-based applications end-to-end, amongst other things 👍

gwil, to random
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In Berlin this weekend for https://offline.place/events/2024/05/24/p4p-unconference/ , happy to talk about willow and/or sheep

andrew_chou,
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@gwil damn if I'd seen this sooner I would've just talked about sheep 🐑

andrew_chou, to random
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Open question: how do you go about finding mentorship in a field where you're considered quite experienced? what models have worked well for involved parties?

context is that although I'm a senior-ish level software dev, I somewhat sorely wish I had opportunities to have a mentor in areas of interest that I don't have guidance for. unfortunately my work doesn't have the resources for this, so I'm left to figure this out on my own if I want to set something up.

andrew_chou,
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@soatok I think one thing that I've maybe overanalysed is the idea that maybe I give off the idea that I don't need this kind of mentoring, because of my experience level? like especially if you just have a cursory knowledge of who I am, one could assume "oh they're a senior dev, they don't need a mentor".

maybe can be more eloquently explained 😅

andrew_chou,
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I've been a mentor in the past, but the relationship was always a pairing of "completely inexperienced" person with "working profressional in field of interest".

The thing I'm asking more about is "working progressional who has this potentially unrelated/tangential interest" paired with "working professional who works in field of interest".

andrew_chou,
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@soatok yeah I think that's the strategy I've naturally opted for and how I've ended up in the spaces I'm in.

Think there are some topics where having a more structured relationship would be helpful (for me). Hard to arrange that kind of thing though, based on my previous experiences

andrew_chou,
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@soatok yeah fully agree!

> The question is whether one exists, or if you must turn inward instead.

this is part of the struggle for me - I'm not explicit enough about what I'm seeking, hence I never find out if one exists and end up doing my own thing 😄

andrew_chou, to random
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thinking about performance benchmarks when it comes to JavaScript frameworks. resources like https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark are fun to poke around but the implementations are (probably) very well optimized or idiomatically written to get the best results possible.

What would be more interesting is having a sample of randos doing the implementations and then taking the medians/means and see how they compare to the (presumably) best case scenario.

andrew_chou,
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like, it's cool if X does super well in this benchmark but if the average developer writes something very subpar compared to the best implementation, what does that say about X?

andrew_chou,
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this methodology could apply to any kind of benchmark. it's kind of a nice reminder that "real-world" is probably much different than best-case.

the ones I'm interested in are the ones where the difference is smallest

andrew_chou, to random
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In Berlin next month (May 19-26). anyone to meet, things to see, places to eat?? 👀

andrew_chou,
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I am in Berlin - disappointed by the lack of responses to my original post 😤

time to add a tag I guess

andrew_chou,
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@blag wow so wildly specific (but unsurprising 😁). thanks for the suggestion!

andrew_chou,
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@carlschwan had Ruyam on my list and actually went to Sahara Imbiss last night (was good!) - so seems like I'm on the right track 😄

andrew_chou,
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@kirill that's why I'm here in the first place 😉 but awesome that you're bringing stuff! definitely caught my eye when I first saw it

andrew_chou, to tcl
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I fell into a tcl/tk rabbithole today...

andrew_chou,
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dammit I fell back into this rabbithole again 🫠

andrew_chou, to random
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first time I've seen something like this: buy a USB stick containing the content of interest

https://www.elektor.com/products/the-rf-communications-collection-usb-stick

have no idea what the practicality or reasoning of this is, but I find it interesting nonetheless 😄

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