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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 hiring
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📣 Jobs Announcement 📣

Digital Democracy is looking for React Native Developer to help us build apps for Android and iOS! Come work with me on decentralized applications with real-world impact 😊

job details: https://apply.workable.com/digidem/j/96343A29BE/

org website: https://digital-democracy.org

boosts appreciated! 🙏

andrew_chou, to random
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damn this is super clever! there must be some notable caveats to this but not familiar enough with iframes to really know 🤔

https://leanrada.com/htmz/

andrew_chou, to random
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Today's random wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

stemming from recent thoughts I've had wondering what makes a programming language more "internationalizable". I consider myself very grateful that English is my first language and thus the barrier to entry and progression is much lower, but what about the rest of the world?

liaizon, to random
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woah cool, a new free domain registrar: https://obl.ong

register anything.obl.ong for free. super cool! just discovered it through clicking on something about https://hardfork.obl.ong which also looks interesting and was like thats a great domain name I wonder whats at the root
(yes I know this is technically just a free subdomain but whatever)

andrew_chou,
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@liaizon to clarify, this snippet refers to the foundation (written on the foundation site), not the domain registrar service.

the service itself is probably quite useful for people that participate in Hack Club (mostly high schoolers / young adults)

andrew_chou,
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@liaizon backed/run by The Hack Foundation, which is the org that runs Hack Club

https://the.hackfoundation.org/

https://hackclub.com/

andrew_chou,
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@liaizon

> Today's supporters include Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, Google.org, among many others and hundreds of individual supporters.

o...nahhhhh 😬

andrew_chou,
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@liaizon that's cool - not really trying to suggest otherwise. personally just wouldn't consider that snippet of text the flex they think it is 🤷‍♂️

andrew_chou, to programming
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📣 (Another) Jobs Announcement 📣

Digital Democracy is looking for a Senior Backend Developer! You'll be directly working on the technology that powers our offline-first and decentralized mapping applications!

job details: https://apply.workable.com/digidem/j/F243F84F41/

org website: https://digital-democracy.org

boosts (again) appreciated! 🙏

andrew_chou, (edited ) to FreeBSD
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no idea how far this will reach but let's try:

if I were to start learning more about one of the listed BSD operating systems, which would you recommend? Guessing the answer could be different if we're talking about daily desktop usage vs server, so maybe clarify your answer via a reply if you can (fwiw, probably more interested in daily desktop usage, but open to whatever too).

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

#tcl #tk

andrew_chou,
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dammit I fell back into this rabbithole again 🫠

andrew_chou, to random
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@Vivaldi seems like a recent update to the Android app has caused a notable regression in scroll performance when viewing sites (very jittery and laggy).

wondering if this is a known issue?

(Pixel 6 Android 14, Vivaldi 6.7.3335.45)

andrew_chou,
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@Vivaldi potentially similar issue, but the scroll perf issue is also present when using the "preview page" feature (which is one of my favorite features btw 😁)

andrew_chou,
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@Vivaldi yep, the address bar being visible definitely seems to be the culprit. Explains why scrolling down a page is fine (since the address bar disappears) but going up isn't (which causes the bar to reappear)

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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@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,
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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, to random
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seeing @lawik write/talk about @NervesProject is reminding me about my rpi that's collecting dust 👀

if I'm going to be learning Elixir, Nerves looks like a fun way of doing it (although it means more things to learn as a newbie 🥲

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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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 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,
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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 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 😅

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