trainingmontage

trainingmontage, 5 months ago to random

Risk A:
Do not learn React -> Do not get paid to write React

Risk B (possibly more dangerous):
Learn React -> Get paid to write React

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to StarTrek

My intention was to study for Friday's final exam.

Instead I watched #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds until midnight.

Probably the better choice, really.

trainingmontage, 4 months ago to random

I'm looking for awesome blogs with RSS feeds. I want to keep a solid selection of sites devoted to development (especially web development and the web platform), but feel free to let me know about any interesting sites you follow. I'm open to just about all suggestions.

I'll also use your suggestions to test out the functionality of the little RSS reader I'm working on.

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

Over here fantasizing about creating a continent-spanning network of solar powered New Packet Radio internet relays.

It would be nice to have a lo-fi Information network for when the sharks finish off the internet cables.

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

A few years back, I decided to explore a personally romanticized part of my heritage by reading about the Spanish Civil War. I was born outside of Madrid, and my mom's a Spaniard. I was looking for some connection to my grandparents, who I never met, and I had a lot of dumb ideas about some natural tendency toward antifascism in Spain (never mind that antifascism requires the presence of fascism in the first place).

Instead, I got a lesson in how these authoritarian takeovers happen. /1

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

You know you're in for a hell of a summer when a 108-degree high is a relief.

We hit 114 degrees early this week. This is West Texas, and we expect hot summers.

We don't generally expect them to be around 10 degrees hotter than Phoenix.

trainingmontage, 3 months ago to random

Learning golang has been really nice. I especially like the std library. It makes me wish JavaScript had the same thing.

Here's an example. Want your session to last 24 hours?

mySessionLifetime = 24 * time.Hour  

There's a lot more about the language I really like, especially the bare-bones simplicity. It's like the whole language was made so everyone's code looks like Angus Croll's Hemingway example.

https://anguscroll.com/hemingway/

trainingmontage, 1 year ago to internet

Wait. Why are web devs signing up for another closed platform (#BlueSky) when they could use an open standard like #ActivityPub?

Seems like a weird choice to me, especially considering their whole discipline is based on understanding and using open standards.

trainingmontage, 10 months ago to random

I've become more lactose intolerant as I've gotten older.

My fiancée, who loves to cook, especially desserts, makes cream-based desserts almost exclusively.

This is a white chocolate mousse with raspberry sauce (which she told me to let everyone know she strained because she remembered that I don't like raspberry seeds).

It's delicious.

trainingmontage, 7 months ago to django

#Django folks, I could use some help solving a problem:

I have an app that will let users upload csv files with varying schemas and filenames. I want to be able to map a given csv to an existing model without knowing exactly which model it will be beforehand.

In an early iteration I defined a "lookup table" dict that I checked, then dynamically imported the proper model to instantiate. It works, but I feel like there's probably a better way to do it.

Any ideas?

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

I think this is the first ratio I've seen on Mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110667962169426329

trainingmontage, 9 months ago to linux

I just got the itch to install a new #Linux distro over the weekend.

twitches

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to scifi

I feel like reading some #scifi but I want a specific kind. I don't know if there's a name for the subgenre that's essentially short-term, then long-term extrapolation about our future given our current technological and social state.

I'm thinking along the lines of Accelerando by @cstross, or Earth/Existence by David Brin.

Anyone have any #recommendations?

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

Hoooo, that feeling when you finish a final and the class, for better or worse, is over.

I'm gonna goof the hell off this weekend.

trainingmontage, 9 months ago to deaf

Okay, I need some recommendations from people who are still taking #covid precautions or anyone with experience in the #deaf or #HardOfHearing community.

Starting next week, I'm doing a research project with a professor who's #deaf/hard of hearing. I don't know #ASL, so I need a good clear #mask.

I would just ask him to mask, but I know the virus can hang around for hours.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to random

In times like these, I think to myself, "What would the French do?"

I'm not even going to share an image of what I think they'd do but you know Paris would be hot as hell right now.

trainingmontage, 1 year ago to random

If you ever catch me writing a steaming pile of propaganda horseshit like this, please launch me directly into the sun.

https://www.wired.com/story/pete-buttigieg-interview-god-beer-electric-mustang/

trainingmontage, 11 months ago to fediverse

Every time I talk about #ActivityPub I get excited about how cool it is that it's part of the web platform. Then I start thinking about how amazing the internet is.

Inevitably, I start thinking about how it started because a computer scientist at CERN thought "It would be great if we could link documents to each other and address them so they're accessible from any computer connected to the network... It should also be open source."

Incredible.

trainingmontage, 6 months ago to random

I have never had a more disappointing experience than the software engineering class I'm finishing right now.

I don't know whether it was me, but I just couldn't get my teammates to work on the project. If I hadn't slaved for the whole semester, our presentation to NASA (fucking NASA), we would have been completely embarrassed.

trainingmontage, 1 year ago to accessibility

Wow. It didn't take long after learning more about #accessibility for me to see a total lack of alt text everywhere.

trainingmontage, 2 months ago to random

After reading this essay by @baldur, I bought all of his books. It's a loin-girding romp through all of my worst fears as a fresh CS grad aiming for a career in web dev.

Truly an amazing read.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-one-about-the-web-developer-job-market/

trainingmontage, 1 year ago to random

I cannot believe a soggy bag of hateful meat-sweats like Ron DeSantis is younger than I am.

It's messed up.

trainingmontage, 10 months ago to random

If you haven't seen #TheyClonedTyrone, do yourself a favor and watch it. It's fantastic.

trainingmontage, 10 months ago to random

So, about #Picard season 3. Did they just forget about the stuff they did with the Borg in season 2?

Is that just not a thing?

I'm still really enjoying it but it's a little weird.

trainingmontage, 3 months ago to random

So, my mom moved back to Spain a little over a year ago and I need to go visit.

I'm thinking I should consider going by boat given the state of the airline industry. How the hell do you ensure you're not flying on a Boeing?