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timClicks

@timClicks@mastodon.nz

Data/software person with an interest in computer art and creation culture.

I like to teach software development via tutorials and videos online. I'm also the Author of Rust in Action and an unbearable Rustacean. I'm on the planet to build a better planet.

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cwayne, to random
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I have been on vacation one day and so far have gotten yelled at 3 times for checking slack. My team is great.

timClicks,
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@cwayne Turn the phone off Chris!!

timClicks, to random
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"New studio" is YouTuber slang for getting sent to the garage for recordings.

timClicks, to random
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nix is melting ❄️😰

afaict the community has been invaded by trolls and now the maintainers are quitting.

let's talk hypotheticals. let's say that you had a few million dollars to invest in creating a package manager that could "fix Nix".

what would that look like?

timClicks,
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@zeborah But what would they build?

timClicks,
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@ashguy Well, I know that I know people with a few million dollars who are always looking for the right thing to spend their money on.

timClicks, to random
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nix is melting ❄️😰

afaict the community has been invaded by trolls and now the maintainers are quitting.

let's talk hypotheticals. let's say that you had a few million dollars to invest in creating a package manager that could "fix Nix".

what would that look like?

timClicks, to random
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An short comparison between Python and Rust for text processing tasks. (An efficient algorithm is left as an exercise for the reader. 😅 ) https://youtu.be/3-odyhxzWkE

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@TomSwirly That only swaps characters in the ASCII range, but I like it.

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Don't think that this one will do as well as the last one. Hopefully still useful to someone! https://youtu.be/3-odyhxzWkE

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This 2min video is going micro viral. My experiment to see if it's possible for a video without YouTuber nonsense fluff is proving successful. https://youtu.be/W61mh-X0fOg

NeoNacho, to random

guy who doesn't do anything is surprised that other people's jobs actually involve doing things

timClicks,
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@NeoNacho Actions meeting consequences, CEO edition

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I am so good at creating YT shorts that the full length version of my recent video is doing better than the short version.

timClicks, to random
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Convert word lists to regular expressions with the grex command https://crates.io/crates/grex. 1 min vid tutorial: https://youtube.com/shorts/_3aj2tRpQz4?feature=share

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i use rust, btw

theory, to random
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So I guess there's no way to include preformatted text in Tumblr posts, eh? Pretty wild.

https://help.tumblr.com/using-formatting-text/

timClicks,
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@theory You can use the markdown editor

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@theory Sounds like it's finally time to migrate off Tumblr

danielfeldroy, to random
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python-dotev != pytest-dotenv 🤦

timClicks,
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@danielfeldroy eek

timClicks, to random
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@sovtechfund A small request, please use an international date format (DD/MM/YYYY) rather than the American one (MM/DD/YYYY) in your English blog :)

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@voltagex @sovtechfund uh oh, what have I done 😅

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@mb21 @nithssh MMM is the short form of the month's name in the user's specified language

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@sovtechfund vielen Dank!

timClicks, to rust
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is this joke too niche? (I'm trying to find an easy example to teach match guards)

timClicks,
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@d6y You can, but it's slightly awkward because retrieving an environment variable returns a String but string literals are represented differently in the program and accordingly have a different type

timClicks, to rust
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petition to add std::os::all_args() to the Rust standard library. all_args() returns Vec<String> avoiding the need to tell beginners about iterators, collect and Vec<_>.

please sign by adding a star this post.

timClicks,
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@oli That's a good idea. @mo8it

timClicks,
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@caleb That's a nice idea.

timClicks,
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@d2718 @mikkelens I agree that they're essential, but I want to meet learners where they are. This means teaching one thing at a time as far as possible. And in the context of the example that I was working with at the time, I was teaching something else.

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