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2019-10-10

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hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 01:05

A little more fun with this #drawing. Interesting to me how the sketchbook feel from the matte cover makes a sketchy style more comfortable.

Finished color drawing

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 01:06

@Agrippa that’s true, they do make good stickers.

Twitter: 2019-10-10 Thu 09:25

Or I can start showing it off because it’s a clear sign I can afford to eat and that I have a comfortable friendly relationship with good food.

You know, either way.

https://twitter.com/T_Boateng98/status/1182014023904239616

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 09:31

Random conversation in work chat has me wondering if Rage should be added as the fourth Programmer’s Virtue (after Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, for the un-Perlish among you)

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 09:55

@genehack I can see a couple angles:

  1. raging at the people who are trying to fix things (Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Status Quo)

  2. indiscriminate rage that can’t differentiate between what works & what’s broken, so tries to tear it all down (the rage of the eternal new dev)

  3. the sort that sees the difficulties between users & machines, and decides the users are what they should rage at (Only a commie mutant traitor wouldn’t trust The Computer)

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 10:06

Mind you, I’m thinking more a Terry Pratchett sort of rage than the kind that usually gets headlines.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

Though TBH the other kind is seen often enough in devs, just like False (Impatience|Hubris|Laziness)

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 16:38

“The Office” 2005-2013

Dogs in coats

Dog in raincoat looks askance at camera

Dog in raincoat looks straight at camera

Twitter: 2019-10-10 Thu 22:19

“The Pragmatic Programmer” was my answer to the “favorite programming book” interview question for quite a while.

Looking forward to getting the 2nd Edition codex.

https://twitter.com/saronyitbarek/status/1182365082736566273

Twitter: 2019-10-10 Thu 23:10

And to be even more clear about the implied point: let’s keep the neo-Malthusian “make sure the least worthy die first” out of our survival math.

https://twitter.com/TomWojcik/status/1182461086827765765

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 23:20

Not gonna lie I was pretty proud of myself with that one. #nobirb

tweet: “What’s your favourite/most effective placebo for combating low energy levels?” My answer: “Pure Morning” (a song by the band Placebo)

hackers.town: 2019-10-10 Thu 23:33

Oh lord GoodNotes makes it easy for me to write tiny, which is wonderful and awful.