Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2023-03-03

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hackers.town: 2023-03-03 Fri 00:33

Tonight’s bedtime #drawing was because I saw a 90s zine-style comic the other day and was overcome by aesthetic nostalgia

Extremely grungy drawing of something that looks like an old stereo speaker

hackers.town: 2023-03-03 Fri 08:18

@pdcawley I hovered over “not interested” but thought I’d give it a chance. I tapped out about 30 seconds after this screenshot. First off his list summarizes common practices for code clarity about as well as a 2004 Python fan would summarize Perl, then he moved onto a C++ shapes / area contrived schoolbook example.

Performance complaints are about code in the real world. Give me real world code, like an overworked layer cake of abstractions for TCP.

hackers.town: 2023-03-03 Fri 09:04

@CoralineAda holy crap. That matches up.

hackers.town: 2023-03-03 Fri 09:51

A thing that is interfering with my job search process: tech is fucking depressing. Not the tools and the toys. I still enjoy those. It’s the trends. Plastic enthusiasm from third party recruiters assuming I want to contribute to some doomed NFT AI surveillance tech monstrosity.

hackers.town: 2023-03-03 Fri 15:33

@lmorchard hate it when my clarinet lies