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hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 08:54
post-work-event update:
I think I have a people hangover.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 09:02
@maddiefuzz also the best, thus the hangover.
(okay no really it’s the social battery thing plus aggravated tinnitus)
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 12:25
symptoms have persisted, so I checked. It’s (probably) not COVID so yay for that!
Leaves plenty of room for the other ten thousand bugs carried by a crowd of hundreds (plus four airports)
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 14:41
Feeling better. Seems like my sinuses mostly needed to drain the last of Austin out of the system.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 15:15
Been learning how other #ADHD folks also learn by building connections to existing knowledge, so maybe the most ADHD practice I ever had (aside from the rest of my life): the thesaurus.
When I asked Mom how to spell a word or what it meant, she’d tell me to look it up. I’d eventually find it in the dictionary, but definitions never stuck in my head.
So I started using the thesaurus. It would tell me words this was both like and unlike. I’d see a synonym or antonym I knew, and done. Usage and context where I encountered the word told me the rest.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 17:27
Once again looking at Python code so bad that I understand why people like Go so much.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 17:48
pytest going “EEEEEEEEEEEEEE” but at least I can read that and know what it means.
It means the code is so bad.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 17:54
@klardotsh I am fussy as heck about my Python versions, to the point where I don’t think it started being usable as a primary task language until 3.7, maybe even 3.9.
You can imagine how a mindset like that fares looking at code in the real world.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 21:51
@genehack How to Think Like a Programmer: Mappers vs Packers?
Not specifically, but I’m pretty sure I’ve come across the concept before in my learnings. With some frustration, because the best way I can describe my brain is packing maps. Or mapping packs?
I’m a doodler! I start sketching right away, but always switching scales and correcting or redrawing a bit that doesn’t work in the whole picture, even if it looked really good up close.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 22:02
@genehack I’ll take a closer look at your link in the morning.
My challenge with mapping vs packing, at least for my brain, is that yeah I definitely map, but it’s a careful exploratory thing. It’s more like the blind men and the elephant, and I’m all of the blind men.
Based on past experience this bit over here has got to be a tree trunk, except that bit over there is kind of a snake. A ha! Clearly we are constructing a wooden snake golem! Rinse and repeat.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 22:02
@genehack It can be frustrating. But it can also be fun.
hackers.town: 2024-10-02 Wed 22:21
More info hoarding. I’ve been collecting the various reading and viewing resources on a topic in one spot. Visually, so I can reinforce some mental connections. In Heptabase, because it’s better with visual arrangement of long notes and PDFs than something like Kinopio.
