Activity Log
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 08:59
taking notes on a video about core algorithms
start looking up pseudocode notations
start thinking about “executable pseudocode”
(ten minutes later)
starting to build Dan::Polars for DataFrame manipulation in Raku
stray click and the video starts playing again
oh yeah
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 11:16
Not just a coding test but a timed coding test.
Just finding all the ways to spike the anxiety aren’t they
The timer on the timed code test starts the second I click “accept” so I’ve spent the entire morning making sure all my core tasks for the day are done and now better heat up lunch and put on some lo-fi.
Instead of — you know — reading the tasks, then doing all the above while thinking through a delicious crunchy code problem that I could solve more effectively without a stopwatch.
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 12:01
eating lunch and looking at the test company’s affiliated learning course
They: Select technologies you are interested in
Me: yes
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 12:11
I had a couple pre-Google FitBits (Surge, then a Charge) and although I wear an Apple Watch now there are aspects of the old FitBits I still miss:
- battery life
- data reporting I could understand
less deeply hooked to my phone (I have to tune notifications & just take my Apple Watch off when Messenger chatting because desktop -> cloud -> phone -> watch notifications)
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 15:04
I mean —
(post-test survey at Codility)
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 15:06
Incidentally I opted for Perl. Felt good. Scored 94%. More affronted by that than the 33% I scored in the practice test.
hackers.town: 2025-04-02 Wed 22:15
Allowed a couple strangers in, and they’re from some kind of sourpatch kids faction.
Beat one of my colonists nearly to death (apparently the colonist made fun of his open-mindedness?) then nursed him back to health. Burned down half the base (but only half because we’d replaced half the wood with stone on arrival of two pyromaniacs), then nursed all the firefighters back to health.
Nobody knows how to clean though.
