Jots
Daylight Savings Time messed me up yesterday. I was not in any kind of mood to write a post.
Job search continues, with me getting excited about one or two opportunities that have been progressing. Can’t make any assumptions though, so I’ll keep chugging along.
Bookmarks
looks like I’ll be updating my microwave and my sleep schedule twice annually for the foreseeable future
A new type-safe language on the Erlang runtime; loads of fun to play with, though its standard library is not 1.0 yet
these snapshot posts are weeknotes, give or take; here’s a long writeup on the concept in a few contexts
SQLite serves my needs well, but I’m curious about when I might use DuckDB; seems to work best in OLAP situations where your data is already prepped and you might reach for Pandas or similar
opens with debunking The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, a popular concept from the “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog” era which posits people are mean online because anonymity lets them avoid accountability; Doctorow then highlights the anonymous corporate bullies that have shaped our modern dystopia
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