@gannet@DialMforMara@doodler the promised followup: still in the midst of a promising job hunt.
I’ll push my next reminder out another month. Maybe I’ll have a job and a paycheck!
hackers.town: 2019-05-21 Tue 12:31
US-Cert email announcing “Security Tip (ST19-001) Best Practices for Securing Election Systems” and maybe I’m just cranky but I can’t help thinking of horses and barn doors.
Eye doctor suggested I wear reading glasses with my contacts for close work.
So far so good. May try later with unbroken reading glasses.
a temple of the glasses worn is broken
hackers.town: 2019-05-18 Sat 09:49
Finished the 3.7 official Python tutorial. Hadn’t done that since 2 point something.
A great overview of the language, but I feel bad for any time I suggested it to beginning programmers. They’re not the best audience for that tutorial.
LRT: Regular expressions are so much easier to work with if your language supports verbose mode (/x in Perl, re.VERBOSE in Python, xregexp via npm in JavaScript)
@Sparky last night it took me twenty minutes to remember the word “ukulele.” Finally had to search online for “instrument that looks like a tiny guitar.”
hackers.town: 2019-05-14 Tue 08:26
Skimming the 2.2 edition of “The Imposter’s Handbook” to get an idea of changes since 1.3, and thinking a Changelog section would be nice.
