A coding methodology for personal projects and proof of concepts.
There is a time and place for following “best practices” as a developer. It is not “always”.
Best practices should be followed when…
I’ve been mostly avoiding GraphQL and watching from the sidelines. I’d been forming an opinion but wanted to actually understand it a bit better before really deciding.
A friend asked what was notable about Pathfinder 2nd Edition in comparison to D&D 5th Edition.
It’s important for all knowledge workers to have a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKM). That doesn’t mean you need a fancy tool, or a complex process. Sometimes, the “stupid simple” solution is the best one.
To that end, I wanted to talk through my wife’s system. It’s an important example because her choice to specifically not use any of the fancy purpose built tools has resulted in a better solution for her needs.
“Personal Knowledge Management” (PKM) feels like a lot of “bullshit” to many people. In this, I will speak to the idea that PKM isn’t bullshit. It’s just that other people’s ways of managing knowledge, just aren’t designed for your brain. They may sound like bullshit, but if it’s working for it’s creator, it’s totally valid.
A group calling itself “Mask Group” has purchased three of the largest mastodon instances.
Mastodon users, especially people on those servers, should be very concerned.
There are some things you need to consider about mastodon to understand why this is very concerning.
This means that by buying a large mastodon instance you are signing up for a very large ongoing cost in a system whose current state is adverse to profit generation for the owners. If we assume the purchasers are not complete idiots there are 2 solutions to this problem.
“Hey!” started as an Interruption Tracker, and now supports Time Tracking too. It has been through 3 iterations: Chicken Scheme, Crystal, and now Raku. This post is a high-level developer’s diary of what I wrote, why I rewrote it, and what I learned along the way.
There's plenty of documentation about how to send an SMS via Twilio, but very little about how to receive one. Receiving one in a MongoDB Atlas Function involves an extra complication. By the end of this post you'll know how to receive a text in Twilio, and have it successfully interact with your MongoDB Atlas Function. I'll also cover a couple nice-to-have's in Twilio that you'll probably want to set up anyway.
I used Midjourney to generate art that I threw on t-shirts, coasters, and almost everything else RedBubble offers. Then I used OpenAI to generate copy for it, and combined that with a handful of custom scripts to generate a product site called Bed Bath & The Beyond.
Musk has given the remaining employees an ultimatum: come back to the office, sign up for 'hardcore' work, or take 3 months severance and get out.
Acknowledging that there are some people who can't really say "no" because of visa issues, or other complicated home situations….
Aside from them, who would say "Yes! Sign me up for 'hardcore' working hours…
