Mastodawn

How it started vs How it’s going

10 years on Strava. I took up running 9 months earlier and decided to follow people from the local running club on Strava just to find some new routes as I was bored of the same old paths 🙂.

Chris Oldwood 1d ago

Isn't every Friday good just by virtue of it being the last day before the weekend?

Chris Oldwood 1d ago

I always thought it somewhat depressing that the fruits of my labour end up in a folder called "bin".

Chris Oldwood 1d ago

Emily Nakashima 2d ago

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.

Chris Oldwood 2d ago

If the Artemis II reentry rocket team held a process review meeting wearing clothes from the last visit to the moon in 1972, would that be a retro retro retro?

Chris Oldwood 3d ago

Chris Oldwood Nov 2, 2016

I've sworn to uphold the Hypocritic Oath: I write code that does one thing and comments that say something completely different.

Chris Oldwood 4d ago

Kevlin Henney 4d ago

As a perennial and unrepentant em dash user — if em dashes make you think AI output, let me introduce myself: I'm part of the input — I thoroughly enjoyed this defence of the em dash by Jessica Clark: https://www.mamamia.com.au/how-to-use-em-dash/

'You're all wrong about the em dash — my emotional support punctuation.'

"I never meant to care this much."

Mamamia

Chris Oldwood 4d ago

Fran 4d ago

My @OReillyMedia book Introducing C++ is now released https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/introducing-c/9781098178130/
#Cpp #books

Introducing C++

You know how to code, but you're ready to level up. You've heard about the power and performance of C++, a language vital to fields like AI, game development, and high-performance... - Selection from Introducing C++ [Book]

O’Reilly Online Learning

Chris Oldwood 4d ago

I was on a Skype call with someone from the House of Lords and I guess they decided to hang up because I suddenly got an error saying “Connection reset by peer”...

Chris Oldwood 5d ago

Chris Oldwood Mar 11, 2023

I’ve always found the choice of the + operator for string concatenation very confusing, it just doesn’t add up.

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