GlyphRE: https://mastodon.social/@digitalcortex/116716498577275958
Still kinda hard for me to believe that this isn’t just what “being an adult” is like for everyone
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David Beazley
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Educator and musician living in Evanston, Illinois. I wrote some Python books, but you'll probably find me yapping on about bikes, trombones, dogs, and other random stuff here. Currently pursuing a MAT in Secondary Education with the hope of becoming a high school math teacher.
JagoI got the boot this month and am looking for a new software developer job. Rust and Python would be fun, but I can do a lot of stuff in JS/TS, Kotlin, Java, even C/C++ with a bit of a brush up... Bit of a jack of all trades full stack dev.
Working with open source would be awesome if it paid just enough to survive the mortgage and get something to eat. Climate positive job or EU digital independence development is interesting too.
Hybrid work within reasonable distance from Klaukkala is a-OK. Remote probably whole of EU <3. Can't travel.
Having put this https://jago.kapsi.fi/cv.pdf up on the public interwebs, I'm probably unfit to work in any US company...
Not a techbro. Sane person and a long-time ally.
Of course, having been a professor I have a certain empathy to their situation--it must suck to be sitting there grading essays that all sound the same and which boringly regurgitate the contents of the book. Fuck that, I'm going to spin a yarn.
One advantage I've realized as an older student is having a ton of life-experience. So, when asked to write an essay on <literally any topic>, I can just start telling some tangential story about that one time I was out <doing something seemingly unrelated> and then somehow tie it to whatever is actually supposed to be discussed.
Later, when I get the grade back, the professor just writes "I wish I could have a coffee with you!" Ha!
Suck it boring-ass LLMs...
Okay, may have dodged a bullet in that my Mac can't actually run MacOS 26. Seems to still work.
I should move the Unix Network Programming book upstairs to the living room and put it next to Our Bodies, Ourselves.
It's a good book for gatekeeping and deterrence. "If I ask this person a question, they're going to grab that book, flip to the middle of it by memory, and start derisively talking about my ignorance of TCP_NODELAY or something. Best move along."
Hot take: 99% of the coders with books like Steven's Unix Network Programming on their shelves had them there for the same reason why doctors and lawyers have framed copies of their college diplomas hanging on the wall.
Wayne's World 2: "That's a Unix book."
Some books are hard because they're so hard core. For example, there's no practical reason for me to keep the Steven's Unix Network Programming Book, nor can I see myself coding up a hobby project where I'm writing socket code in C for fun, yet I can't bring myself to toss it. Maybe it's because of that scene in Wayne's World or something.