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System software specialist. Sci-fi, retrocomputing, music, cats. He/him.
Dominic HoptonTired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.
PointOfNo
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:
elilla&, serial tooterWhenever I discuss how much Duolingo sucks and doesn't work and is in fact counterproductive, and all that was already the case *before* it got rebuilt from slop, people ask the very reasonable question: "If not Duolingo, then what"?
My answer is that literally any other method is better than Duolingo lol
But I've collected some of my more detailed answers about two methods I strongly recommend—comprehensive input and tandem exchange—in these two blog posts:
* https://wordsmith.social/overthinking-the-apocalypse/language-learning-methods-that-actually-work-1-the-binge
* https://wordsmith.social/overthinking-the-apocalypse/language-learning-methods-that-actually-work-2-you-show-me-yours-and-ill
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