jimmychoozyx

KnexJS

Funny, I remember working at a software security company, in the digital marketing department, and realizing "programming is essentially the language of an elevated priesthood".

I agree with the premise of the article. I think at some people at some companies indeed unnecessarily complicate the software they build, in part, to protect themselves: to make their product appear better by preemptively complicating it in the name of some claimed benefit.

I'm late-30s.

About to start working on a personal project involving cement: making planters for small fruit trees.

The reason: to learn more about cement, since my plan is to set up concrete piers for a future cabin. And, to eventually learn masonry for making a concrete + rock house.

I do have a bit of back pain already from a desk IT job. However I am relatively fit and I think with more calisthenics I'll improve my back & ab muscles to reduce my back pain.

-> google drive: keep journals. such as a daily dev journal. or a daily <project> journal, where project = "learning journal" or an actual project you're building (and it might grow into a folder).

-> use chat rooms like IRC to have free Q&A sessions with experienced developers

-> check out www.roadmap.sh for ideas on which areas to grow skills in

-> ebooks at libgen.is

-> motivational speeches & music playlists (e.g. david goggins, motiversity, two steps from hell) -> video series at udemy.com (and other places, such as KodeKloud and ACloudGuru)

When are we going to outlaw (as in actually enforce laws) on intelligence agencies honey-potting politicians as a strategy for foreign policy?

Because any article that talks about Terrorism yet fails to account Jeffrey Epstein style honey-pot operations which implicated people such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc... is really meaningless to me.

Justice does not exist when Laws are selectively enforced, and propagandized with "muh terrorism" or "think of teh children" by the same governments which are complicit in negligence towards massive crimes happening in the underworld of world government leaders.

I like to consider Meditation outside of any religion personally.

Meditation helps to calm the nervous system. Counting to 10 (1 count per inhale + exhale), or simply focusing on each inhale & exhale, or repeating a word or multi-word mantra, is what I do personally.

It's especially nice in a Sauna with some mystical atmospheric music (such as Anugama, one of my favorites for meditation).

I have found that it improves my ability to concentrate (especially useful when studying or working) and to calm myself in stressful situations.

TLDR: Water is wet. Sky is blue. Grass is green.

DIY:

-> excel cell: rest api call

-> send request to your own python web app: run python function. send back the output.

oops, typo--

"anti-toxic/toxic" --> meant to say "anti-social/toxic"

I was invited into an in-person interview in downtown San Francisco for a role on a digital marketing team at Adobe. I was interviewed one by one, by three potential colleagues (all women).

One of them condescendingly asked me if I voted for Trump, simply because I am originally from a non-blue state.

It was very strange, anti-toxic/toxic, and came out of nowhere. It made me consider secretly filming & voice recording interviews, especially in the SF Bay Area where people are a bit more influenced by political trends.

If you have time available, consider taking an entry level inside-sales job for a few weeks or months.

They're typically OK with short term, because anyone can do the job. It just takes being able to tolerate making 100-200 phone calls per day.

A little sales experience is helpful, especially when it comes to how to present a product and how to create a strategy to overcome objections to why a person doesn't want to buy.

It will also help you get used to confidently presenting ideas to strangers--despite & becoming immune to-- the risk of rejection.

TLDR (b/c AI predictions are overhyped): "Fluctuation Exists" in systems (including economic systems, societies, mechanical systems, etc.)

A modern, industrialized, knowledge-centric economy is constantly having to re-skill. (It seems to be largely due to innovation, but I am just guessing.)

e.g. A new technology comes in-- creating a rise demand for skills to use it, and a decline in demand for skills to use what it replaces.

The dichotomy of skills entering into and leaving importance & scarcity is apparent via the following lists of occupations:

Fastest __Declining__ occupations in the USA: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/fastest-declining-occupations...

Fastest __Growing__ occupations in the USA: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm

This is a really good idea. For years I've wanted to know:

- Which AirBNB hosts actually have a good "dedicated workspace". Criteria: at least a 30" deep desk, and a comfortable adjustable height office chair.

- Which AirBNB rental units actually have fast internet. Ideal in a perfect world: Let me ping their router, or somehow get the airbnb host to visit https://speedof.me or a similar site, then upload the results. (i.e. -- once per day or once per week, live wifi speed data from that Airbnb Host's rental unit is uploaded to a site where I can access the speed data publicly)

- (This one is more of a "local cafe" functionality) Which AirBNB rental units have a cafe with strong, reliable wifi within <toggable> distance. i.e. let me toggle a .5 km, 1km, 2.5km, etc radius. Show cafes within that radius as well as their wifi

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Open google chrome > click options (3 dots) in upper right corner > Extensions > Manage Extensions > Click to toggle Developer Mode in upper right corner > upper left corner button "Load Packged" > Load the directory of the un-zipped .zip file

Next, back in the normal browser-- Click the puzzle piece icon where your extensions icons are to the right side of the URL address bar. Click the little thumbtack next to Little Rat extension. Now it's installed and shows in the list of extension icons

US Companies often won't even let US employees work in US States where that company does not already have an office, or is not already set up with some sort of accounting (tax) services.

Also, some US Companies don't allow US Citizens to work remotely abroad due to data restrictions or other concern about sensitive data regulations.

So... you're saying "People don't like spending money."

Oh, you don't say? Gee, what a worthwhile comment.

Back to reality--

Energy is such a critical industry. And given the size of the USA, for example, the maintenance of energy infrastructure is never ending.

So, this argument the idea of "zero" is quite meaningless in the context of reality.

ChrisRR--

I would counter this with:

- What value is it to your company to know that the developers who churn into and out of your company... while they're there, they actually know a section of your codebase quite well?

versus the alternative: the degree to which your devs know where your code lives or what it does is low, since they do not engage with it enough.

Sure, one could say: "AI will navigate our codebase for them".

But I think it becomes a bit of a slippery-slope, regarding the question of: "When/to what degree can really we take the developer out of the picture?"

Imagine being a developer, and no one on your team really knows how your product works.

Is AI building your product at that point then? Is that product actually going to exist & be funcitonal?

The nanny-state of California should focus on reducing the exodus of its state population.

To CA government: focus on enforcing the laws you have on the books.

perhaps things like addressing homelessness, police fatigue, actually prosecuting theft & drug dealing, etc.

To Californians: Stay in the Californian Containment Zone. Live with the mess you voted for.

Please-- don't leave your failed state and enact the failure policies to other states. Some of us actually appreciate the United States and don't want to see it turned into California.

There's no setting what this lady has done to get to where she is.

She operates out of Hollywood-- an industry with among the most compromised morals.

Can't say I'd ever waste my time reading her thoughts.

All industry has a degree of foul play, including government corruption, fraud, bribery & money laundering. It varies by industry and geography.

I worked at a company recently who made claims about products having AI, and then I spoke with a data scientist who confirmed that the products do not have AI capabilities-- even basic statistical modeling or prediction.

I suspect an astonishing proportion of businesses lie to a certain degree, on the sales, marketing, and management side of things.

such a fascinating problem to solve.

i am so glad to see it receiving funding and capable participants

Personally, my goal is to buy an expensive item (property/house).

house <- resource accumulation <- in-demand skills <- study

I learn what is in-demand. And then I acquire those in-demand skills. Then I practice those skills to earn the money I need to attain my goal.

But that's just me-- my goal is to earn money quickly.

This is why I focus on in-demand, popular, low-barrier languages & frameworks: python, javascript, SQL related ones.

https://docusaurus.io/ with its mermaidJS (diagrams as code) plugin.

i am working on turning my portfolio into a docusaurus site

i like it because it offers:

markdown docs w/ markdown diagrams, markdown blog, pages (as JSX)

- I'll use the docs aspect for two sections:

1. a set of portfolio projects

2. a set of boilerplate projects as a demo of my favorite devops & dev stack along with a brief description & tutorial for setting up the boilerplate.

- the pages aspect as the main page of my portfolio website, and maybe 1-2 other pages (perhaps one on career progression and one on the value proposition of my services)

- and then I'll have a markdown blog easily available as well, which I plan to use once a month or so to discuss what I've learned that month.

seems like a good & organized setup to me.

Nah twas not I.

While working with TS in VS Code, I liked the intellisense of TypeScript + VSCode... it was able to piece itself together better than vanilla JS-- it predicted which objects, functions, or files I would reference quite well. So, I'll give it that.

I totally see a reason for it in the corporate realm of developer churn and in the vein of keeping projects very structured and stable. I might give it another go eventually.

For my own projects where I try to keep mental overhead low, and reduce focus on anything over than the main business logic, I prefer plain JS (e.g. within an ExpressJS or ReactJS project)

In the reality of the world for virtually all animals, if you don't/can't find food & prepare it to eat

(also known as "work"),

you don't eat.

I've lived in a tent long term while studying a skillset, and now, a few years after breaking into good paying work, I almost have enough money to purchase a tolerable enough piece of property and build a cabin on it.

Having lived on communes, including one where even felons were allowed, know now that I would perhaps offer free or low cost tiny houses to people, but only if I knew they were working towards something positive.

... I'd like to know how many out of the 28 are expending effort towards earn a house or rental in some way, such as working, studying, or building skills. pro-social stuff.

And how many are doing the opposite: drugs, crime, etc. anti-social stuff.

Because although houses exist, they require effort to keep: taxes, maintenance, etc.

If a person isn't willing to expend effort, how can it be justified to give them a regular ol' house?

Perhaps a tiny house as part of a government or NGO-funded social safety net program.

Eh, I just didn't need it.

I learned it but never saw the need for the extra overhead.

It's full of these situations. And I'd rather just see less code due to "Attention Economy" issues-- the more things to focus on, the less focus each thing receives. It's easier on the big picture, if there's less things going on. TS has a ton of terms and concepts that I just don't need to make my business logic work.

const cat Cat cat<T Cat> = cat

vs.

const cat = cat

dto? iterface? i can define those without typescript. Just plain objects with comments about what they do and what they are.

Anyway, yep it's just my personal opinion of course.

My opinion is basically... I think in some cases there's a desire to make things overly complex, sometimes even as a way to gate keep--

I'm not saying that's what is happening here.

But sometimes I feel that way about Typescript leaking into all of the Javascript ecosystem.

"yet our frontend code is reactjs without typescript"

I don't blame them. I hate Typescript. Worked on projects at a major gaming company, no typescript necessary.

For NodeJS enthusiasts, Check out Docusaurus (by Meta).

For Markdown Docs, Markdown Blogs, and JSX-static pages

- https://docusaurus.io

- https://docusaurus.io/docs/next/api/themes/@docusaurus/theme...

For me, the article only shows 1 data visualization which is expressly about the Rural vs. Urban divide. I don't think the article did the topic much justice. I wish it had more data analysis, rather than how it quotes specific numbers, in several cases, without really using them to relate to the thesis of the article.

For example:

"In 2021, according to the cdc, 107,000 people died of drug overdoses, the vast majority linked to heroin or fentanyl. No other rich country comes close to this rate of drug deaths (though Scotland is not that far off). And in 2021 around 43,000 Americans died in car crashes, which was the highest figure since 2005 (the number fell a bit last year); in Germany the rate was a quarter of America’s. Around 26,000 were murdered, against just 300 in Italy."

This is very very general information. Yet the thesis (I think?) suggests that health outcomes are different based on Urban vs Rural living. Why not relate not general opiate consumption data, but rather compare urban & rural opiate consumption, and relate to to another correlating factor such as education or economy. The article does to a degree, but I feel like it's lacking in analysis.