Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@social.cleverlibre.org

@maricela @admitsWrongIfProven Welcome. Kotlin is a super cool language!

I would like to learn JS one day, but for now I am most comfortable with Python.

@neurobongo It helps to have a foil. It seems where I work the engineers loathe our ERP system and the people on the business side hate our IT ticketing system. The two sources of hatred keep the universe balanced I guess. :)

@sigsegv Thank you! it’s really cool to get this far even though I am now at the beginning.

I saw you toot about C++ and it’s something I want to learn eventually. 😀

@mlevison welcome, I came over last week and have really liked it so far, especially our instance! Happy to have you here!

@BalooUriza It’s actually pronounced squirrel.

@aut i have hit the block trifecta in terms of that content a couple times. It is nice to curate your feed and I appreciate that we are on a server with good rules for behaving.

@CanXClV Libre Office Draw is good at making or editing PDFs. I have used it when I get something that doesn’t allow me to input text but I don’t want to print, write on it and then scan it back in.

If I just want to make a nice written document with not a super fancy layout there are extensions for VS Code that can convert markdown to pdf.

@rastinza I use it moderately so far. It’s fun to see the content racing. I also think it’s a good tool for discovering interesting posts and people.

One really early impression I have of working in #softwareEngineering is that it’s just important to be able to use the supporting tools as it is to know how to code.

The only side projects I did where a build system figured in before were when I was learning android and the modifications I made to the Gradle files was very minor.

@abde I like the piano groove. The first half of the track is chill and relaxing but then it amps up with the piano riff in the second half. Nice track!

@tatzelbrumm That article had a lot of different and really good points. My favorite one was calling the tax games the wealthy play what they are - wealth transfer. I think conservatives do a really great job of trying to paint any public benefit program or assistance as wealth transfer, when really the transfer of wealth is actually flowing in the opposite direction.

The only thing I disagree with as someone who is also an American is the belief in American exceptionalism. I think in a way that breeds the tech idol worship is that because people are already thinking America is great just because. Then you can make the jump to believe I am exceptional just because I am an American, which is I think exactly the Reagan thing about it’s all about individualism and getting rich while not helping anyone else out.

@philiphubbard @philiphubbard that’s beautiful! This was a lot more engaging than the pictures in my high school textbook.

I looked up macrophage cells and tried to explain that they eat things that are making you sick(hopefully I’m close). He said “it feels like they are just hanging out in a chair in my body while I cough”

@VivBeanX print(“hello, fellow pythonista”)