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

Another term of allowing students to ask me questions anonymously during class. >800 Q in 66 Chem101 lectures, and always a different flavour to the ones I get via traditional hand-raising (the ones below aren't at all representative, just some fun examples)

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

@chrisg
I know it best from @aral and his Small Tech Foundation (https://small-tech.org/about/), but it may have originated elsewhere.

It's a movement to make software personal (and more) again.

So often, I'm reminded about the broken state of IT today. Barriers to entry everywhere are ridiculously high.

Self-hosting anything is incredibly stressful, often requiring you to be skilled as a system administrator to the point where you could make a living off of it.

I know why, of course.

Capitalism rewards enclosure. Money flows to companies who want customers on their terms, so solutions are designed to service thousands of people and for professionals to operate.

We need #SmallTech.

@RL_Dane My constant recommendation is Crafting Interpreters (https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Robert Nystrom. Everyone should read this book, and it's available online for free. The second part implements a full language and a VM for it, in C. If you have some passing knowledge of C, it will get you the rest of the way there.

It doesn't cover make/cmake or any other build system, which is necessary for anything non trivial. I just had to learn that through trial and error.

I have a couple of post-bootcamp candidates who interviewed (very) well for our junior role at CoverageBook, but we couldn't hire, does anyone want a warm intro?

Slide into my DMs?

(Boosts helpful!)

Some more tiny truck #paintings. This set is more focused on quiet scenes. I also included a #cat in each which will be a thing going forward. Again in #acrylagouache. I also included my ongoing cyclops archeological mini series within the larger #keitruck series.

Stock Alert (CN): RPi CM4 - 8GB RAM, 32GB MMC, With Wifi is In Stock at Seeedstudio https://rpilocator.com?instock #CM4

When u have no idea what ur doing but u don’t let that stop u

Please don't check any NYT sites/apps or play Wordle tomorrow, Dec 8, from midnight-midnight EST. The newsroom is doing a one-day walkout because they've been without a contract for 2 years, and we're supporting them.

Second Life source code now on Github: https://github.com/secondlife

Just got laid off from BuzzFeed and I’m truly heartbroken. I have so much passion for writing and to get this news right before Christmas is truly devastating. If anyone is looking for a writer—I’m available for hire. 🙁 #tuesday

The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company

https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY

a weird video but the song itself is very good.

#FavoriteMusic 26/

New book day! After a couple of intense year's my partner's book is now out in the wild, UK & US publications.

'Escape From Model Land, how mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it'

With models (financial, environmental, public heath etc) so influential in our lives this entertainingly written book is really important for modellers themselves and decision makers increasingly reliant on models.

#newbook #book #books #science #climate #reading #modelling

I go through lots of graph paper, so to save a little money I made a LaTeX template to print my own. It was so handy that @duetosymmetry and I turned it into a LaTeX package.

There are various grid styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc), and both custom and pre-defined color schemes.

Use it to easily print your own paper, or to make pdf page templates for your favorite tablet note-taking app.

Github: https://github.com/mcnees/LaTeX-Graph-Paper
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers?lang=en

What books would you suggest to a junior or intern backend software engineer?