My experimental cutup poem "Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" is live in Issue 14 of Riggwelter.
https://issuu.com/riggwelter/docs/issue_14/20
The poem combines cutups of my poetry with excerpts from "Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" which you might remember from the "This is not a place of honor" memes last year.
(By volume it has much more of my poetry about wolves and coyotes than nuclear waste, but a little nuclear waste goes a long way)
I'm taking some classes on API documentation on Udemy because I've never done that professionally and it's a sticking point at every interview...and I have to say it doesn't seem that hard? Is it Dunning-Kruger effect and I just absolutely don't know what I don't know? It could be! Or it could be that hiring managers are being excessively cautious.
Anyway, the end goal is to generate some sample API docs to post publicly and hopefully get hired!
I wrote a blog post about what it's like living with wildfire-polluted air when your main coping mechanism is going for a walk.
Bad Air Days
"I haven't felt this cooped up since Chernobyl"
I wrote a blog post about what it's like living with wildfire-polluted air when your main coping mechanism is going for a walk.
Bad Air Days
"I haven't felt this cooped up since Chernobyl"
It has very trying to make JavaScript pretend to be statically-typed smell. Or Java-as-a-first-language feel.
I’m volunteering at Science Hack Day in San Francisco today. They have a person doing live transcription of the presentations and it’s wonderful. I have good hearing, but I don’t always follow spoken words when I’m in a disctracting environment. I never would have thought to ask for it as an accomodation, yet now that I see it in action, it’s soooo useful.
Somehow in all these years of using booleans, I hadn't learned that the boolean data type was named after the person who invented it, George Boole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
Today seems like a good time to mention that I made my account on the technology instance because that's what I want to focus on here, along with writing and maybe occasional fun things. There are other places I talk about other serious topics. I'll talk about politics when and if I have an interesting opinion, especially when it overlaps with technology. But I'll leave stream of consciousness comments on current events for other places.
So, how about that dark mode CSS selector?
I’m at the Write the Docs meetup. Lecture about Hugo and Kubernautes today. I can’t really summarize it as I go (livetoot?) because it’s so much to take in. There will be a video later and I’ll share. #writethedocs
P means pending, not poem. Red P means it's gone beyond the average response time. Is that good? Bad? Probably just means the mostly-volunteer staff of the journal is overwhelmed.
So I found one that has a lot of code samples and might be just what I need
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/05/es6-in-depth-destructuring/
Busybody neighborhood ecologist, poet, philosopher, and theurgist. Current top interests: technical writing, JavaScript, vajrayana