Thomas Hartmann @hartmann@mastodon.technology

Let's try a little #introduction to start things off:

#hello, I'm Thomas.

Software dev currently particularly enamored with #Rust and #Haskell, trying to dive ever deeper into the functional and theoretical ends of the pool.

I want to start writing and talking about programming, so I'll try and use this as a little outlet to set me on the right path.

Keyboard customizer, Oxford comma proponent, and all-round good guy.

Maybe I'll actually manage to rack up some posts this time around?

Cheers!

Remember, kids: when you're trying to set up dual booting on your computer, be aware that you might end up having to do a factory restore if you mess up 😅

After turning on my computer at work today some of the #python scripts we have refused to work, suddenly throwing syntax errors. A quick `python -v` reveals that it's suddenly running 3.7 instead of 2.7, and I have no idea why that would happen. Anyone else have any experience with Windows suddenly upgrading your python without asking?

All packed and ready to head to Rome for #Rustfest. Never been to Italy before so really looking forward to that, though I'll probably have to skip on a lot of the historical content. Come to think of it, I've never been to a developer conference before, either 🤔

Anyway, if you're going, give me shout! I'll be there on my own, so I'm more than happy to say hi and chat for a bit 😊

It is a special kind of hell you find yourself in when, on the eve of an early morning exam deadline, you have an idea that will significantly improve your solution, but it's going to take a massive rewrite to do it. So you end up sitting up all night making it work, only to find out in the morning that the deadline has been postponed due to technical issues. I was ready to hand it in and let go. Now I'm forced to keep thinking about it for another 24 hours. Oh, well, at least I made it work 🤷

Fun fact:

Due to how arrays are used in place of tuples in #JS, the `zip` and `unzip` functions can be aliases of each other. Also works for matrix transposition.

Let's try a little #introduction to start things off:

#hello, I'm Thomas.

Software dev currently particularly enamored with #Rust and #Haskell, trying to dive ever deeper into the functional and theoretical ends of the pool.

I want to start writing and talking about programming, so I'll try and use this as a little outlet to set me on the right path.

Keyboard customizer, Oxford comma proponent, and all-round good guy.

Maybe I'll actually manage to rack up some posts this time around?

Cheers!