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A while back, I got tired of dealing with the mess of Gatsby, Next.js, and Vuepress, so I made my own static site generator in Python. I don't want a GraphQL database for my static…

I believe in this case they also killed the indie studio's contract.

Conda does their own thing, so I hope that this doesn't become commonplace. It's a nightmare of interop. Yes, it works for one person on a single laptop, but my experiences with co…

I've used Discord for years, and admin a small community server. With the new video chat features, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a B2B offering soon. I certainly hope that they…

How does Snowpack compare to Rollup? I use Rollup because it's light-weight and dependency-free.

Agreed. There's tabletop outside of D&D and Adventure fantasy. Don't get me wrong: the genre is popular for a reason. Still, it's nice to give other worlds a try. One of my friends…

Structured concurrency is why you should use Trio. What do you get? For starters, Ctrl-C/KeyboardInterrupt just works. By restricting the design space, you end up with much more in…

I will note that internships are still going on. Everybody also gets their housing stipend in cash.

Feedback on the tables: the vertical table headers are hard to read. Consider tilting them at an angle, or just switching to horizontal.

I'm guessing Data. Trends, among others.

I believe Age doesn't have the dependency on messagepack. I do like Saltpack's ASCII armour format better, though.

Hot take: slack-style threads are bad for long-form discussion. They encourage forking, when what you really want is everyone to be on the same page. Traditional forum-style thread…

One of my classes (mandatory writing GenEd) had an online version, so we get the videos from last quarter, and Zoom discussion sections. So no, we're getting lectures over Zoom at …

What is wrong with DISTINCT?

Actual college student. UCSD has a food bank on campus. Here's the math as to why: Recommended daily dining dollar spend: $19 Breakfast: $3.95, "Bobcat Sandwich" Lunch: $5.25, Hamb…

My main annoyance with Tailscale is the reliance on Google. I need to refresh my memory, but I think this makes a VLAN shared with other people impossible. This is why I'm still us…

"Gamer" community bias, IME, as well as other internet-age communities. It's not the most general platform, but it's one of the best at what it does: voice and text. Video is just …

Honestly, after trying MyPy for a bit, I'm probably going to gradually type. There's some metaprogramming constructs (notably certain class decorators) that are not expressible in …

I personally use fswatch for this. The invocation is probably something like this: fswatch -0 ***.md | xargs -0 make I invoke a variant of this from my Makefile with a phony watch …

I use something very similar for mathematical homework and notes: MacVim, with a Makefile that runs Pandoc with the Eisvogel template. I also have a script that runs fswatch to run…

I had the opportunity to watch him lecture for a week, almost a decade ago. I don't remember what it was about (maybe Catalan numbers?), but ten years later, I wish I'd been able t…

Not parent poster, but Thomas Powell is the Data Viz instructor at UCSD.

Can you elaborate on what this means?

I don't really get the hate for tweets. > Probably won't be able to read the tweet in the future when it gets deleted, no real context or other information in the tweet. I find the…

I personally credit my own geometry education, as much as I disliked it, with giving me the tools I needed to succeed in Calculus. That Calculus final involved proving part two of …