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I have lost my contract as a developer and am helping a non-profit [1] streamline their operations. The organization aims to provide food and heath kits to the marginalized. We have already distributed over 600 kits and are on track to reach a 1000 in this week. Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month. I was introduced to them by a friend who was helping them build an open platform [2], open in the…
I'm learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. I just picked back up writing my compiler to WASM for my toy programming language (think JS crossed with ML). Right now I'm getting a feel for writing stack based bytecode and implementing basic features like local variables and control flow. It's not much, but I just got factorial to compile in my language which felt totally awesome.
Nice! FWIW I've been solving some wasm challenges in infosec Capture The Flag events and it's a nice way to learn the bytecode.
I'm learning how to level up my more fundamental life skills: nutrition, exercise, and character. Character I'm learning through the study of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which I'm working through with a friend. For exercise, I'm enjoying learning a safe kettlebell program with the book Simple and Sinister . With nutrition, I'm just trying to cook/prepare all my own meals while keeping the ingredients heal…
It did for me. My path seems to be flipped. I did this stuff in my late teens and early twenties and after that I decided to get into software.
Surprisingly, logistics (and the Mandarin around it) is interesting! Going through some of the "Incoterms" now. It's fun to learn something new and a language at the same time.
I'm learning pentesting for fun. I'm mainly active on hackthebox.eu. I might get my OSCP one day, for fun as well. I do still think the certificate comes in handy despite the fact that I'm applying for web developer positions at the moment. I'm happy I'm learning this though, I'm already noticing that I develop differently, because the little I've learned about pentesting taught me that true cyber criminals are hungr…
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Nice! FWIW I've been solving some wasm challenges in infosec Capture The Flag events and it's a nice way to learn the bytecode.
Cool! So far I've been reading the spec and looking at the output of wat2wasm.
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This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here and there but some sort of refresher course up to doing more advanced would be awesome. Any recommendations?
Hell yes! I love hearing about people interested in abstract algebra and wholly support your endeavor! Here is a pretty decent resource on relevant texts: http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/#Abstract%20Algebra That page in general is pretty gold for math texts in general. Also, #math on freenode has lots of algebra-strong users on it, though depending on your luck some can be less helpful than others. I love chatting abo…
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing
[2] https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-...
Systems Thinking, mainly through reading Russell Ackoff's books. The Art of Problem Solving is good, Turning Learning Right Side Up is eye-opening (and definitely one of my favorite books lately) and currently reading Redesigning Society. Highly recommended.
Also, related, found this in Coursera while looking for courses on Systems Thinking: Big History (https://www.coursera.org/learn/big-history)