Adam @cthulahoops@grurple.org
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My drawings are from working through this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draw-Every-Day-Guided-Sketchbook/dp/1419720147/
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Hello, world.
Trying out mastodon largely as I wanted to somewhere to post my learning to draw drawings, and increasingly annoyed that everyone's content is tied up in user-hostile walled gardens.
I guess given that I have the capability to host my own I should be the change I want to see. Even if it does mean I might just be speaking to myself.
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Here's an interesting perspective: Code Is Not Literature http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
It addresses a puzzle:
> [So many programmers say], “People should read code” but few people seem to actually do it. I’d be surprised if I interviewed a novelist and asked them what the last novel they had read was, and they said, “Oh, I haven’t really read a novel since I was in grad school.” Writers actually read other writers but it doesn’t seem that programmers really do, even though we say we should.
Game of Thrones S0803 Show more
We were interviewed about RustPython: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/rust-python-interpreter-episode-207/
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Where is the most average bus stop in the UK? https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/03/average-bus-stop.html
Returning to #drawing after a long break. Skipping the rest of the gel pens chapter as the prompts weren't inspiring me. Next chapter is "About Town" in pencil and black pen.
First up: a bicycle.
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I was about to start my machine when a man suddenly appeared in the lab.
"I come from the future," he said.
More people appeared as he spoke.
"Are you here to stop me?" I asked.
"No, to witness."
Proud, I turned back to my machine, then heard a whisper:
"This bit is hilarious!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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Just discovered that our rustpython #webassembly build has better performance than our native build!! What a great time to be alive!
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How to destroy London https://www.roads.org.uk/ringways/
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"Hey, dad, guess what your grand-daughter wants to be when she grows up?"
"I'm guessing Experimental Paradoxist."
"Expe- How did you know?"
"I spent my youth trying to not get killed by her adult self."
"Oh. Well, she gets timetravelling from her mother's side."
"Uh-huh."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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computer programming is beautiful and very useless
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As per @selea & @rysiek's suggestion I've started a PeerTube channel for video recordings of interesting FOSDEM 2019 sessions.
You can follow it via @fosdem2019 or https://peertube.social/video-channels/fosdem2019/about
It's kicking off with the ActivityPub panel hosted by @cwebber & Gualter Barbas Baptista.
https://peertube.social/videos/watch/c7e0d798-9311-4bc5-93c5-87f452aa558a
This extension is my new favourite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/
Other social media sites are on a strict time limit. (Mastodon isn't currently because it's not actively trying to hijack my mind.)
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