Thank you wellington, you’ve been lovely
Apart from going to bed early last night, that never would’ve happened in those days
Kawaiicon was everything I wanted it to be. It reminds me of the old Ruxcon days.
Sick bra
With 15 years in the industry I feel comfortable saying debugging is a skill I’ve honed pretty well. When I sat down and wrote about it the ideas flowed easily. So here’s part I: Your mental model is wrong
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I realised the only time i use linkedin when someone gets laid off from my company. I login and message them and check my messages a few hours later, then log off again
Friendly reminder to teach your kids that minecraft isn’t accurate on the safe consumption of raw meat products
Sales people are way too cheerful for my liking. I want brutal, nihilistic, sales folk with tattoos and black nail polish
TIL GitHub automatically ignores anything in a folder called build/ from its file search and will collapse any files in it from a PR diff
github.blog/changelog/20...
I almost resigned after hanging my queen, but my opponent didn’t take it 🤷♂️
What I am enjoying the most is how Trump has done a massive favour for the left wing governments of Canada and Australia.
Time for a celebratory drink
My yubikey was delivered to the wrong address. Startrack mixed up the labels so they opened it, i was very confused when i received a Liverpool FC jersey
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
The term “strong opinions loosely held” always nagged at me, but i had a revelation yesterday. I have strong opinions about what good looks like and i hold them strongly, I don’t hold my opinions on how to get there strongly. People mean the latter not the former.
Americans: “Everyone has the right to express their opinions wherever they want”
Europeans: “Do you want Nazis? ‘Cause that’s how you get Nazis”
A couple of years ago i went to an offsite. Multiple people commented on how i had so much energy and was really sociable.
I fell into a depression for a week afterwards
I have a bunch of things I want to talk about; using GDB to debug Ruby processes, Address Sanitization to debug memory corruption bugs in C extensions, Jupyter notebooks for data analysis.
I thought I'd start blogging again, here's a post about I don't say "Technical Debt"
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This gets me every time
Time to play the annual game of: how many of the hottest 100 songs have i heard before?
The irony is that that’s not a top down approach 🫠
What does work? Life/ADHD Coaching is an emerging practice that pairs individuals who have real world experience with ASD/ADHD with patients to provide individualised advice.
Unsurprisingly the answer is to do something that doesn’t scale and learn what works.
The challenge is when we apply therapies that are designed, and very effective, for top down thinking to bottom up thinkers it can make it worse and deprive people of supports they might otherwise access.
When you plan something do you start with the objective and break it down into smaller and smaller pieces? Or do orientate towards the small tasks that are most interesting or difficult first?
Both are valid and valuable, in fact doing both is sometimes essential to success.
But bottom up, often called “detail oriented”, thinking is a fundamental trait of the neural development of ASD minds
I dont use the term detail oriented because it implies inability to see the bigger picture when my experience is that the bigger picture is visible just from a different perspective
For example ASD (as well as ADHD) have a tendency to catastrophise situations. The reasons are complex, a mixture of our developmental differences and social conditioning.
The “fix” applied is often to reframe the problem from a top down perspective.
CBT and other therapies focus on the mindset of the autistic person as needing to be fixed, like a broken limb, instead of trying to find prosthetics that aid what is a permanent fixture of the ASD brain.
The reality is that all people with ASD struggle with day to day life and require support. Unfortunately the support available is often in appropriate, for example Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
