@nat I’d definitely take a look at it and provide feedback! Can’t promise I’d be any good at actually using it, given that I’m already pretty rubbish at the decks I currently have!

@nat In theory, my current notetaking software (logseq) supports flashcards as well, but I’m not at that level of usage on it yet.

An (amazingly simple) aperiodic monotile has been discovered by David Smith, Joseph Myers (@jsm28), Craig Kaplan (@csk), and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. It's literally four copies of a third of a hexagon glued together. Details at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/

@nat I use it mainly for world country/capitol memorization, and I’ve been meaning to get back to my major system mnemonic technique deck eventually.

I’ve thought about using it for more work-related things (particularly vim fold/mark/register commands), but in practice, I find that actual usage is actually a pretty decent proxy for spaced repetition. (For me, at least!)

@nat Yes, Anki, but only for silly things. Haven’t really found a satisfying way to use it for more useful memorization.

Hey #screenshotsaturday 👋
Made this prototype today, I call it Conway's game of breakout 😜

"Supply chain" has connotations of using metal chains to strongly anchor down things so you don't lose them. If a company has a supply chain, they feel in control of things in the chain.

"Dependency tree" implies vulnerability. A company that depends on something is at the mercy of that thing, and has little control over it.

This is a gross simplification, of course, but maybe there's a grain of truth here on why companies are so interested in supply chains instead of dependency trees.

if you're curious, heres me trying to explain why i hate browser-based-apps and yet i think browser-based-apps are the best frameworks around https://cohost.org/tef/post/1205371-i-have-two-conflicti

Even curl makes mistakes in CI. Who tests the tests?

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/bagder/statuses/110061767423641026

@nat Though the testing discipline at MSFT was pretty advanced for the time - it was framed from my get-go as being about providing confidence levels and data/information more than “ensuring quality”, which is often how it’s described.

@nat Yah, I entered the workforce as an SDET at Microsoft right as they were transitioning out from having STEs, and left just before they transitioned away from SDETs as well.

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@robdaemon Yeah, I recently switched over to Alacritty myself!

@robdaemon Ohhh, I was definitely thinking Rust and not JVM.

@robdaemon I dunno, I think clone really isn’t that big a deal in many app-level domains…

@nat I don’t know if I’d really lay that at “Agile”‘s feet - way back in the day, Microsoft had STE and SDET roles and orgs that were separate but non-adversarial from SDEs, and I’ve also worked with QA orgs that weren’t adversarial either!

Okay, this is actually a pretty dang good use case for AI in UX: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2023/03/18/the_command_line_is_the_guis_future/

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@xor People do not understand what ML is, and the reason they don't understand is because the people selling it keep calling it AI.