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emma

@emma@ruby.social

CEO of https://consonance.app, MD of https://snowbooks.com and https://makeourbook.com. Ruby, and Rails. React when I absolutely have to. Also https://justsimply.dev, https://dayofcode.co.uk, etc. Did the _why book for Brighton Ruby.

Cure fan. Home educator. 4 day wkr. Atheist she/her b.330ppm @has_many_books on twitter (now deleted) if you wonder if it's me. Founder-ing is not the hard part. Maker of daft things and music on my Roland Fantom-8.

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denis, to random
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Surely the US would not elect a convicted felon, right?

emma,
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@denis I think it makes it more likely. People are bloody-minded.

eclectech, to random
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It's time to get organised for the Friday Sparkly Dance Party!

Here's what you need to do if you'd like to join in:

  1. Pick a dance (all 50 so far are below)
  2. Film yourself doing the dance step a few times
  3. Upload the clip to Mastodon, tagging me in and noting the dance number
  4. Have a laugh with it, it's just for a bit of silly fun 🕺 💃

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#FridaySparklyDanceParty

A vertical grid of 15 blocks of different colours, each numbered (1-15). Each box contains a simple animated black and white figure doing something resembling a dance move.
A vertical grid of 15 blocks of different colours, each numbered (16-30). Each box contains a simple animated black and white figure doing something resembling a dance move.
A vertical grid of 15 blocks of different colours, each numbered (31-45). Each box contains a simple animated black and white figure doing something resembling a dance move.
A square grid with 7 blocks of different colours numbered 46-52. Boxes 46 to 50 contain a simple animated black and white figure doing something resembling a dance move. 51 and 52 haven't been made yet, so are just question marks.

emma,
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@eclectech it's all fun and games until some tech bro nicks the idea for a captcha.

[star jump, star jump] but i AM human, i AM [jazz hands, jazz hands, desperate small leap]

emma, to random
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Knee-deep as I am in this year's exam season, I am so over the adult-centric nature of children's education.

e.g. the forced delineation of knowledge into subjects, to fit the career path and interests of "a geography teacher", "a physics teacher".

see also: schedules that fit with an adult not a teenage brain; lack of real application of overwhelmingly theoretical teaching; subjects designed only to help the minority who study further; assessment oriented to career, not child, progression.

emma,
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@rgarner Over the summer I am going to go out of my way to find interesting ways to apply all the maths we slogged through. How tall is that mountain! What is the slope from here to the top of that wind turbine! What shall we tune this guitar to to cancel out the terrible noise of the cats complaining! How thick shall we make this nasturtium planter to accommodate your mother's over-watering habit!

emma, to random
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you didn't just say forms were easy, did you...?

baldur, to random
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How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck with it until insolvency or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first?

Be careful about making technical decisions based on bubble logic

emma,
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@baldur just simply use a framework with an ORM /s

emma, to random
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how my support ticket with Amazon is going.

emma,
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Can you imagine how professionally embarrassing it is to run a bibliographic data company and yet not be able to get Amazon to activate a vendor code. I mean the two things are not related but it still doesn't look good.

baldur, to random
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So, the lesson of the day is that trying to make a point in a non-confrontational way because you don’t want to alienate people whose writing you like does nothing except invite a bunch of people to attempt to argue with you about something they imagine you wrote

emma,
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@baldur I'm tired just reading that

yatil, to random
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NASA programmers: ”We distributed the program from the broken chip into different parts of Voyager and changed all the references to ensure that it all keeps working. We had one attempt at this.”

Web developers: “How am I supposed to remember to label my buttons and style focus states?? It’s just too hard!”

(Sorry, could not resist. 😂 I recognize the systematic problems around the education of web developers that are often trained to be one-trick ponies where the trick is a framework.)

emma,
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@yatil I think it's a very different kettle of fish, with different constraints and different processes. I'm not sure "web development" and "space development" are apples and apples.

emma, to random
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GCSE-ish exams are about compliance.

They are not about:

  • cleverness
  • intelligence
  • problem solving

Just so's we're clear, they test whether you'll do as you're told.

emma, to random
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What the current genocide situation teaches is this: if it happens to you, know that no one is coming to save you.

trainingmontage, to random
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After reading this essay by @baldur, I bought all of his books. It's a loin-girding romp through all of my worst fears as a fresh CS grad aiming for a career in web dev.

Truly an amazing read.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-one-about-the-web-developer-job-market/

emma,
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@trainingmontage @baldur "Fuck it, I’m doing a PhD" << good rule for life

emma, to random
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lol

emma, to random
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Maths mocks today. Two papers, back to back, starting 6pm.

Hold us in your thoughts! ➕➖🟰📐➗📏✖️

emma, to random
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Raspberry didn't come home last night so I got up early to look for him and found him after an hour, so that's an exciting story with a nice resolution for you this morning. He's now on his third breakfast.

emma,
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emma, to random
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paused on the relentless quadratic functions by peeling ivy off a wall

emma, to random
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Crocuses speeded up

timelapse of crocuses opening in the sun, although the video doesn't play for me. hopefully it does for you!

emma,
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oh, that is a timelapse thing on my phone. Imagine you can see them slightly opening, anyway.

emma, to random
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Spent all mother's day factorising trinomials and completing quadratic squares. At least my son and I could climp together for support.

This is my third year straight of doing GCSEs / equivalent. Reader, I hate them. They are an active barrier to learning.

emma, to random
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RHS and their 801 close friends

emma, to random
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My pro tip for getting more programming done and not losing your mind:

make 5 the max number of files you are allowed open in VSCode

baldur, to random
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“Why my code isn't in TypeScript”

https://remysharp.com/2024/02/23/why-my-code-isnt-in-typescript

> I even pay for CoPilot, almost exclusively, to explain TypeScript errors to me

I genuinely appreciate this use case for an LLM, I really do, but what does it say about TypeScript that the only comprehensible error explanations are from prose summaries statistically derived from modelling millions of lines of similar code?

Nothing good. I can tell you that.

emma,
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@baldur on the ground, it's a fucking nightmare and turns "could be a moderately enjoyable way to earn a living" into Work with a capital W.

baldur, (edited ) to random
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I’d use the phrase “he’s the sort of person who enthusiastically tries to get his posts to the top of Hacker News” as a scathing insult more often if it weren’t for the fact that those types would see it as a compliment

emma,
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@baldur any time I've accidentally trended on hacker news, I have felt a sickening thump in my gut of the impending onslaught. why anyone would solicit that is beyond me.

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