Updates
Here are copies of the updates that I have posted to my social media account on Mastodon: @[email protected]. I feel like it’s a good idea to have personal backups of social media postings. You can follow on mastodon or with RSS.
🧑💻 Daily Prompt [2024-05-02]: Do you have any rituals to get your mind into the right state to be productive when programming? Are there different rituals for different kinds of tasks?
🧑💻 Daily Prompt [2024-05-01]: What was your worst interview experience?
📝 New Post!
Tracking the Wins
https://sudorandom.dev/posts/tracking-the-wins/
#programming #software-engineering #mental-health #productivity
🧑💻 Daily Prompt [2024-04-30]: Have you worked on a project that went sideways? What are some lessons that you learned from that experience?
🧑💻 Daily Prompt [2024-04-29]: Describe your ideal coding environment. Is it in a dark room alone? A coffee shop? A nearby park? An actual office? #daily-prompt
My answer: I've worked on a project that was far too ambitious and was way beyond the skills that I had at the time. I've learned a LOT from that experience and I think I'm a better... employee because of it. I understand now that once you get the ball moving on a larger effort it is very hard to change trajectory.
Good god. I’m not sure I wanted to know about this: https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/.
I always knew that FFI was hard but this is such a mess…
I feel like I should learn either nim or rust next. 🤔
It's mildly interesting that Silicon Valley doesn't have any submarine cable landings. It seems like the home of most of the giant tech startups would have at least one landing. The closest one is 200 miles south of San Francisco at Morro bay.
Journey into the depths of the Internet with this incredible map showcasing undersea cables and internet exchanges. I have a new version updated for 2024 with some new styling and updated data but I also made a video that shows how our global internet came to be from 2010 to now.
📝: Visualizing the Internet (2024) #dataviz #internet #networking #fiber-optics #map #world #infrastructure #peeringdb #svg #javascript #golang https://sudorandom.dev/posts/internet-map-2024/