This is my tableflip post. I promised to write one, so here it is. It’s not very salacious, honestly.
Librarian, developer, engineer, maker, bird nerd
This is my tableflip post. I promised to write one, so here it is. It’s not very salacious, honestly.
An important piece of internet privacy is under attack, and I’m asking for help protecting it. The EFF explains it well, but short version: every domain (the part of a web address that comes after “www” and includes something like “.org” or “.com” — in the case of this blog,…
Edit, over a month later: Turns out, something very much like the device I was complaining that nobody had designed has since been announced. It’s fairly attractive, can be worn in a number of different ways (no word on its accuracy, though), and it has an inactivity alert. Bonus: it…
I think there are two keys to why I was a successful electrical engineer, when I did not (initially) succeed as a computer scientist—despite being more interested in the latter, to begin with, and despite wanting to pursue the latter now. The first key: invisible struggle, no displays of fallibility…
I started writing my annual changing-of-the-calendar-year post, and I realized I was spilling a lot of virtual ink on, arguably, a pretty small aspect of my year — because, while it’s kind of unimportant, in the scheme of things, it also takes a little explanation. And it’s fun! So, rather…
I thought about writing a really long post about handling Unicode in Python, but, honestly, you should go watch this video; that’s where most of my points would have come from, anyway. (It’s a great video! It’s funny and helpful and relevant, whether you use Python 2 or 3. I…
I had the opportunity, at work (and a bit outside of work), to learn the GitHub API, as wrapped by Python’s github3 module. I found the documentation really hard to follow, maybe because I don’t have a lot of experience reading API docs, or because it wasn’t organized in the…
Look! A short post with just one or two “things learned” in it! Follow-through! :) I’ve rediscovered something more annoying than Unicode (or rather ASCII; I blame ASCII, since we should all be using Unicode, always, at this point) – time.
Three weeks have gone by. I still don’t feel like a real developer, most of the time. But there are glimmers, moments when I do. Usually it’s right after I finish a little script of some sort, or I give a funny name to a variable (while still following PEP 8), or I use a clever shortcut, or I realize I’m writing really opinionated code. There’s that moment of “YES! I am good at this!”