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john honked 17 Oct 2024 21:58 +0000

I keep thinking about the first date conversation I overheard at a cafe in Burlingame, where the guy was bragging about how he corrected his mom for referring to "Mexican music" on the radio: "Mom, it's called folklorico!"

john honked 17 Oct 2024 21:52 +0000

Based on what I'm seeing in online parenting discussions, I think there's a niche for a book publishing company that caters to parents whose social anxiety is so severe they can only communicate with their kids via picture books. This stems from how often I see posts like "My second cousin's podiatrist has giardiasis, can anybody recommend a book to help my child understand this???"

Like, you could also just talk to your kid, you don't have to mediate it with ten pages of low-effort rhymes and illustrations.

john honked back 16 Oct 2024 19:39 +0000
in reply to: https://bonk.cozysumo.space/u/knapjack/h/9Q76WZ7BVk8fb7dwQ8

@knapjack I think so. It's not magic, but it is good and worthwhile. The tools are different and can be obtuse for someone coming from another language. It took me quite a while to figure out how to get any value out of the debugger, for example. Programming Go in my day job, I find Quicklisp kinda lacking when compared to the go modules tooling.

Documentation for libraries, even widely-used libraries, can sometimes be so sparse (just a list of function names, go read the source if you want to know what they mean) as to be essentially useless. And maybe McCLIM is extremely obvious to those deeply steeped in Lisp, but goddamn if it's not a challenge for plebs like myself.

Despite those gripes, I try to write Common Lisp code for little side projects when I can. I recently tried making a website with caveman2 and found it really easy to build a JSON API w/ a database backend plus templates to populate HTML. That's a big part of my day job in Go, and I'd rate the two options at a very similar level of ease and effort.

john honked 10 Oct 2024 00:09 +0000

I've just learned that my parents wash out and re-use paper coffee cups. I called them "pretty eco" to tease them about it... apparently my dad prefers to drink from a paper cup rather than a travel mug, and my mom likes to use them as a receptacle for cooking grease.

john honked back 30 Sep 2024 18:38 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/jbcrawford/statuses/113227948595363747

@jbcrawford Sorry to hear Shooting Range Park is in bad shape, I always really admired it when I lived in the area. Nice and big, not expensive, and they were pretty good about enforcing safety whenever I visited.

I loved the Bosque trails, both on foot and on a bicycle, and I'd hate to see them turn into unofficial OHV parks where a kid can't safely walk... so I'm really glad to hear you don't think that will happen! You're right that there's plenty of space elsewhere that's way more conducive anyway.

john honked 24 Sep 2024 23:48 +0000

I liked working in technology a lot more when the industry felt amoral rather than immoral.