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2024-09-02 11:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends! It's been too long, I know. I have a long road to recovery with my RSI, and it's not always a straight, clear path. I'm doing well, and hope to get back to a more regular schedule soon.
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The above screenshot is the current state of my next video, which I think I am goin...
2024-09-02 11:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks, a kinda weird video this month, but I haven't been able to get this idea out of my head, and I'd like to know what you think before I put it out into the world!
Some questions and notes for you folks:
The PR for suggestions/corrections is here 2024-06-30 19:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
(Photo: My desk, now with 4 RSI pointing devices to switch between! Left to right: MX Vertical, Apple Magic Touchpad, Wacom One (2023) pen tablet, Steam Controller. The split vertical keyboard is the ZSA Moonlander, which is even more comfortable with the vertical tenting kit I now have. For ...
2024-06-22 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
When I write a new Rust program, I don't start with functions or methods or any runtime code. I start with the model of my application, expressed with Rust's rich type system.
Interacting with the real-world, on disk or through the network is too slow for me, at first, I need t...
2024-06-01 12:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostFolks, I've been hit with the worst bi-lateral RSI of my LIFE. I suffer with bouts of it sporadically, and I usually just need to take it easy, switch from using a mouse to using a pen, and it goes away after a day or two.
This time, I've got pain in both wrists, both arms, and both elbows....
2024-04-07 12:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I have grown from an autistic child who needed weekly lessons from a childhood psychiatrist in order to learn how to make eye contact, into an autistic adult who is flying high in an aeroplane made out of comprehensive coping mechanisms.
The way I have made sense of my life, is to find repe...
2024-03-14 17:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Story time:
One day, as happens now and then with a bleeding-edge rolling release distro, a systemd update reversed my mouse buttons.
It only affected my exact mouse driver, which had a bug in it.
The great thing about rolling release and cutting edge distributions like Arch, is...
2024-02-17 12:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I was taught formal methods at university but these ultra-safe development techniques are expensive, require using unusual external verification lan...
2024-01-16 16:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, a video I hinted at in my Plain Text video after saying, "But even if you're storing large files, storage is cheap if you're smart."
And here that video is, the problem is laptops, and the biggest culprit is Apple.
I'd love to know what you think, and thank you so m...
2023-12-15 13:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post(TLDR: Vote for all interesting-sounding topics for January's non-programming video)
This week's video's draft title is "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations" - the topic hinted at in my Plain Text Team ...
2023-12-13 11:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, this video is about ADHD, and is my follow-up from my "Coping Mechanisms" video.
Despite not being left-handed, I do have a great deal of empathy for our left-handed cousins because of my ADHD: Some tools, like scissors, you can get a left-handed version of, of course. You can fil...
2023-11-15 22:47:45 +0000 UTC View PostAll good teams are alike; each bad team is bad in its own way. (to paraphrase Tolstoy)
Software is an incredible thing. Combined with the internet, a small team of friends can change the world overnight. Every company, no matter what their industry, must now run a tech team, eve...
2023-10-13 15:54:14 +0000 UTC View PostAll good teams are alike; each bad team is bad in its own way. (to paraphrase Tolstoy)
Software is an incredible thing.
Combined with the internet, a small team of friends can change the world overnight.
Every company, no matter what their industry, must now run a tech team, even i...
2023-10-06 16:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks, I have a few Mentoring updates as I'm getting used to doing this more and more: All changes are positive!
Hi folks! You all will have seen this exact video, so there's no need to watch it again, except that at the 11th hour I got permission from James Provost to use his lovely illustrations!
As I say in the video, this is huge for me, as I had James's poster up on my wall when I first came to L...
2023-09-15 09:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere is next week's video, A FULL WEEK early! Welcome to the new schedule!
The Cult of Done manifesto was written by maker, Bre Pettis and writer, Kio Stark in 2009, and they released it under a creative commons licence. I read it that same year, as the ideas swept through the maker communi...
2023-09-08 19:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostFriends, the problems with the last video have made me think about what kind of channel I want, what kind of creator I am, and what kind of schedule I should keep.
<... 2023-08-31 10:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks! 6 slots available on the Mentoring tier, if you'd like a 1:1 chat on Rust, audio/video production or anything I talk about in my videos, do sign up.
Also, I've just freed up the second week of August in my calendar, so if you weren't able to book, please check again!
Lots of...
2023-08-28 20:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends, yesterday's early video was trash and I'm sorry. I've been up half the night re-writing it and I'm MUCH happier with this one!
HUGE shout-out to @speykious and @laund on the discord serv...
2023-08-18 15:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks! Whatever you want to do, Rust seems to be able to do it, doesn't it?
It's supremely adaptable. But why is this?
I think it's because Rust is made out of Rust.
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I hope you like today's video, I was extremely pressed for time this week, which tends to cause mist...
2023-08-17 15:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks! Another exposé into my strange life! Most of my meals are meal replacements, nutritionally complete drinks or instant meals, and they have been for the last 10 years.
These tools are incredible for a lot of reasons, from convenience to health to price.
I have tips and recom...
2023-08-03 18:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends!
Today I'm going to make some web service recommendations, mixing some of my favourite rust crates together into something that I use across most of my Rust projects.
The stack I'm going to talk about today isn't the best stack, nor most fully featured or fanciest.
It...
2023-07-20 16:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I have used many note-taking tools over the years, simple-note, notion, and extensively emacs org-mode, none have improved my thinking in the way that Obsidian has.
Today is a deep-dive into my second brain, and if you take my advice, YOUR second brain.
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I wasn't supposed to ...
2023-07-06 17:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends, both old and new! Firstly, thank you so much for being here and supporting me, it's not really sunk in yet that I can do all this as my job. THANK YOU!
Secondly, Mentoring update: It looks like there are 2 slots available, so if you've been waiting, sign up now! I look for...
2023-06-24 19:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks! A short one today, I think this will be the first of a long-term 3-part, explaining rustcand clippy's output from basic, through intermediate, to advanced.
I hope you like it! It was fun collecting all these examples, if you have your own favourites, do share below, or on discord ...
2023-06-22 11:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends, quite a personal video today! I have managed to become highly productive with these coping mechanisms, and perhaps some of them will work for you!
Thanks so much for your support :-)
2023-06-08 16:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostToday's video is a look at shuttle.rs's infra-from-code deployment system.
I first played with Shuttle last autumn, and was very impressed with what I saw, so when they reached out looking for an advert, I was delighted, I'm always happy to help Rust-focussed companies, and shuttle is doing...
2023-05-25 14:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostI'd hoped I could finish the video but covid is a harsh mistress. Sorry all, I must push the video back a week (25th).
First time I've had the virus, and it's no fun is it! I'm through the worst of it, but it hit me quite hard with fever for two days earlier in the week, which has wiped me ...
2023-05-19 09:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs hackers, we are always trying to get more out of our tools and ourselves. Stealing back hours from sleep is an incredible - and very achievable - technique. Today I'm talking about my experience sleeping only 5 hours a day with Polyphasic sleep.
Thank you all for your support, I hope you...
2023-05-04 16:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post