glotchimo

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by glotchimo 3y ago
Because I genuinely don’t know, what do you mean when you say it’s 20 years behind other languages? Or rather, what features is it lacking that would make it up-to-date? And what languages are 20 years ahead of it?
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Show HN: Tiny command-driven Twitch bot framework for Go(github.com)
3 points by glotchimo 3y ago|1 comments
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by glotchimo 3y ago
It's only the start and very little (like 200 lines) but it's enough to put together some fun/useful interactions. Hoping to get some additional feedback/ideas/contributions if anyone's interested.
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by glotchimo 3y ago
https://blog.plain.technology Bare bones and just getting started, but I’ll hopefully be writing more about the Go projects I’ve been getting into on the side. Everything around the theme of plain technology, simple as can be.
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by glotchimo 3y ago
Whenever asked what period I (a proverbial young person, SWE) would go back to if I had a time machine, I always answer with roughly this period. To be alive during those days to see the development of the shoulders I now stand on would be
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Vim didn’t click for the longest time until I deleted VSCode and used it for everything. Much like with many other concepts/skills, throwing myself in the deep end worked best.
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Yeah I’ve certainly heard that doing something small can help get the engine going, but anecdotally, it totally goes both ways. I’ve had afternoons where I clean something or what have you and get right back to it and others where I clean s
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Something like this might actually be useful for the all-too-common productive procrastination breaks. Stuck on a hard problem? Better clean my desk. Waiting for a build? Better clean my files. Lacking momentum? Better check LinkedIn (it’s
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Seems like Manifold requires a Google account which is definitely a mark against it for many
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Can’t those artifacts be beautiful in and of themselves? Whether or not this represents some deep reality about dimensions, it’s cool to see something like this emerge from a program when working with a bunch of numbers.
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by glotchimo 4y ago
I moved out this year after finishing uni and for the first time ever I’m not completely dreading winter, and this comment contributes. I live in the Pacific Northwest and the worst part of every day of winter was scraping ice and snow off
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by glotchimo 4y ago
I’m fairly fresh in the industry though I’ve been programming for 8-ish years or so (finished uni and got my first “real” software engineering job earlier this year) and for most of that time, I never went on HN and was somewhat isolated fr
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by glotchimo 4y ago
I’m so with you on this. I’ve always loved naming projects and the puzzle of naming variables in increasingly complex systems. Sometimes, if I’m at a loss of a clever one, I use derivations of Greek words for relevant words, and those tend
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Make this time different! Because why not? That feeling could turn into more and feelings can be awesome :)
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by glotchimo 4y ago
I’m sorry to hear you’re struggling through that. Hold onto the magic; I don’t think it’ll ever go away. I hope you’re able to find some respite and recovery! Be well.
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by glotchimo 4y ago
Bottom of this page is a link to his main site: http://alec.land
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by glotchimo 4y ago
> To play the solo campaign, you will have to set your console into offline mode. I’d like to think this would be an easy patch to at least let people down easy, but I don’t know much if anything at all in this context. Why couldn’t they
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by glotchimo 4y ago
I missed it, must have been working or something silly like that