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If you are interested in joining the first batch or subsequent batches, please let me know.
Despite this being a paid "course", in keeping with the ethos of open, all learning materials developed for each batch will be open sourced, so each batch contributes more and more quality learning content for everyone.
You will be challenged with intense course work that pushes you to learn faster, and you will be required to share your learning publicly to help everyone else level up too.
Help Software Engineers with 1-2 years of working experience rapidly level up their technical and soft skills.
For the first batch starting in March 2025, I am looking to work with only 5 Backend Engineers looking to bring their game up to the next level.
Last year, I decided not to launch open camp as I felt that the market didn't require another coding bootcamp - even if it is affordable with its content open sourced.
After speaking with lots of folks since late last year, I believe I have found a new angle for open camp:
Really happy with Tailwind 4.0 beta so far. Had to port the JS config to CSS config, but the upside is the ridiculously fast compile times!
tailwindcss.com/docs/v4-beta...
In case you have ever wondered how a sea apple looks like.
Really pretty under this light
Being able to stay patient in this world that is always trying to drive anxiety into us is a skill that everyone ought to practice more.
And... here we go!
Candorship helps you build radically open organizations and communities. A quick landing page to get the momentum going.
Time to start building!
I am starting work on Candorship, a tool to help organizations and communities be radically transparent.
Will be open source + built in public, so stay tuned for it
Summer Flowers? At Sydney Town Hall.
Github Copilot Edit works very well for me, especially when paired with Claude Sonnet 3.5.
If you treat the process as a Code Review process instead of blindly hitting accept, you will find that LLMs do help quite a fair bit in the process.
I do fondly remember reading Groklaw almost daily during the SCO lawsuits, even though I was in high school and don't quite understand all the details.
(Regardless of what Darl McBride has done, I do not wish for anyone to have to suffer from ALS.)
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4204...
The real game-changer for Macs is the fact that 13" and 15" Macbook Airs now come with 16GB ram by default!
That makes their base model an easy recommendation for most people now.
A steam deck, and a similar looking device below in white color.
This is... not a Steam Deck.
Instead, Beth Le has made her own steam deck using the mainboard and battery from Framework together with 3D printed parts.
It's amazing what Framework has enabled folks to be able to build.
Link: www.printables.com/model/105141...
Self-hosted Joplin for my own note taking needs.
It was a fairly easy process with Docker Compose to get the sync server up and running.
Was self-hosting Standard Notes previously, but was sad to find out that searching within a note was a paid feature if we are not using the web interface 🫣
A screenshot of how vertical tabs look like on Firefox, with 4 tabs open on the left side of the browser: WhatsApp, YouTube, Github, and Mastodon.
Time for my annual browser switch; this year I am back to using Firefox on my laptop and mobile.
And I gotta say: Vertical tabs for Firefox looks so good! Plus it takes up way lesser space than Arc's implementation.
Alice and Bob play a game, where they both know two probability distributions p,q. Alice starts by tossing a fair coin, and does not show the outcome to Bob: if it is Heads, then she draws x from p; if it is Tails, she draws x from q. Then she shows the value of x to Bob, who must guess if the coin toss was Heads. Clearly, just by random guessing, Bob can win the game with probability 1/2. But he can do better: there is a strategy for him to win with probability 1/2+TV(p,q)/2 and, moreover, this is the best possible.
A small nugget from this week's lecture on randomized algorithms. Introducing total variation (TV) distance between probability distributions to Alice, and Bob.
Compared to the amount of configuration needed for Neovim, setting up Helix is a walk in the park.
Helix needed only a few config tweaks to get it to a good enough state for me to get to work 🎉
That sounds like a really good way to let them have closure. Do you share these stories with the players after the game?
Folks playing D&D / Pathfinder: what do you do with your dead characters?
#dnd #pathfinder
This is a really awkward time to be buying a new Intel laptop. Time will tell if the ARM revolution is coming for Windows laptops too, which is long overdue.
Wagtail has been easier to integrate into an existing project than I initially thought. Love that I can quickly drop back into normal Django views to handle non-CMS views.