Developer Training and Knowledge
“What are the costs?” ought to be a natural question provided alongside “what are the benefits?”. This doesn’t get asked often enough in the discussions of new tools/technologies.
The costs/benefits implicitly impact discussions since the trade-offs will be different in different situations.
As a developer, I ought to have this in mind when consuming discussions. To get better [...]
Early Impression of Elm
Recently I wrote some Elm-lang code as part of a casual side-project. The Elm program was simple, though non-trivial.
The program was a UI for making notes from emails. The Elm program presented a list of emails for the user to select, and let the user CRUD a note for the selected email. Some changesets: - https://github.com/rgoulter/simple-email-data-tool/pull/1/files Initially adding [...]
On Agile
“Agile”, “Scrum” and “Kanban” all get a rather bad reputation among developers on the internet. They seem to work well for some teams, but for others these are “waterfall or spiral development in agile clothing”. At worst, teams take tasks off a todo list however they would anyway and call it ‘agile’. At best, maybe the differences can be explained [...]
On the 2019 UK Election Results
I found these two comments interesting: 1. Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/LukePagarani/status/1205487970897342464?s=20 What I get from this is: The perspective is a leftist voter discussing that people he met didn’t value the same things that Labour/Corbyn did. Such voters valued their national identity, and so really didn’t like Corbyn. 2. Quillette post https://quillette.com/2019/12/13/britains-labour-party-got-woke-and-now-its-broke/ I find it interesting that these two comments more/less [...]
First Impressions of Halo Reach
So the Halo Master Chief Collection made its debut on Steam with Halo Reach. This seems to be in line with Microsoft making money based on the brands they’ve built up before. e.g. They’ve re-released Age of Empires II in an “HD Edition”; and recently re-released Age of Empires II in a “Definitive Edition”. (That said, in addition to graphical [...]
Consumption Driven Organising
I’ve been meaning to try and write down some things about the way I organise things. I’m still improving, trying to keep the stuff that ‘works’ and ditch the stuff which I’m not consuming. Anki: I’ve been using Anki for learning Vietnamese vocabulary. Yeah, one tip is to use it on a smartphone; that really reduces friction for revising the [...]
The Witcher 3
There’s a line from the recent Avengers movie going around: Hero: “You took everything from me!” Villain: “I don’t even know who you are”. This reminded me I’d experienced a moment just like that when playing The Witcher 3.
It’s a moment which I think gives a good summary of what the overall experience of playing The Witcher 3 [...]
Hitman 2 and its Difficulty Curve
I’ve been playing the recent Hitman 2 quite a bit. I never played the earlier Hitman games, but from comments I’ve seen in YouTube videos, it seems the situation is a bit analogous to the Tomb Raider series: for one, the recent games re-use the same titles as earlier games. (There’s a “Hitman 2” which was released in 2002; which [...]
Netflix's Dark is Great
Most of my blob-around time goes to YouTube rather than to Netflix. Before I had Netflix, I was worried that it would suck up all my spare time. Like how Netflix’s “Dark” sucked up all my time. “Dark” is a show which was written for the kind of people who love modelling things with graphs, and KT45 modal logic. I [...]
You Might Like "Anne with an E" If...
You might like Netflix’s “Anne with an E” if: - You value current-year progressive ideals, unlike the stupid, ignorant and bad people who hold values you find gross. - You hate close-minded people. - You can’t understand why late 19th century rural farmers don’t hold modern urban bourgeois moral values. - You watched the 10-hour YouTube video of “Gillette commercial”. [...]