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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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2024-09-02 11:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostIntroducing the Humanmade Mark
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 fo...
2024-06-30 19:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's good to be back! (RSI update and... hardware tour?)
(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 comforta...
2024-06-22 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostCompiler-Driven Development in Rust
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 ...
2024-06-01 12:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostStarting Tomorrow: 1-week RSI Hiatus
Folks, 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 go...
2024-04-07 12:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Autism Constellation
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...
2024-03-14 17:48:23 +0000 UTC View PostNixOS: Everything Everywhere All At Once
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 re...
2024-02-17 12:11:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn Search of Code Purity
I was taught formal methods at university but these ultra-safe development techniques are expensiv...
2024-01-16 16:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations
Hi 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...
2023-12-15 13:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat should the next video topic be?
(TLDR: Vote for all interesting-sounding topics for January's non-programming video)
Hi friends! First, a scheduling update:
This week's video's draft title is "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations"...
2023-12-13 11:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostADHD: A Left-handed Brain, In A Right-handed World
Hi 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 ge...
2023-11-15 22:47:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Plain-Text Team
All 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 t...
2023-10-13 15:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post[early] The Plain-Text Team
All 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 wha...
2023-10-06 16:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostMentoring Updates
Hi folks, I have a few Mentoring updates as I'm getting used to doing this more and more: All changes are positive!
- I'm testing out 30 slots on the Mentoring Tier in October. If you wanted a 1:1 session, now is your chance! 2023-10-05 07:47:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The Cult Of Done (now with pretty graphics)
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 J...
2023-09-15 09:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cult of Done
Here 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 ...
2023-09-08 19:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe old schedule is dead!
Long live the new schedule!
Friends, the problems with the last video have made me think about what kind of channel I want, what kind of creator I...
2023-08-31 10:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post6 Mentoring slots available
Hi 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...
2023-08-28 20:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostREWRITE: Rust's Discoveries
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 shou...
2023-08-18 15:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostRust is Made out of Rust
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 pre...
2023-08-17 15:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostHack Your Brain With Soylent
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 convenien...
2023-08-03 18:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostA Good Rust Stack
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 st...
2023-07-20 16:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostHacking your brain with Obsidian.md
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 s...
2023-07-06 17:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostMentoring Updates
Hi 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, ...
2023-06-24 19:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostHow To Speak Basic Rust
Hi 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 y...
2023-06-22 11:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostHacking your brain with elaborate coping mechanisms
Hi 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 PostProduction Rust with Shuttle.rs
Today'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 ...
2023-05-25 14:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostVideo Postponed to next week + updates
I'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...
2023-05-19 09:12:03 +0000 UTC View PostHacking your brain with Polyphasic Sleep
As 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...
2023-05-04 16:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post