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📢 A Maker Manifesto

https://wiki.hackmanhattan.com/User:Beadsland/Manifesto

Making is all about screwing up.

It's about having the confidence to screw up in increasingly creative ways.

It's the art of getting it wrong with such flair and panache that you can't help but be entertained by your own ineptitude.

It's the ability to foil so many of your own plans that you are left with no option but to stumble into a solution that works.

A solution, that when found, leaves you awestruck by what you have accomplished.

And it is in pursuit of that awe that the Maker makes.

Programming, a story:

"I want to create X." *start creating X*

"Oh, no. I'll need to create Y to properly do X." *start creating Y*

"Oh, wait, Y really would make better sense with Z." *start developing Z*

"Meh, I'm sick of doing this work without Ω." *start putting together Ω*

"This would all work better if only I had ß." *start building ß*

Jack, ✓. House, ✓. Malt, ✓. Rat, ✓. Cat, ✓. Dog, ✓. Cow, ✓. Turtle, ✓. Turtle, ✓. Turtle, ✓. Turtle, ✓...🐢↓ 🐢↧ 🐢↯

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Imposter syndrome is the belief that because you are capable of the virtue of doubt, you're somehow less prepared for the challenges of life than the many hubristic arseholes who lack the sense to recognize any consequences of their own poor judgment.

The world doesn't need more overconfidence. It needs more folk comfortable with doubt, of themselves, of their practices and institutions. Questioning our ability or preparedness to do a thing is not the same as being unable to do that thing.

In other news:

Insomnia when exhausted, plus work crews below one's window.

TFW the language interpreter you just apt installed is 7 minor versions behind and you're given to understand that that's the difference between it building dependencies or not and you're so tired that the prospect of unzipping a tarball is too daunting to think about, so you just toot a "TFW" post and call it a day.

Saw a toot recently about "National _____ Day", but failed to bookmark it.

Anyone got any information on this day to celebrate national days?

Louis Rossmann DESTROYS Technet corporate lobbyist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt2KDtDt940

We seem to never go more than a few months before the intersection below my window is yet again dug up. This happens three to four times a year, and has done for as many years as I can recall.

If there are any other intersections in a ten block radius that have been dug up even once in that time, I'm sure I don't know where they are.

Very little of what a programmer expresses in a program ever, upon compilation or interpretation, is performed by the computer.

Instead, the computer performs a series of operations conceptually unrelated to most everything the programmer has written, which happen—only through their formulaic arrangement by the compiler/interpreter—to kick off (via the mechanical contrivances of hardware) chains of side effects which the human programmer interprets as performance of the task they programmed.

A reminder that assembly language is already a higher-level language as compared to machine opcodes, and thus incomprehensible to a computer without a translation step.

Even without macros, each assembly instruction is a mnemonic gloss for a classes one or more operations that are inflected by the compiler into distinct and non-interchangeable opcodes as a function of the mode of their operand. Where the mode, in turn, is typically expressed through sigil or other syntactic sugar.