mathew ✅ @mathew@mastodon.social

i've spent the last 6 months mad about nfts. and i guess i finally got mad enough to write it all down. ->

https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3

hey there! my name's kez, and i'm trying to escape an abusive household

i've been putting this post off for a while because i didn't think my situation was that bad, but i've recently been forced to ackowledge the fact that the people i live with are extremely abusive, and that living here is extremely dangerous for me. i'm trying to move in with my girlfriend, but getting an apartment with her is going to require me to make around $800 a month

i'm looking for a remote job. i'm a programmer, with experience in fullstack and systems development. i've got 7 years experience with python, and a few years experience with c, sql, front-end languages, django, flask, and linux. i'm a (small-scale) linux sysadmin. i've got experience with a wide array of languages and paradigms (crystal, php, c#, glsl es, nodejs, haskell, functional, oop). i learn extremely quickly, and i can teach myself a working knowledge of a language in about a week for simple languages like php, or a few months for complex languages like haskell

i've built some extremely complex systems, i've written a code generator for an oop research language that emitted llvm-ir, i've implemented web application sessions and session-based auth completely from scratch. i've contributed extensively to type stubs for django and even wrote a package to monkey-patch django to work around edge-case bugs in mypy

if you or someone you know is looking to hire a remote developer or freelancer, please let me know! this is slightly time-sensitve but not *super* urgent. i'm trans and disabled, so they'd have to be chill about that kind of thing

boosts are super appreciated, thank you for taking the time to read <3

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Terrifyingly accurate

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1363455476332126209

The iceberg of "how programmers think memory works" versus... how it actually works.

Anyway, I found this essay which breaks down, line by line, some of the rhetorical tactics Alexander uses to make his bullshit arguments feel like you're reading deep intellectual thoughts. Super helpful, a prime example of extremely useful thinking tools that they never teach you in STEM class.

http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/

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Turns out Shockwave Rider, on information pollution, was astonishingly prescient. 50 years ago, he called it. But SoZ is well worth reading.

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