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mdlbearN and the kids are moving at the end of this week. I'm stressed.
I've been doing a lot of reading, mostly about Elm, which is a pure functional language that compiles into Javascript. I appear to have decided to implement a couple of apps in it -- I'll blog about my progress, if I don't get too engrossed in actually doing it. I've spent most of Friday, yesterday, and today programming, but have very little to show for it yet.
Much of this was triggered by a take-home programming challenge that was the next step in applying for a job at NoRedInk.com, which does all their front-end work in Elm. I failed miserably, realized that I needed to do a substantial amount of learning, and started working on my apps.
You'll find lots of reference material, mostly on Elm and Javascript, in the notes.
0513Su Mother's Day * Up 6:15; W=2-5.2, S=7:15; * make set-hooks work even if run from .../git/ @ Managing a professional website with Nikola, LaTeX, Github and Travis CI Points out, however, that having to install LaTeX on every build increases the build time by about 10 minutes. @ Friend dates are as important as romantic dates. (ysabetwordsmith) * call Mom; left message, she called back around 3pm * music sang Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts at C's request. : 3:10ish N back from Seattle. * take Archive out of MakeStuff; move preorder.cgi, with history, to hsx.com or users/steve. -> move the whole sub tree, actually. -> move preorder.cgi and twitter.lsp to users/steve; restore 2014.done after deleting the whole subtree without looking too carefully @ A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home | Thrive Global S(L) * Finished Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker. Brilliant. * got rid of most instances of Tools; chaoswolf/chaoswolf.org are in an odd state 0514Mo * up 6am; S=7; ~ (N) 7:15 leave. S. Whidbey Middle is past the high school, on the left. 7:45am checkin j state assessment South Whidbey Middle 5476 Maxwelton Rd @ Smart-Home Lightning Hacks | Linux Journal * Pay AX bill. -> You’re pre-approved for a personal loan of up to $40,000 at a maximum APR of 11.97% hmm. Tempting, but payments would add to the shortfall. -> $359.40APR24 MEDICAL ALARM CONCEPTS MEDICAL ALARM C - KING OF PRUSS, PA - WTF? -> Medi-Pendant - thought I'd cancelled, but apparently not. leave 9:40 for 10ish pick up. 2 hour exam. * lock house by 1pm (done by 11) * retrieve the sentence starting "whatever my title may be..." for S.S.net intro. * apply at Etsy, which has a blog titled "code as craft" -> got some interest on Slack (S(L)) @ EFAIL Paper [PDF] Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted emails—uninstall now [Updated] Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now | EFF Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw | EFF : 10pm it is still way too hot. 0515Tu * Up 5am; W=204.6, S=5:52; ~ j: testing. may have to leave 9:45ish to pick up; depends on m's state @ Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part II: Using the Cloud | Linux Journal @ 3 Twitter clients for the Linux command line | Opensource.com could use twidge to post links. apt-packaged @ A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue – freeCodeCamp Links to non-free courses. React + Gatsby. Redux for state. GraphQL Read Me - Redux somewhat elm-architecture-like >Scalable FE with Redux and Elm architecture – Son Tang – Medium Table of Contents — Practical Modern JavaScript ES6 Learn Redux — 20 video tutorials to help you learn how to build JavaScript apps with React.js and Redux. free (but video) Leveling Up with React: Redux | CSS-Tricks (part 3 of a series; 1 and 2 linked) @ Building A React/Redux/Elm Bridge - JavaScript Inside Moving from React-Redux to Elm @ Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. - The New York Times Audio Adversarial Examples Cocaine Noodles: Exploiting the Gap between Human and Machine Speech Recognition * leave 1230ish * 1:45p Sleep center follow-up * groceries on the way back, e.g. Safeway * Walk with m to the middle of Middle and back % I should just stop trying to make hamburgers. I suck at it. The larger ones came out underdone, and the alarm went off as usual. Not good for me. @ pgrange/bash_unit: bash unit testing framework for testing bash _functions_ Bash Unit Testing from First Principles on unwiredcouch.com % 8pm tense, stressed. Jaw clenched. Volatile and flaky; not handling frustration well A glass of wine _might_ help? Trying it anyway. : spent much of the afternoon and evening reading about Redux, React, and unit testing. The last was useful; the first two would be trivial in Elm. : apparently 5 loads of laundry with second rinse is enough to overload the septic system. :P % I'm beginning to suspect that in many contexts, "sorry" means something like "my perfectionism is showing" 0516We * Up 5am; S=6.23, W=204.6; mask fit 85% with the M/W pillow, so we won't use that anymore @ A look at terminal emulators, part 2 [LWN.net] -> mlterm -- fast, featureful, very complex configuration with multiple files in .mlterm, with a a GUI configurator. Probably not. * 10am expect call from (head of engineering) Dan at Sun Basket -> potentially a very good fit -- database and front-end work is elsewhere, so it's a better match to my strengths than most of the places I've looked at. -> small team, mostly distributed - HQ in SF, head of engineering lives in KY. @ progress: Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv) % realized that I'd accidentally signed up for the Carleton reunion in 2018, not 2019. Followed wrong link? Anyway, that explains why on-campus housing is full. * unregister for Reunion 2018 :P If you need to make changes, please contact Alumni Relations, 800-729-2586 / 507-222-4205. % left elbow feels ok today, but the thumb joint problem is worse. Tendinitis? * 4:30 singing lesson. Sang Mr. Tamborine Man. Didn't take guitar, to give my left thumb a bit of a rest. @ 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries — Smashing Magazine @ Questionable Content Awwwww % 7:20 apparently I've had a lot of muscle tension lately. There doesn't seem to be as much of it right now, but I feel tired; I think the tension has just moved to muscles I can't identify well enough to relax. I can often relax my abdominal? muscles when I stand up, but that only lasts for a few seconds. 0517Th * up 6:15; W=204.6, S=7,2; @ Evelyn Glennie | The World's Premier Solo Percussionist (Aluphone - Wikipedia) @ Millennials in the gig economy | Deloitte Insights L() @ Transcrypt - Python in the browser - Lean, fast, open! L(Jim Dennis) * The thing about Gatsby is that it expects everything to look like structured data, including web pages. See, for example, Querying for data in a blog. Not really an issue in an app, which is going to _need_ structured data and simply using its back end to persist it. It's not what you want for a blog, wiki, or other static site. Actually, you _can_ reference static files: Adding Images, Fonts, and Files | GatsbyJS ... but normally they just get bundled into the SPA. You probably can't use Gatsby to style your static pages. -> Gatsby might actually be a good fit for HSX. Would need a cut-the-mustard wrapper @ I just asked 23,000 developers what they think of JavaScript. Here’s what I learned. @ Reason · Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems. * car loan 25 days past due. Wired $1k from UBOC * packing with N. Sheets and towels -- takes a huge load off our limited closet space * drunken chicken with j -- he did most of the work. Used up the sushi rice. @ The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types " I called our data type manipulations a “coincidence,” but the connection actually rests on solid mathematical ground. Our tricks can be justified by the fact that ADTs form a semiring. " % spent an hour (felt like; might have been less) folding sheets and putting them into the closet. Depleted. % 9 dishes. Taking a break because back hurts. * pay car loan. Make sure the money's there. Leaves everything dangerously low. I should put Mom's check into the household account when it arrives 0517Fr * Up 5am; S=6; shower (actually woke up a little after 4am) * noredink takehome - two hour slot RIGHT AFTER COFFEE -> failed, of course -- I was learning Elm as I went along. Urk! If I'd gotten the timer app going it would have been easy * Started my two apps: Checkoff and Timatoes (from Time and Tomatoes, of course) Spent the entire day (less meals) mostly on Checkoff. Gradually getting the hang of the type system and the general layout, and figuring out the build system. You have to actually build it with elm-make (which of course I stuck into a Makefile). 0518Sa * Up 6am; W=202.6, S=6:46; (nb: S time includes about an hour of just lying there. @ Weekend Reading: Backups | Linux Journal Scary Backup Stories | Linux Journal @ elm-check 2.0.0 elm-test 3.0.1 (from search on "elm unit test") laszlopandy/elm-console: Elm library to read and write to the console in Node. (2) Single-Page Web Apps in Elm: Part Three - Testing and Structure | LinkedIn @ Elm Bootstrap elm-bootstrap: Responsive and reliable web apps with Elm and Twitter Bootstrap @ cmditch/elm-ethereum: DApps in Pure Elm @ benthepoet/elm-purecss: A set of Pure CSS helpers for Elm. @ Why Elm? (And How To Get Started With It) | CSS-Tricks @ Base for a game in Elm 0.17 - Ossi Hanhinen good intro and tutorial * return library books; & stop at WiFire for decaf iced mocha * SL: prescription for N, pantsu at RiteAid; cat litter * SL: cat food, hot/spicy V8, 2 cucumbers, 2 sweet onions, small cartons of (raspberry, key lime, lemon, blackberry) yogurt, ground beef, portabellos for stuffing, ice cream salted caramel or cookie dough, fruit not citrus or apple caprese, chicken tikka * dinner: caprese (sliced mozzerella and roma tomatoes make it easy), stuffed portabello mushrooms, bake-at-home bread (which was -probably- superfluous) * N collects sheets the way I collect luggage. Her statement, not mine. % Colleen upset because of a couple of "can't hear" incidents. N. pointed out that to most people, "can't hear" equates to "talk louder", while for me it means "please wait until I'm done". Should change my language. "busy"? "later"? "can't listen"? "not now"? -> that's probably the clearest. Possibly follow with detail. "just a minute" is similar.
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Date: 2018-05-21 10:04 am (UTC)... You've probably already gotten it, but I suppose I should explain for onlookers. The language has no runtime exceptions. Runtime exceptions are usually handled by a try/catch mechanism. Therefore in Elm, there is no try.
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Date: 2018-05-21 03:12 pm (UTC)There are things that take the place of exceptions, but you have to handle them explicitly.
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Date: 2018-05-25 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-25 04:15 pm (UTC)P.S. Did you forget to log in?
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Date: 2018-05-27 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-27 06:00 pm (UTC)