Simpson's Speed Holes Clip

Faster PRs - Lower The Barrier Of Entry

Reviewing pull requests is a pain in the hole, but a necessary one. It is also massive time sync if youā€™re actually doing it right. Normal PR Process It often looks like this: Get slack message: ā€œpwetty pwease review my PR :3 pr linkā€ Open in browser, scroll through the code a bit Inner Monologue: ā€œThis looks mostly understandable? Can I can get away without pulling this locally?ā€ Decide to run it locally Stash current branchā€™s changes (remember that you have a stash saved!...

July 24, 2024 Ā· 4 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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Passing Thoughts Become Action

Stopping and smelling the roses šŸŒ¹

July 4, 2024 Ā· 1 min Ā· Conor Lamb

On Getting Discovered

I blog sometimes. I publish a good bit of music as well, and yet, no one knows me. This is fine. I happily mosey through life without internet celebrity, but candidly (and probably humanly), it would be nice to get recognition for the things that I make. So how does one get ā€œdiscoveredā€? Youtube just recommended me this small linux youtuber, who struck me with a Jimmy Neutron style, brain blast on how these algorithms likely work....

March 13, 2024 Ā· 3 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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Making A Language Learning Buddy w/ ChatGPT

Iā€™m at a quietly frustrating point with my German language learning. Itā€™s an uncomfortable expanse within A1-A2 levels where I pick up a myriad of words in a conversation, but Iā€™m still not confident enough to say much. The usual solution here is one of brute force. Go make a fool of yourself, often and brazenly, in the wild. Talk to people around you, have awkward-as-hell conversations. But, how can I cash in on the ChatGPT hype that way?...

January 29, 2023 Ā· 3 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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A Small, Opinionated List of Nice Spots in Berlin

My personal Berlin tourism list.

November 8, 2022 Ā· 5 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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Make debugging suck less. Keep a logbook. šŸ““

Scientists keep logbooks for their findings. Why donā€™t computer scientists? A great place to start doing this is for debugging. Debugging sucks enough as is, make it easier on yourself. A logbook willā€¦ šŸ—ŗ Enumerate where you are in the bug fix journey. Youā€™ll forget this journey when you pick it up tomorrow, write it down. šŸŒ³ Keep you rooted to the ground. (Creating an ā€œissue stackā€.) Related to above, it often feels like youā€™re completely lost in the aether when youā€™re 50 opened browser tabs deep into an issue thatā€™s not even the same issue anymore, its a sub issue of a sub issue....

January 18, 2022 Ā· 2 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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Cool Junk That Conor Finds on the Internet

My collection of things I find on my journeys through the internet.

October 22, 2021 Ā· 5 min Ā· Conor Lamb
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How to make a free resume website and blog in 10 min for programmers (or people unafraid of the command line)

See the website youā€™re reading this on? I didnā€™t make this in 10 minutesā€¦. But I sure could have if I had this tutorial. So hereā€™s how you can make your own customizable resume website or blog for free in 2021 using the Hugo framework, a few commands in the terminal, Github Pages to host it. Skip to Part 1: Letā€™s make a website if you wanna skip my banter šŸ˜”...

September 28, 2021 Ā· 9 min Ā· Conor Lamb