I’m at a quietly frustrating point with my German language learning. It’s an uncomfortable expanse within A1-A2 levels where I pick up a myriad of words in a conversation, but I’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? I’m cautiously optimistic for ChatGPT. It really is amazing, the text responses it can generate are sometimes extremely nuanced and correct. But it’s also is not a silver bullet. Those touting it as the solution for everything may well end up relying on fancy Markov Chains and cause unimaginable damage. But for a semi-trivial thing like a basic language learning buddy, ChatGPT seems like an amazing solution! So here’s the results of my experiment. ...

My personal Berlin tourism list.

Scientists keep logbooks for their findings. Why don’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 will… 🗺 Enumerate where you are in the bug fix journey. You’ll forget this journey when you pick it up tomorrow, write it down. 🌳 Keep you rooted to the ground. (Creating an “issue stack”.) Related to above, it often feels like you’re completely lost in the aether when you’re 50 opened browser tabs deep into an issue that’s not even the same issue anymore, its a sub issue of a sub issue. You’re in a stack of issues. But, if you have each issue written down, as you solve one, you can pop it off the stack and solve the next issue one at a time. Keeping this stack in your head sucks, and its easy to conflate understandings from this current problem with the previous problem. ...

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

See the website you’re reading this on? I didn’t make this in 10 minutes…. But I sure could have if I had this tutorial. So here’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: Let’s make a website if you wanna skip my banter 😔 First off, Why Hugo? I think it’s nifty as hell. You basically only need to write markdown once its set up. ...

Hello World! ❤️, Conor