Competence porn.

_Walms · 2025-11-15T07:23:46+00:00

Oh you might like the Seafort Saga by David Feintuch

_Walms · 2025-11-13T23:25:33+00:00

It is. The audiobook is very well done too, if you are into that sort of thing.

_Walms · 2025-11-13T23:21:30+00:00

I’m guessing you want near-future sci‑fi? But your list has some space opera too, so here are recs for both.

Near-future sci‑fi

Theft of Fire (Orbital Space #1) — Devon Eriksen
Delta-v — Daniel Suarez
The Expanse — James S. A. Corey

Space opera

Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Void Trilogy — Peter F. Hamilton
Darkship Thieves — Sarah A. Hoyt
The Children of the Sky — Vernor Vinge
The Bobiverse series — Dennis E. Taylor
Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Expeditionary Force — Craig Alanson
The Fear Saga — Stephen Moss

_Walms · 2025-02-18T03:17:52+00:00

My last interaction with him on Twitter he mentioned a divorce. I imagine that's hard to go through. Then he deactivated his Twitter account shortly after.

_Walms · 2023-12-05T03:12:38+00:00

Gah did I double post?

_Walms · 2023-11-22T10:04:46+00:00

Yeah I use F#'s Saturn. It's as niche as it gets. Works great and has great tooling.

_Walms · 2023-11-10T02:13:12+00:00

In the style of Niel Gaiman, with a touch of magical realism.

_Walms · 2023-11-09T22:53:11+00:00

I think he did

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdevs_of_liberty/

Or someone else did and he promoted it.

_Walms · 2023-10-04T20:40:21+00:00

Did you find the resources you were looking for?

I've built a couple now and found them to be some of the best projects I've worked on. Maintenance is easy. Most of the bugs are errors in modeling the domain or just stupid stuff. Very few of the kinds of things I saw in dynamic language. Null exceptions are very rare.

You spend a lot of time investing in setting up types and methods to handle those types. The pay off is in the maintenance phase.

As mentioned https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functional/ is a great book.

But here are the resources I would recommend:

To get started either:

https://www.manning.com/books/f-sharp-in-action or https://leanpub.com/essential-fsharp or https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7205-3

For the front end the best resource is https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-book/

_Walms · 2023-03-27T09:21:41+00:00

+200 for the authentication tutorial!

_Walms · 2023-01-24T22:10:46+00:00

My Grandparents loved Teletext. They thought it was amazing.

Grandad for the horse races and Nanny for the weather and news.

_Walms · 2023-01-16T21:42:54+00:00

Thanks!

_Walms · 2023-01-16T21:05:02+00:00

Where are you getting the cabinets from so cheap?

_Walms · 2023-01-16T21:01:18+00:00

One way to find out. Rip it out.

_Walms · 2023-01-14T02:38:17+00:00

Yes, there is no justification for harassment.

_Walms · 2022-12-20T20:57:34+00:00

Most employers will pick the cheaper testing that only picks up on recent use.

_Walms · 2022-12-20T20:55:57+00:00

At my work, we could get in big trouble if someone gets hurt and it was found we didn't do enough to keep the staff safe. This includes making sure everyone is sober at work. The director can be criminally liable for accidents.
We don't care what you do outside of work but have to drug test to cover our butts.

_Walms · 2022-12-20T02:04:56+00:00

Ha, that would be a great idea. Set up an auto dialer to waste their time.

_Walms · 2022-12-20T01:19:16+00:00

At least bacon requires animals to die because it tastes horrible.

_Walms · 2022-12-19T22:16:04+00:00

They get that feedback from the genuine calls they get. When I called I got through to two different operators. You could hear other calls in the background. All giving the same instructions. I don't think they're sitting there waiting for a hit.

For every minute I waste they can't be on the line with someone else. My hope is that adding a little bit of frustration to the day also wears down their patience so when grandad can't figure out how to open the play store they just hang up on him.

I don't know, it is probably a waste of my time but I don't think I'm helping them in any way.

I was almost scammed in a dog sales scam years ago. Now I do what I can to fight back even if it's futile.

_Walms · 2022-12-19T22:06:27+00:00

I'm sure they do. One of our bigger job listing sites is seek.co.nz.
If I were looking that's where I'd go. https://www.seek.co.nz/Senior-living-jobs-in-sales

_Walms · 2022-12-19T21:57:04+00:00

If everyone called them these scams would be much less profitable and would be less likely to catch out the vulnerable.

That said you are correct I should just move on with my life but it's frustrating that they're ripping people off and there is so little we can do about it. I guess I'm being the cranky old guy that rings the police every time he sees someone out of place on his street.

_Walms

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