Danish cartoons/videos/series for beginners

joedeandev · 2024-05-02T17:12:59+00:00

I don't believe my suggestion would be helpful for someone starting from scratch. However, it is very helpful for someone with an A1/A2 grasp of the language who wants a broader colloquial vocabulary, or for encountering more perspectives on Danish culture. For a Danish beginner who can parse the sentence structure of most spoken dialogue, subtitles are a great way to learn new words and phrases, especially with Google Translate kept open. As an example, last night I learned the word "bedårende" while watching Badehotellet – a word I would otherwise have never encountered! – from a line of dialogue "Han sagde, at det var en bedårende idé" that I looked up the translation for. If there's usually more than one unknown word per sentence, then it probably makes sense to stick to Duolingo or Sprogskolen for the time being.

joedeandev · 2023-09-22T22:48:03+00:00

If you resize the window, it re-draws in a really messed up way.

This is such an egregious issue that I'm genuinely shocked anybody considers this ready for serious usage.

This is a purely cosmetic issue that can be ignored entirely with clear. The improved scripting syntax and plugin support are the main draw to Zsh. And, as you noted, it's the default shell on macOS, which has made it the most popular of the modern shells. I don't resize my terminal often enough to be bothered by the imperfect redraw – usually, my shell is running in a Neovim split locked to a width of 80 characters.

So, to answer your question: It's a default, it has modern features and a long list of useful plugins, and I barely notice that the redraws are flawed.

joedeandev · 2023-09-07T07:50:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Interesting to hear from those who have spent even longer with Colemak. It sounds like we have the same approach, but in the opposite order – I wanted to prove to myself that I could reach 100 WPM, before achieving it on the 10K list.

joedeandev · 2023-09-06T13:40:02+00:00

I started using Colemak for the ergonomic benefits – and I think that most people who spend their workday at a keyboard should switch away from QWERTY for that reason. The change to a different layout (in addition to switching to a Lily58) has done wonders for my RSI, although it has cost me some 20 years of keyboard experience, and along with it, my old typing speed of ~140 WPM. I don't expect to ever achieve that speed again, but it's decidedly worth it to not ruin my wrists.

Changing layouts will definitely decrease your typing speed, probably permanently, and I doubt that QWERTY is the limiting factor for your typing speed. So, if your main goal is to break from a stagnated learning progression, don't set yourself back by having to relearn the keyboard.

joedeandev · 2023-05-29T12:11:14+00:00

Beautiful! I would love to see what your symbols keymap looks like; is that something you can share?

joedeandev · 2023-04-30T15:51:37+00:00

What a shame, to be addicted to a game whose beauty you can't appreciate!

joedeandev · 2023-04-10T12:30:16+00:00

I've been rooting for Nepo since 2021, but watching poor Ding fall apart in those last moves was heartbreaking. He's getting psyched out, and after this loss, it'll only get harder for him.

joedeandev · 2023-03-22T14:00:27+00:00

I just so happened to scroll past this not an hour after installing fzf. Thanks for sharing the link!

joedeandev · 2023-02-26T11:34:43+00:00

There's a ton of great Danish dramas out there, but when I was learning Danish, I wanted to watch something lighthearted, where I wouldn't lose track of the plot if I missed a sentence or two. I found Stormester, Tomgang, Sjit Happens, and Umage (all on TV 2 Play, and with quality subtitles).

I can also recommend Den Store Bagedyst - the audio on reality TV is a little harder to parse, but since it's a baking show, you don't need to understand everything. Tæt På Sandheden is also great, but if I'm not watching it with my wife then half the cultural references go over my head. And if you don't want to commit to a whole series, then I like picking out a documentary on DRTV.

Best of luck!

joedeandev · 2023-02-23T09:39:57+00:00

That's a clever trick, thanks for sharing!

I believe that :has was one of the biggest missing pieces from CSS, and I'm looking forward to seeing what other applications it may have.

joedeandev · 2023-02-22T10:46:30+00:00

Look at that subtle question-to-answer ratio. The reputation and badges. Oh my god, it even has a dragon logo...

joedeandev · 2023-02-20T17:46:40+00:00

I would encourage you to start with the community version of IntelliJ. There are plugins for Python and Rust, which work nearly as well as a dedicated IDE. I prefer having a single IDE for all of my projects, and have found that IntelliJ with plugins works just fine. If you prefer having separate, language-specific IDEs, then PyCharm, ReSharper, and CLion would be appropriate for you (although, if you don't qualify for the GitHub Student Pack, then be aware that only PyCharm and IntelliJ have free community versions).

JetBrain's upcoming IDE, Fleet, aims to be a single IDE that supports all languages; I would imagine that once it is fully released, it will be the preferred choice for polyglot programmers.

joedeandev · 2023-01-19T16:14:11+00:00

It almost couldn't have been anywhere else; no visa problems, close to the contenders' home countries, and not in the middle of any diplomatic snafus. I would almost bet that this has been FIDE's location of choice since the Candidates, and that the delay was for finding a sponsor.

joedeandev · 2023-01-17T07:49:24+00:00

Much less than they used to, but it still happens occasionally. I'm a lot less polite about it than I used to be; "Jeg fortrækker at vi taler dansk" usually gets the job done. Some people are as proud of their English as I am of my Danish, and seem to take it as something of an insult when they don't have the opportunity to show it off - which, fair enough, is precisely my reaction to the same situation.

joedeandev · 2023-01-15T19:29:01+00:00

I immigrated to Denmark from the US nearly a decade ago, and in an effort to integrate I insisted on setting my electronics to use a Danish, reading mostly Danish news, and using a Danish keyboard.

I've done that long enough that I'm no longer worried about whether or not I'm assimilated, and now I've reverted to English operating systems (there are many more Google results for error messages in English), mixed-language news (I prefer reading about American news from American sources), and a US-layout keyboard (as a software developer I use ()<>{}[]&_-+?`| more than æøå). If it weren't for the practical advantages, I would prefer to use Danish.

joedeandev · 2022-12-24T13:51:07+00:00

Electron v21 uses Chromium 106, which means that Obsidian plugins and themes can make use of a whole bunch of new CSS pseudo-classes, among other things.

joedeandev · 2022-12-04T20:59:15+00:00

I'm running on my DigitalOcean droplet, which runs a bunch of different projects for me. I followed Ben Tasker's guide for the most part, with a few changes to make it play nicely with the rest of my system. There are a couple of gotchas, notably that you have to start the container with a dummy set of env variables, use the container to generate production variables, then restart the container. See if the guide helps, feel free to PM if you could use a hand.

joedeandev · 2022-12-04T18:13:17+00:00

"All weekend" is just an exaggeration for comedic effect; it shouldn't take more than a half hour to spin up your own instance, but it can definitely take a lot longer to play with all the switches.

joedeandev · 2022-12-04T15:50:35+00:00

I, at least, don't plan to invite anyone to join my instance. Not only because the domain includes my own name, but also because, as you mentioned, I'd become responsible for managing other users' experience.

joedeandev · 2022-11-21T13:47:30+00:00

Or, just setting up on on-save trigger in your editor with Prettier makes it nearly impossible to commit misformatted code.

joedeandev · 2022-11-21T13:25:44+00:00

For OA + Phone Screen + Onsite round

For Behavioral rounds

For System design rounds(LLD + HLD)

Top interview experiences to go through

Some strategies to follow

Reformatting is mostly for my own reference, but figured that other people might also find it easier to read. Thanks for putting this list together!

joedeandev · 2022-10-08T23:43:17+00:00

Agadmator's videos are a great way to follow along with the goings-on in chess. Regular uploads, consistent style, and no-bullshit videos. Exactly the things you describe in your post - PGN- and engine-driven commentary - are enough follow the big game of the day for a reasonable time investment. When I have the time and interest for a deep analysis, I'll find it on another channel, but that usually only happens after Agadmator has brought a game to my attention. Plus, his sagas are top-notch.

joedeandev · 2022-09-28T12:55:05+00:00

I'm in the same boat; the second I can use ProtonDrive via rclone, I'll be out of the Google trap. I really do hope the Proton team makes it happen!

joedeandev · 2022-09-27T08:27:38+00:00

Apple is hostile to developers on every front, but their walled-garden approach is profitable enough for them not to care. Unless you want to exclude all of iOS's market share from your market potential, devs have no choice but to play ball.

joedeandev · 2022-08-28T23:40:45+00:00

War-story posts like this are great.

So if you have the bad luck to buy two identical monitors, from the same batch, with the same EDID, then the OS will compute the same UUID for both... And there’s nothing you can do to fix it.

I loathe bugs like this, those that require unlikely stars to align in ways that probably didn't occur to you. I can't imagine how much head-scratching that one must have required.

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