What are you doing this week?
5 points by caius
5 points by caius
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!
Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Finishing my job and leaving the IT industry! My last day is Wednesday, then I'm going to ArcTanGent, then a week off and then I start a PGCE (PostGraduate Certificate in Education, the qualification in the UK to be a teacher).
The main point is that you get a lot more direct immediate reward from helping a 14-year-old understand quadratic equations than writing some code that lets a scientist access environmental data so they can do research that might help the government make a policy change that may improve biodiversity or flood/drought resilience. Also I think it'll take away a lot of opportunity for distractions (like lobste.rs...), and I shouldn't have to compete with LLMs any more.
It's the biggest career shift I've done in a while though, and it is going to be quite a shock having to turn up at an exact time looking presentable, rather than the relaxed academic/software culture I've got used to for the last 6.5 years.
I might do a similar thing. Thought about following you via ActivityPub but the link in your profile errors.
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with that. I'm not entirely against it due to teacher opsec though. It's just the web interface, the actual ActivityPub endpoints are all fine, so I think you should still be able to follow me by pasting my handle into your client.
Yeah, I gotcha now. If you move forward with the teaching thing, do post!
I'm blocked to do my paperwork for a similar course in Spain until September 1st when my university reopens. I have my doubts about what stuff to teach and how (gov't worker vs. private schools, etc. but also maths, technology, coding...)
Congrats and good luck becoming a teacher! I suspect your background will be an asset to your future students who are interested in learning how to code but don't know where to begin.
Working on more pixelart for my games and my blog articles, i just published one and lets say, the style i converged on is just walking the line between shitty and funny, see evidence 1 and 2. Both from the same article about ARMv7 emulator improvements. Otherwise at $WORK performance stuff so the customers can actually use the product and in bilbao ill probably visit the start of everyone going crazy for the Aste Nagusia
Working, but also being anxious about my career. I won't be too specific as to not sour the mood too much, but the recent developments have me uneasy about the LLMs and our industry as a whole. I'm not necessarily worried I'm gonna be replaced on a technical merit, but on an economical one. More and more companies are drinking the Kool-Aid and it feels like just a matter of time until mine does too and starts buying into the alleged "cost savings" and optimizations. This is a problem because I don't have a degree and my health issues would make it difficult (if not impossible) to perform many other jobs.
In short, I'm going to try and think about possible options if working in tech ends up not being feasible, happy to read any recommendations you might have!
Other than that, I started reading a friend's blog post on adders (ripple carry, carry skip, etc.), and since I lack formal education in that regard, I'm taking my sweet time digesting and understanding it. Started a side project to aid me in that, namely a visualizer where you can put a bunch of different logic gates, connect them with wires and go through the process step by step to better understand it. Sebastian Lague's video is a big inspiration, but I'm not aiming for something as general purpose as that -- I want this toy to satisfy mostly my needs and potentially be helpful to others.
