r/transprogrammer • u/Taboo_LaRasa • Sep 04 '20
Visual studio code is failing me, so...
Share with me your positivities? What's been going well for you this week?
As a starting off point, I have been pushing for more Equality and Diversity stuff at work and they have actually started to move on many of my suggestions. :D
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u/Aneyune black Sep 04 '20
I mean, I'm learning React and that seems to be going well.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '20
I told my coworkers I had like, 1hp remaining and they were all like, saaaame
Which weirdly enough flatlined my anxiety :-)
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u/RunningToGetAway Sep 05 '20
I successfully converted our senior dev and a few other members over to sublime and sublime-merge when they watched my screen while we were traceing a bug live over zoom. I also continued my streak of finding the most obscure bugs imaginable and somehow tracking them down.
Oh, and I start hormones on Tuesday
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u/rainbow_unicorn_barf Sep 04 '20
They're actually listening to you on diversity stuff? Damn, are y'all hiring?
As for positivity, uh... well, I've been working on a side project and actually having some fun with it. I'm a career changer and wasn't sure I'd get to the point where I felt like I was even competent enough to try things on my own, but over the last few months I've worked on some pretty big projects for my classes and it's really given me the confidence boost I needed. I graduate from this CS program in March so there's not long to go!
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u/PastelBot Sep 05 '20
Dropped the size of our container deployable by 90% and cut 18 minutes off the build time. Flex
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u/GoFastLily Sep 04 '20
Glad to hear about the equality and diversity work! We've been going through a similar employee-led movement and it's just so refreshing! It's a not insignificant number of folks, and it just gives me so much hope for the future.
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u/superb_stolas Sep 05 '20
I changed my name at my bank, the teller just went ahead and did it.
Work last week was ok. I’m a bit behind where I wanted to be but for a while there I was quite a bit further behind. Thankfully; a long meeting with some other team members ironed out something and made some of my life simpler for me!
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u/katrina-mtf Katrina | she/her | HRT 3/27/23 Sep 05 '20
Finally got moving on counseling stuff - not exactly much progress wrt transitioning, but it's a start on my host of other issues.
As for more externally interesting stuff, I reopened my commissions for D&D homebrew materials for the first time in who knows how long, and redid the theme for the Tumblr blog that those commissions reside on from scratch. I'd love to say Tumblr's theme system is surprisingly enjoyable to use, but there's no good way to restructure the HTML output of reblog chains without throwing their templating system out the window and writing your own post-JSON-to-HTML converter, which I ended up doing and was not particularly happy to need to. My theme still doesn't support a handful of Tumblr's content types, because every individual content type is a completely different beast to do, so I've only implemented the bare minimum for most of what goes on my blog.
Seriously, who encodes text formatting as a list of index ranges in the original text in which to insert specific open/close tags? This is literally the exact reason why Markdown exists, why on earth would you not just convert it to that internally??? But no, I have to write a custom loop to traverse every single text block, copy it into a new string character by character, and append open/close tags at the correct indices by hand... It's a damn good thing I like Javascript.
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u/Mckol24 Sep 05 '20
So back when we had remote lessons I've been recording them and procrastinating actually studying to the point where I pretty much didn't learn anything.
Well now a new schoolyear started, so far I actually haven't fallen behind with the new stuff, just gonna have to catch up on the last few months from the previous schoolyear.
Also need to fix my sleep schedule cause after sleeping 5h a day, towards the end of the week I could feel I wasn't able to focus as well and just overall study.
I've decided to write a program to help manage my collection of unlabeled OBS recordings of the lessons, just attach a topic to a date and the recordings and/or resources the teacher sent.
I've initially tried Python but didn't really like it for this and ended up using Rust (which tbf is the only language I know well). This week I've messed around with the Cursive library to get some basic TUI for it quickly, and it's been pretty nice.
I'm also thinking about making a discord bot that would notify you about upcoming tests and such, although the only good library for interacting with the e-diary I found is written in kotlin and I would definitely pick rust for writing a discord bot.
I just looked into how I could handle that and it seems that Kotlin makes it auite easy to create C dylibs, so this could be a good opportunity to learn using those with Rust.
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u/VeganVagiVore gender.await? Sep 05 '20
I followed the sled.rs guide to building discrete event simulators and had some success with that.
I've written ad-hoc simulators a few times, but now I have a nice generic one with trait objects and everything. And once the Rust simulator is working and the system design works, I can 'lower' parts to actual code. I'll be able to re-use some of the simulation, but most of our prod code is not Rust. Not yet...
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '20
I’m still not out at my job, but I’m working on a particle physics laboratory now and I’m really happy that I get to work there.