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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • I’m around the same age as you, and I taught myself front end development. Don’t let anyone say you can’t learn. If you want to make websites, I suggest HTML => CSS => JavaScript => React.js. I recommend learning on Scrimba.com. They have a screen cast system where an actual instructor tells you what to do in plain English with the corresponding code on screen. If you want to see how a change would affect the code, you can pause the cast and run the code yourself.

    And if you want to learn back end, a back end programmer suggested learning PHP. Still in high demand in the job market.









  • Might I suggest Walkaway by Cory Doctorow, my favorite book. The structure is like a Kim Stanley Robinson novel where there’s a group of characters but the real character is the birth of a post scarcity society, namely the one in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

    I loved it because it answered the problem I had with anarchism: what happens when a psychopath decides to take your shit? The answer is–in a post scarcity society–you walk away. You can always make new shit, better shit, grander shit.

    I don’t want to get into spoilers, but there was one thing that always was bugging me about this premise. Like, what if X situation happens? Wouldn’t you know it, X situation happens. He interrogates the premise to its logical conclusion.

    I would kill to see this novel made into a decent TV series.







  • It does amazingly well with schemas:

    When the dead rabbit was seen by the dog, it hopped. What does “it” refer to: the rabbit or the dog?

    In the sentence “When the dead rabbit was seen by the dog, it hopped,” the pronoun “it” refers to the dog, not the rabbit.

    This is because the rabbit is described as “dead,” meaning it cannot hop or move. The verb “hopped” implies movement, which can only logically apply to the living subject in the sentence, which is the dog.

    So the intended meaning is that when the dog saw the dead rabbit, the dog itself hopped, likely in surprise or reaction to seeing the dead animal.

    When the iceberg was struck by the ship, it sunk. What does “it” refer to: the iceberg or the ship?

    In the sentence “When the iceberg was struck by the ship, it sunk,” the pronoun “it” refers to the ship, not the iceberg.

    The reason is that icebergs, being large masses of ice floating in water, do not actually “sink” when struck. They are already floating and may crack or break apart when struck, but the word “sunk” implies something going down below the water’s surface.

    Ships, on the other hand, are vessels designed to float on water. If a ship strikes an iceberg with enough force, it can cause damage that leads to the ship taking on water and eventually sinking below the surface.

    So in this context, with the verb “sunk” being used, it is more logical that “it” is referring to the ship sinking after striking the iceberg, rather than describing what happened to the stationary iceberg itself.