Adam Chalmers
@adamchalmers
Texan (prev Australian). Father (prev gamer). Pynchon fan (prev illiterate). Building a new programming language for CAD at zoo.dev. Built a lot of Cloudflare Tunnel. I run a meetup austinsystems.org and love reading sci-fi, history and Jewish stuff.
Really beautiful painting "Sipping Tea under a Paulownia Tree" (commissioned by the Yongzheng Emperor). I'm no art expert but I really like its use of perspective.
My mum took this funny picture of me swaddling her (absolutely tiny) dog Poppy with my scarf, because she was shivering in the cold wind.
Yeah, it's a built-in, and it's really helpful. If you add your own custom shortcuts, they get populated in there too.
Tonight's dinner. Steak was dry brined in the morning, then cooked low and slow in oven (250F) then seared quickly. I tried a new mushroom recipe today and loved it, it's 10x better than my usual approach to mushrooms. Broccoli was baked in oven.
Nobody even uses a note-taking app anymore... everybody just DMs themselves in Slack, man...
Took my daughter to see some peacocks this morning. We watched this guy for ten minutes or so. She kept wanting to find "a daddy peacock." She said they were scary because they're big and loud. But that she still liked watching them.
Incredible, astonishing end to the series. Ada Palmer nailed it. Probably the best fiction I’ve read.
I took a Korean cooking class from my favorite Korean restaurant (Oseyo, in Austin TX). I've gotten to know the owner a bit after going there for many years, it was a lot of fun! We made ddukbokki two ways: - how Oseyo serves it - in a vodka sauce, with parmesan and cream Fun + sooooo tasty.
Every couple of months, Eleanor texts me a completely bizarre hypothetical and we analyze it at length like we're back in philosophy class.
insightful analysis from Paul Krugman on his substack today: Europe's GDP is in secular decline, not because of their sluggish tech sector or their generous social safety net but because of a niche political player's shocking return to power: Vlad Țepeș, better known in the West as "Dracula".
Factorio Space Age continues. I've nearly mastered Fulgora! We've got pink science, which means a new lab setup (previous setup could only handle 8 different science, but now I have 9). Plus, here's the Fulgora recycling setup that produces the parts for pink science.
Metric played 2 or 3 songs from Live It Out at their concert on Monday. I was so thrilled, this was my 4th time seeing them play live, and the only time they've ever played anything from Live It Out. Love hearing stuff from their back catalog.
I am a pretty decent programmer but I think my real strength as an employee is forcing people to come to agreement on what words mean and what we should do, drawing little dumb cartoons/flowcharts/diagrams to make sure everyone's on the same path. Like this.
I can't send Discord messages for 24 hours, but I can react to other people's messages. So by careful use of emojis I can still send messages.
Local Thai cafe is doing laksa now. This really is the first laksa I've found in Austin, and it's only a five minute walk from my house. I think they're using gluten free noodles but it's pretty good!
I swear to god. Why do these two crates specifically always change their version in Cargo.lock any time I do anything? We don't even build on Windows. Platform-specific Cargo resolver differences between Mac and Linux???
This new solver is powered by docs.rs/ezpz, the open-source constraint solver library we wrote! I presented on it at Rust Week in the Netherlands a few days ago. It's free and available now. I hope you enjoy using it. Let me know if you make something cool!
How would you fix this? Make the code copy-pasted instead of a macro? I have a few places in the KCL library that I do that :(