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Published 1 December 2022
in miscellaneous
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general
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programming
If you're a programmer, you're probably very familiar with the famous "Hello World" program. This simple program, which typically prints the words "Hello World" to the screen, is often used as the first program that beginners write when learning a new programming language.
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Published 12 November 2022
in electronics
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programming
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hardware
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electronics
I have a six year old (let's call him v2.0). His brain never stops, and my work as an engineer (primarily software) seems to be of great interest to him. He asks lots of questions, but also knows during incidents that I need to focus. After a particularly difficult incident a few months ago, he congratulated me on fixing the "glitch" and called me a "glitch hunter".
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Published 7 October 2022
in archive
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beginners
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programming
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hacktoberfest
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codenewbie
I've been reading and writing code since the year 2000. Before we had Stack Overflow and Codeacademy, we had two real resources for learning: giant dusty tomes filled with scraps of paper, and websites like PlanetSourceCode where you could download zips of entire projects.
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Published 14 August 2020
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actionshackathon
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slack
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github
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actions
When I first started working with GitHub about a month ago, there were already quite a few Slack notification actions available, but I found each to either be cumbersome to use, or lacking what seemed like simple features such as status based messages.
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Published 27 March 2020
in archive
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career
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life
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leadership
So with the ongoing global crisis, a lot of governments and organisations are recommending that people, if they can, work from home. We're seeing memes flying around, new jokes being created, and also quite a few questions from people who haven't really worked remotely before.
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