StealthyCoder

I love watching this movie. It is in one on my list of movies that I can repeat watch endlessly. I recently figured out why that is. After watching it for the n-th time I suddenly realized something.

I recently watched Mrs. Doubtfire again. I wanted to watch Swan Princess but that turned out to be a Sony Pictures animation rather than a Disney one, so it was not on Disney+. I will hardly name any spoilers here, rather something I came to realize as the end of the movie was coming near.

Already for a long time the sentiment and opinion on so called “rockstar engineers” or “10x engineers” is that they are mythological and don't exist. Even those self proclaiming ones are wrong. They are not who they say they are, they are just fronting. I think the reasoning that brings forth saying it is a myth is dangerous to our field and society in general.

I increasingly find myself not watching or reading some piece of content solely due to how the title is phrased. It mostly comes down to some line of either: “You would not believe this..” , “SHOCKED”, or just plain “x things you DO NOT KNOW”. I fail to understand why this form of clickbait is being used and why we let it get so far?

What if I told you there was not just one type of decorator in Python, but two! First things first, what is a decorator? Then what two types are there? Without further ado, let us dive into the world of decorators.

I recently installed EndeavourOS and it worked wonderful for roughly 5 months. Then it got me into a situation where there was no way forward nor backward.

I got tasked with writing some new tests in our test framework. It utilizes Locust, a framework written in Python, that helps to make it easier to program HTTP test suites. I had a whirlwind of an experience of getting the simple feature in which was quite fun.

I went to the carnival fair, not sure what the English word is, but the one with the Ferris wheel, throwing balls at cans and such. I love going there, ever since I was a child, and I realised something today.

I suddenly was thinking about a simple sensor on something like a Raspberry Pi Zero or similar that would react to the environmental sounds within a dance club or restaurant and output something on either a display or maybe a musical playlist and that would hopefully in turn provide new input as people are reacting to that and so help create a new unique experience for the people going to that particular event/venue. Also for people going back multiple times, each time it would be somehow unique.

It lead me to think of more applications of making technology work to unify us rather than divide/segregate/disconnect us.

It has a oxymoronic feel to it, the title, yet it seemingly is so that relative and absolute complexity downstream makes for a simpler upstream. Examples for this are Kubernetes and Docker, C and Python, and infrastructure surrounding HTTP servers and application servers.