Charlie Gallagher

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@neelesh_salian J ufyruuuuuuuuii

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the universal within the particular”

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@withoutboats It makes program flow hard to follow, even for debuggers. Code with a lot of GOTOs breaks easily, and is generally hard to make changes to. It’s not that great of a shortcut anyway—alternative code is usually pretty concise while being more readable. But K&R show a legitimate use

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@nixcraft With offsets, 0 comes first — but I think Andrew Koenig had a whole essay about this in C Traps and Pitfalls where he made a more general case for it’s benefits

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

(deep sigh) All six wildfires in the Pacific Cascade Region this weekend were caused by fireworks.

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

I might be terrifically biased but this is my favorite newsletter https://t.co/whTy5SLe5j

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@Mededitor @MerriamWebster I’ve also had this experience—I’ve only come across one copy of MW2 at a used bookstore, but probably a few dozen MW3s

[Peter Gorman @barelymaps]

Intersections of Milwaukee.

[Sam Gallagher @analog_sam]

Some common and not so common #hardware, #hacking, #bodge, and soldering tools: a thread, I guess🦾🤖

[terence @researchremora]

One more for the evening: a population density map of the Czech Republic, which was sitting in my drafts for a while. Am trying to be more organised about sharing; should have thought about it from the beginning. 😋

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

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[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@GergelyOrosz I think a PL can’t compare to the sheer volume of idiomatic things, and the level of sensitivity you need to be fluent—“we don’t say it like that” problems etc. But learning a few PLs has definitely given me the confidence that I will eventually get better, which matters!

[🥔🗺️ ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo_maps]

Exploring out how Greenland looks in ten different projections for #30DayMapChallenge Day 4 Green.

[Sam Gallagher @analog_sam]

https://t.co/JBGNItbKVt
New history of electricity video: Otto von Guericke's sulfur globe, the first electrostatic generator, from 1672. Includes explanation and reproduction of the original work, and some perspective. It is the product of 9 months of work, but you'd never know!

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@MilesMcBain So then the whole environment needs to be upgraded, which lessens some of the value. We’ve had better success combining {renv} with Docker, but we’re only able to do that because we have people who are familiar with that type of tech—plus that’s its own headache haha

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@MilesMcBain We use renv lock files at my workplace, but to restore the environment you sometimes need to install something from source, then it has some system dep that isn’t available (I think of old versions of arrow in particular)

[terence @researchremora]

A shaded relief map of the Czech Republic.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Subrahmanyam KVJ @SuB8u]

The @FT's 404 page still sets the benchmark😂

[Charlie Gallagher @CharlieGallaghr]

@W_R_Chase @erindataviz I really like this idea—but what’s the height of the bars? The heights don’t seem to align with the labels