#stellies — Public Fediverse posts

- Found my day surprisingly meeting- and deadline-free. Spent a good bit of time clearing the backlog of some non-urgent tasks that were always kicked down the road. Mostly just quiet weeding of long-overdue stuff.
- #AoC2023 was a bit simpler; both parts could be solved with some algebra and without heavy computation.
- When learning #Rustlang one initially struggles with the borrow checker. The wrestle can sometimes feel Jacobean but is a fundamental part of writing memory-safe code. The iteration happens on compile, and the #Rust compiler can be wonderfully helpful – probably the friendliest one I've met (especially with Clippy!). With #OCaml your mentor is the type checker, but this is a friendlier game of ping-pong happening right in the editor, and feedback is instant. The OCaml LSP is just excellent, and with some optional type annotations it really becomes your pair programmer. Once you test, everything more often than not just works. When it doesn't, you're looking for logic errors in the code rather than anything related to syntax or type.
- Attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a new academic building at #Stellies Engineering. These events are always good networking. I love catching up with my former colleagues' gossip about academic politics. No soap opera or Netlfix B-drama can compare.
- Productive evening time sorting out necessary things rather than attending to some or other fire. If I have any resolution for the next year, it would be to assert more of this kind of sente over every day.

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