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Hercules Lemke Merscher

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ABEND dump #12

Welcome to the ABEND dump, where I share interesting stuff I’ve been exposed to lately.

I’m missing my reading and writing habits. Winter is coming. Perhaps I will spend more time indoors and read/write more often, we’ll see. If I don’t, I blame Zelda and Civilization for making me spend more time lying on the sofa playing on Nintendo Switch 😆


The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education

“Working hard and struggling is actually an important way of learning. When you’re given an answer, you’re not struggling and you’re not learning.

Why Does Everyone Hate Haskell, Jazz, and Pure Math?

If everyone was stuck coding popular apps in the most popular languages, our mainstream programming languages would suck much more. Our apps would be buggier and a lot harder to make.

PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

Hacking in its pure way. It’s marvelous!

Learning low-level stuff pays off

Tweet from @Franc0Fernand0

Knowing low-level internals may not be a thing when you have a handful to hundreds of users. When you start dealing with large-scale systems, the rubber meets the road!

Every minute I spent learning low-level stuff paid off eventually. It might not be obvious initially, but it usually makes us better professionals in the medium to long term as we internalize the knowledge.

PromCon 2024

Last week (Sep 11 and 12) I had the chance to attend PromCon and it was here in Berlin again (lucky me :D). These were very insightful talks, as always.

Every year, the organizers run a quiz about Prometheus. What’s the probability of this distribution of the answers among 200 or so attendees? Funny XD

PromCon

If you thought of attending, maybe you should. See you next year? 🙂


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