(Also read: Part 1 - A self directing internship - and how I learn to code again) I asked myself: “Where do I want an internship, and how do I get it?”. I had almost completed my online foundational training program in Data Science and without thinking too much, I reached out to some people in my close network. I mentioned that I’m learning to code again and that I was open for an internship in an analytics team.
Läs mer »“I want to code again. I want to do hands-on analytics work in a data/dev team.” About 5 years ago, I started to talk like this with friends. At that point in life, a single parent with two kids and all, there wasn’t really any space to follow up on that idea. Though I more often was responsible for data analytics and BI products, and working closer together with analysts and data scientists.
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Let’s break out of an imaginary jail. Let’s hack Visual Studio Code in all ways it allows for being modified by extensions, but without leaving user space. User space as in “a user of VS Code”, to contrast with “a developer of VS Code extensions”. The imaginary jail being that I thought some extensibility cases are closed to Joyride and need an extension to be implemented. It is not so!
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Viktor E. Frankl says: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Empathy @ Work workshop is focused on exploring what happens in that space and to learn to regain the consciousness of the choice we always have. The space is where we can explore what is truly true, what is happening within me - learning to connect to self and to listen to oneself to understand what is important to us and what drives us forward.
Läs mer »As far as productivity boosts go, ChatGPT (which calls itself Assistant), represents the biggest leap in a long time. Especially if our work involves writing. Correctly used, that is. Incorrectly used, ChatGPT can produce pure garbage, although it might look very similar to the valuable help we could have gotten if we had wielded this new tool rightly. Whether it boosts our productivity, by quickly helping us fill in the blanks, or wastes our time with garbage we need to identify and clean up, it will do so using the same engine.
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I blurted out ”How are you?” at the start of a session with ChatGPT and it turned into a conversation where I really tried to get the AI to answer this question. It gets appearant that ChatGPT is a good writer, even if it can get stuck and repeat things a bit too often. That the chatbot ”remembers” the conversation and can use it for its answers is very powerful and reveals to me some about how useful this technology is and can become.
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Don’t you ever become a programmer, this is the final warning. Don’t become a nerd that more than 40 years later, thinks it is “fun”. Makes people wonder, if you see what I mean.
Läs mer »“Agile workplace” is a red flag to me. I immediately start to worry if it implies that I am expected to participate in a lot of meetings and rituals, even though I might be on pins and needles to get some bug fixed, or to tweak this or that feature. Is it just me? Actually, I like the idea of making it easy and cheap to adjust and to correct directions.
Läs mer »Imagine that you have discovered that you enjoy the vegetarian diet. Your body responds well, you feel more vital and digestion is a clockwork. You run into a friend and tell them about the fantastic results you have achieved by eating vegetarian food. Your friend becomes convinced and decides to visit a vegetarian restaurant. Later, when you meet again, your friend is remarkably upset and complains about how awful the vegetarian diet is.
Läs mer »This How to use shadow-cljs with Calva in a fullstack project guide will not take the short path of presenting some steps and then ”BOOM there it is!” Instead we are going to look at the pieces involved and how they are composed to create Calva’s connection with the ClojureScript app being developed. The point with this is to give you the knowledge to get yourself past obstacles that a short 1-2-3 step guide might land you in.
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