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I asked ChatGPT to create visual aides for my tutorial to write a text editor in #rust. I can't really decide which to pick. #hecto #rustlang
Two more assignments before I finish off Chapter 4 for #hecto .
🏋️♂️ Some strength training to start the day - a phrase I wouldn't have uttered 10 years ago.
Yesterday I constructed my first complex emoji in rust. Did you know, that this emoji here:🧑🤝🧑 is composed of 🧑🤝🧑 under the hood?
Chapter 4 of hecto will be long. Very long. I decided to add a ton of extra stuff in there, from how utf8 works to building up your own emoji to a deep dive into buffers in various text editors. It's worth the wait!
ChatGPT hilft bei Wortspielen.
LLMs love Michael Ende more than I do: flenker.blog/michael-ende-when…
I'm more on the woke side of the spectrum, yet I find Copilot's desire to make the Borg look like an inclusive, diverse bunch a tad bit odd.
I'm using Gemini as a sparring partner for my work on hecto, just to see what it can do. The results range from impressive explanations to dumb rookie mistakes.
Wow, Mr & Mrs Smith on Amazon is really good. Not what I expected - but really good.
Love Beyoncé's new version of Jolene. I love the sound of the original, but the helpless plea to prevent a clueless husband from being u faithful has always rubbed me the wrong way.
Gemini changes my text and then tells me it did so because it adds to my own voice.
🚴 Biking again after a month of pause.
Pretty intense work week, but then again I am allowed to test state of the art AI for Zalando and I'm loving it.
Here's the story how my brother accidentally chemically burned my girlfriend (no lasting damage): flenker.blog/the-battle-of-the…
🤖 Got access to Gemini via my employer. It's insanely useful when authoring huge documents.
🎉 Birthday weekend for one of the girls. 6 years now! (Or 26 as she claims)
🎮 TIL: a game exists where you start on dune with the mission to destroy a Death Star with the enterprise. (flenker.blog/wustenplanet/)
The new version of the hecto tutorial will be much more in-depth about #rustlang . Given that in the meantime another tutorial was created which is basically the same but with way less in-depth description I think it's warranted.
if you want to get to the goal quick, use the other tutorial. If you want to stop and smell the roses, come with me.
🧠 Had a few epiphanies and TILs today around how pointers and memory management works. Most of the stuff I had half forgotten already.
🏃♂️ It still sucks not being able to go running or biking.
Chapter 2 has landed: Learn how to enter raw mode, what integers are, how typewriters worked and code some #rust!
flenker.blog/hecto-chapter-2/
#rustlang
I promised to post more quirky stuff, so here is a story about my dad trying to bury two cars in his garden:
flenker.blog/my-dad-buried-thi…
🚅 The first warm day of the year and I will spend it mostly on a train to Leipzig, for a family visit.
🌪️ [banging noises]
[the sound of something heavy sliding over the ground, then stopping]
ME (yelling): Everything alright?!
MY KIDS (in sweet innocent angle voices and in unison): Yes dad! Don't come up!
I better check upstairs.