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Kimberlee — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:52:19 +0000

If you are curious about parsers, code modularization, and how mathematicians make apps, please check out my favorite website, pointfree.co and let me know if it seems good to you.

It's Okay To Be A Fan Of A Programming Language

Kimberlee — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:39:30 +0000

It's okay to let your guard down and just read through that GitHub. I don't know, take some notes, even. You can't understand the header files but you understand the desire. You know why you like the repository and you're enjoying it. Tomorrow morning you might wake up and have forgotten how it all glued together. So what? All of that will add up to you understanding a part of tech that is obscure but valuable.

Swift Result for API wrangling

Kimberlee — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:18:34 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIb3CQH8_jg

Core Data

Kimberlee — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:49:20 +0000

https://tanaschita.com/20210320-using-core-data-with-swiftui/

Snapshot Testing in Swift

Kimberlee — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:26:15 +0000

https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep41-a-tour-of-snapshot-testing

If you were in I.T.

Kimberlee — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:46:25 +0000

Shoutout to former I.T. people who can never, ever get away from it. If code is as confusing to you as it is to me, that is because you probably spent a lot of time modding The Sims or Counter Strike to add items. That was too good for buffing your file system knowledge and appalling for the code. Both should be combined but I know why pedagogically why they might do that ($$$).

In the Spanish language, computer science and IT are called información. But due to my accent people think I'm being sarcastic when I say that's what I do. I don't say inteligencia because that sounds like a better hit squad than I am qualified for.

What am I actually doing while on computers? Drinking some preworkout and perfecting an interface for using Apple's frameworks more-easily in my apps. I will show a screenshot for the sake of learning in public but that is also something I am working on. Making an app involves so much graphic design. I personally feel like pixel-testing is graphic design gone too far. Yet, as a coder, I love that type of thing... let's just say I tried graphics and decided I.T. would be more fitting.

Caption: This was a big deal at the time.

I got on here because I bought a UPS for the first time. I never needed uninterrupted computing because I use a huge laptop and don't care but I am afraid of my house frying something and I always wanted my own giant battery.

Go to swift.org

Kimberlee — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:12:52 +0000

Or, your favorite programming language's discussion forums and search for the most popular questions asked. I notice these people took the time to be concise yet explicit by linking to code but explaining in pseudo code and/or a diagram on their post.

Research is favored.

memotoself

Programming Therapy

Kimberlee — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:19:01 +0000

Sorry, internet. I say sorry a lot. I grew up adjacent to Canada via boat or Moose.

Is the author actually sorry? She is not so sure.

That said, I have to unload some of my programming baggage on you, The Internet Reader. There are many things I am working on at once and journaling privately about them isn't helping. I can figure out why I get distracted and excited easily. I can balance my diet and exercise and social time like a good, perfunctory little rat. But how will I ever sort this shit out?

We, The Internet, have diagnosed perfectionism. But that's not a full-on mental health problem. The treatment is taking cold showers, so to speak. Looking right at my comfortable water temp and bravely cranking it to the floor.

I am 90% ready for my TensorFlow certificate test (that doesn't mean I'd get a 90%. It is pass/fail. Fail? I can't knock that, really, as I have gotten a C in a class and the teacher bumped my grade up to an A on the last day. Some curve. An anonymous internet test requires a different side of my personality to prepare for. Does it demonstrate job readiness? I don't think because I took the TensorFlow certificate that I know anything about ML.

So it is not just perfectionism, is it? It is an unbelievably pointless sense of humility in such an abstract way, it literally doesn't correlate to reality. First off, Me, you can't just have humility. You have to be cocky. It is how one protects oneself from bad guys. I wouldn't go through a dark parking lot at night whimpering and moping before I slowly unlock my car. In a whine, I say to the dark bushes about three meters from my car, "Why won't anyone come along right now and guess what actions I would think are appropriate?"

No! I stand tall and project my sharpened survival instincts. Duh. And as far as I can ever remember, nothing creepy has even happened to me in a parking lot.

I am trying to say I need to go take the test and fail it. $100 well spent and if I pass, even better. There are practice tests for other exams but I really do want this cert and I mean it.

I went and started the fast.ai course before I took the TF test.

Why, woman human, why do you do this to yourself?

Well, inner voice, I got to lesson 4 of fast.ai's Deep Learning for Coders and the book came in the mail that day. What a book it is. And on the videos, Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas show the most in-depth reasoning of Gradient Descent I have ever seen. How these things are derived is important and if I didn't feel ready, I wasn't ready.

Taking two or more MOOCs on the same subject just might be the way it is in this unholy year.

I keep learning Swift. Even when it isn't going well and all my stuff is all bugs and I am too afraid to show it off, I can write about it on dev.to.

I am writing other content now so I really appreciate this outlet and thanks for reading if you read this far. As a human woman in tech, I feel like my personal phenotypical presentation is important to draw attention to but I would hope you'd read even if I were a being from an unseen constellation.

Swift Concurrency

Kimberlee — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:01:01 +0000

I learned JavaScript because that is The Way. I never used it except for node.js networking. I think other people do front end better than me.

Or, I thought. Then I picked up Swift last year. I actually feel like I have been doing this forever but my portfolio and calender would tell you differently. So it is funny when I have only done a bunch of tutorials on concurrency and have made some seriously flawed apps with Apple's foundation.

So, independent concurrency (async/await) in Swift will make the language I have been learning adopt my only other experience with programming on my own.

Although, tomorrow, I start a React.js study group!

Please come back sometime for self driving car posts. That is one of my distractions from Swift. But... maybe someday I will implement my own self driving car in Swift. I am that big of an Apple fan human.

Oh geez

Kimberlee — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:02:58 +0000

I should write a post but I am learning databases. What is there to say!

Happy to Newb

Kimberlee — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:08:05 +0000

The first family you played in The Sims had the last name Newbie. It took me awhile to realize that meant they were a practice family. I took their life so seriously. The one bedroom apartment Bob and Linda (?) shared was the first time I had ever played a PC game for hours on end. That lead me to wondering how computers worked and I even made mods for some websites full of Sims' furniture.

I never thought back then that I would learn computer graphics so now that I am making the command queues myself, I am proud to be a newbie.

Online coding classes

Kimberlee — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:03:10 +0000

Forever a beginner... except in Java. For all else, I am often on Ray Wenderlich or Coursera. I have begun this thing where I take a class on the same exact subject but on two different platforms. I think it covers more and gives me a better sense of what is going on with online learning. To compare classes somehow. They might not compare but some are better code than others.

I am a one-screen laptop person and I still haven't found a solution better than a book. This isn't practical with Swift and SwiftUI, though. Tomorrow my friend who is learning Javascript is coming over and we might try on the TV. I have enjoyed more theoretical subjects on the TV so much more than my phone or laptop but code cannot go out of focus or away any one second faster than I need it! What about hololens? I don't have the money to spend on those just to find out I despise them but I do hope very lightweight VR headsets come out someday and I can wear those while I code.

There will always be the garden without screens or speakers.