Coding feels social to me in a weird way because so much time is spent reading other people’s words. Not just the guides and tutorials but also the code itself.
Programs are little notes we write to each other that just so happen to also compile. The human reader comes first, the machine reader is secondary. When you write a variable name, you’re telling me how you define words. When you write a function, you’re telling me how you solve problems.
I love learning how other people think through reading their code. It can be funny or horrifying or beautiful or deeply moving. Maybe they call it a software library because it holds our stories.
27.03.2024 // first meeting with my advisory committee, getting some focussed reading done, attending a completion seminar, and preparing a paper for a workshop.
[no playlist today; I didn't want my brain to wander off into dreamlands]
12.03.24 | my new headphones arrived today! I’m so happy I have a headphone that works again, I’m gonna use tomorrow ate my gym to see if it works well, can’t wait
had a wonderful morning breakfast date with my beau, who’s always happily indulgent of my small things wants. we talked and i wrote my morning journal, and then left at half past 9am. now i’m back at home, doing all of my laundry because i will not be able to do so in the next week because i’ll be on chronic PM duty (6pm-6am) + daily overtime for conferences so i’ll be on survival mode 🌷
friday was my last day of classes, so now i'm spending the weekend studying as hard as i can for my finals on monday! there's a lot of information to cover but i'm feeling pretty decent about both exams.