What worked for me is learning some better letterforms from some free images from the Write Now book (by Getty-Dubay) on italic cursive. It’s a different kind of cursive from the awkward one I was taught in school, and it’s a lot easier to write and read.

I think the biggest improvement in my handwriting was just finding letterforms in that book that are both easy to write but that are also more clearly distinguishable when you write quickly. For example, just putting a little curl at the bottom of my lowercase T’s, I’s, and L’s made them a lot more aesthetically pleasing but also more clearly distinct from other letters.

Once you find some letterforms like that, it just takes a little practice to rewrite your muscle memory.

There are a bunch of message broker services out there, and having a consistent set of common keys along with a documented process for transforming events to/from different systems means that this kind of data can move through different systems without getting mangled. It does have a spec for JSON, so it can be considered just a standardized JSON blob with transformation rules. But it also has a protobuf spec, specs for MQTT, NATS, HTTP, Avro, etc. It’s a common language for all these systems.

I’m really into CloudEvents because I love event-driven systems, and since events can come from, or be consumed by, so many different services, having a robust spec is super duper useful.

Why is nobody talking about the mouthfeel?

I loved it, it was a fantastic finale. Different from the manga, but I think it worked so well in anime form.

I was watching Apothecary Diaries alongside Frieren so I gotta recommend that one.

I do like that Frieren thoroughly justified violence against demons, and then thoroughly demonstrated violence against demons.

At least you’re using Duke’s, clear evidence you’re still sane.

Nice! I’m pretty interested, the exercise anime actually did inspire me to start working out so maybe this will inspire me to eat better too.

I don’t know if I’m going to love it or hate it but if it’s anything like How Heavy Are the Dumbbells That You Lift then it’s going to inspire me to keep working out.

This is the nature of the world, here. When I see the world, the politics, the future, the satellites in space, and the people that put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat.

Then they put on the socks and become girls

Fair

I’ll bring some of that Giggleswick ganja

Only if we go to Fattiehead first

Meet me in Wide Open

It’s me, Loose Bottom

It’s kind of amazing how relevant this still is, 28 years later.

I’ve been so excited for the rest of the season after reading the manga, and so far it hasn’t disappointed me one bit.

Learning new programming languages is an awesome way to expand your programming brain. If you want to stay in the same scientific computation niche, you can check out Julia or Mathematica. If you’re just looking to broaden your horizons, the world is your oyster. For me, learning Clojure really cooked my noodle but made me a much better programmer since it taught me functional programming.

Also, just read other peoples code! You can learn the conventions that way. Though for you it would best to find other products within your niche, because I’m not sure if general web dev code would be super helpful.

There are techniques that are broader than any single language’s conventions, and I think learning those are how you can improve. That’s hard to teach, though, and it comes from experience with a few different languages, in my opinion.

And honestly, I can totally respect the “conventions be damned” attitude, because at the end of the day, you’re trying to make something that works, and if nobody else is reading that code, you’ve made the right trade-off.