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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Get her a polaroid snap touch, or it’s recent reskin, the Kodak step touch. It is a printable camera that can print sticker photos of 2x3, but you can choose which photos to print instead of wasting photo paper. Seeing her photos on a physical medium would help her feel like she’s creating something tangible, and you can buy her an Instax photo album to hold her best 2x3 photos. Additionally, she can take photos of her friends and give them copies, so it could make her cool among her friends and give her more reason to take photos. It’s what I’m doing with my 9yo, and it seems to be starting to go well.









  • I recently needed to implement some batch processing logic in our code to account for some api level restrictions (the code already pulls from the api in pages and date ranges, but if I specify a date range too wide or a batch that would get too many records back, it gets rejected, so we need to break it down and run the date range in batches). I tell this junior developer what the issue is, and what we need to add to the existing class in our codebase. I follow up with him after a week, and this is what he sends me.

    Boilerplate code from chatgpt that has almost nothing to do with what we discussed. And how can you even give me a whole ‘working’ code without even testing it? He didn’t even clone our original repo and test it as is to understand why we need what we need. AI sure is making programmers dumb.



  • I’m sorry to hear that. Hope you find your motivation again. I grew up in a culture where no matter how many artistic talents you had, you grew up with an understanding that you were not to pursue that as a career. That was probably more our financial status that dictated that, but I used to be good at art and music in school, but now I’m a computer programming drone. At least I like programming, so that’s alright I guess. She’s still at a stage where she has a dozen ‘when I grow up’ careers, and she just today told me she realized she wants to be so many things, but she can only have one career. I told her she can have one career, but can have many hobbies, and she replied, ‘well, I can’t be a surgeon for a hobby though, can I’. There’s still a ways for her to go.