mkingston

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Comment · 1 month ago

  Location: London, UK
  Remote: preferred (have been remote for 7 years)
  Willing to relocate: Perhaps for the right opportunity - Canada/EU
  Technologies: Golang, TS/JS/Node, Kubernetes, GCP, GH Actions, SQL, NoSQL, React
  Résumé/CV: https://matt-kingston.pages.dev/
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Senior IC, recently service architectures, Go/TS, with ~10y development experience from embedded C to web frontend. Also a little tech team leadership. I identify problems and solve them, anywhere in the software lifecycle, including people process. I write to clarify my thoughts and share with relevant stakeholders. I believe in good documentation and have been known for it. Seeking backend/platform/devex but open to interesting proposals.

Comment · 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg

Jeff Geerling. Also the owner/author of the site we're discussing in this thread.

Comment · 1 year ago

You can review a PR commit by commit. But it's not obvious how in the UI. Navigate to the commits tab on the PR page and you can navigate through the commits in the PR and review them one by one. Although it's possible this isn't what you mean.

Comment · 1 year ago

I was reading the git-bug documentation and found "bridges" to third-party platforms:

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/master/doc/usage/thi...

I have not tried it.

Comment · 1 year ago

Don't be disappointed. That's cool! You've independently discovered something.

Comment · 2 years ago

There's a cross-platform trash/recycling library you might be interested in: https://github.com/Byron/trash-rs

Comment · 2 years ago

That's a brief statement which makes me think I'm missing something obvious, but it doesn't seem obvious to me. Would you please expand on that?

Comment · 3 years ago

I mount the board on some nylon standoffs through a takeaway box lid. The rest of the takeaway box is the enclosure. I drill some holes through the takeaway box for wire ingress and egress.

I use a tupperware container if I'm feeling fancy.

Comment · 3 years ago

> native speakers are excellent at understanding accents when compared to other nations where non-standard accents are not as common

Interesting to read this; I had developed exactly the same hypothesis about French speakers: that they're less accustomed to a variety of accents (with the obvious caveat that it's even more risky to generalise from an anecdote than from data!).

Comment · 3 years ago

I need this for practice. Perhaps I ought to use text-to-speech and then transcribe the audio back to text and compare.

Comment · 3 years ago

> did you ever internalize the importance of the verbs "to be/is/am/are/been/were" and "to have/has/had" growing up as a native English speaker?

Definitely not to the extent that I'm having to for French! At the moment I don't have a lot of spare time to think (eek) and reflect on this, but regarding those verbs, French definitely has some different usage of them when compared to English including sometimes using "have" where we'd use "be", and vice versa, which is a little jarring at first.

Comment · 3 years ago

You and I know that, but it's not important or useful to a non-French speaker learning English. To those people, those are merely English words. And indeed, they are English, even if they're French imports. I think even a lot of English speakers don't realise the depth of this: "cul de sac" is a fun example that a lot of people I ask don't realise comes from French (or another language, for that matter).

Comment · 3 years ago

As someone who is currently learning French and (amateur) teaching English I agree in general with your take on English. The frequency with which I say "yes, it doesn't really make sense to pronounce it that way" is high. English is full of crazy inconsistencies and I feel lucky to have learned it as a native speaker. Here's a nice illustration/example of what you've written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

I really appreciate that French is much more consistent with pronunciation but it's very challenging in some other ways. There are numerous conjugations that sound the same but are spelled differently, meaning you have to infer from context where possible. This is quite challenging as a learner.

Il / elle parle ("he/she speaks")

Ils / elles parlent ("they speak")

Both of the above are pronounced exactly the same. It's not such a problem when reading, but when listening and especially when transcribing this is quite challenging. Also, I haven't taken any time to think about it but so far I have the impression that there are far more conjugations of a given verb in French than in English. I've questioned a little lately whether conjugation gives more than it takes. Context, with the occasional "clue" word, seems like a pretty adequate mechanism. In English for example, we don't differentiate between you (singular) and you (plural). But when it's not clear from context we'll say e.g. "you all". This seems to me easier and more sensible (and I'm correspondingly enamoured with the French gerondif), but I do wonder if it's tricky when coming from languages where there would be a difference between the singular and plural.

Which is all to say: I'm very sympathetic to, and I agree with your reservations about English. And I'm also glad that French isn't the language in its place.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've spent quite some time in France over the past few years and variously dealt with websites of French organisations during this time. I'm not sure what it is, but French websites seem typically to be frustratingly semi-functional. This story is completely unsurprising to me.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Upon further inspection, it looks like it's `lines`. It might also be `filter` but I haven't quickly come up with a way to determine whether that's the case. I opened an issue:

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8016

I couldn't apply labels myself, I don't think.