RC Day 33 - Shindig

A very social day. Tomorrow, my introvert self will mostly write code.

• Paired on understanding the comma operator. I had never encountered it used in a map, because “use strict” forbids defining variables without a let or const, and you can’t do that in a comma operator.
• Attended caffeine consumption club. No rust driving today.
• Another recurser demoed their static site generator in Deno to me. I’ve used Deno a little for Advent of Code type things (and my RC application!), but seeing all the filesystem and markdown parsing batteries that are included was cool. Very little code for what it did. Also the first time I saw handlebars (the templating system) in action.
• I’m enjoying short, focussed pairing at the moment.
• Encountered Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS from the CSS Working Group. I always appreciate humility.
• Show and tell. I showed a low angle jack plane.
• Started the Shader Shindig group. I’d like to work through The Book of Shaders while I’m here. This time, we ended up mostly talking through the Thue-Morse sequence.
• Non-programming talks! We heard about how bogus the Gregorian calendar is and how much better the Ornellember calendar is. Also, how much fun magnet fishing is.

I’m tired, time to check out 🥱