Josías Alvarado (@pointerish) 's Twitter Profile
Josías Alvarado

@pointerish

Software Engineer | Toolmaker on the side | Opinions are my own

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calendar_today17-11-2010 20:12:54

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Isn't it funny when successful entrepreneurs think all their opinions are brilliant just because of their financial success? It's hilarious.

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I think I will never get to the point where I can bring myself to purchase a font license. That might change, of course, but at the moment I don't see why I'd do that.

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Lispers: Lisp is the most beautiful language, so elegant that it wasn't so much created as discovered, as timeless as mathematics itself—which it of course is. Lisp: LOL my two most common functions are named after CPU instructions from a weird-ass chip that IBM made in the 50s.

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Working with team-player senior engineers is nice. You ask them something, they help you out, and a while later they check if you made progress and always offer more support if you happen to need it. It's kinda cool to be honest.

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I've decided to start making electric guitars. I'll start with kits and then I'll progress into building everything from scratch myself. My first attempts will surely suck, but it'll be awesome to have an instrument I made with my own hands.

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These are the first set of frets I remove. These were on an acoustic guitar and are so old and flat I had to dig them out of the fretboard using a cutter. Luckily the guitar is mine, otherwise someone would be really angry because of how that fretboard looks right now. 🫣

These are the first set of frets I remove. These were on an acoustic guitar and are so old and flat I had to dig them out of the fretboard using a cutter. Luckily the guitar is mine, otherwise someone would be really angry because of how that fretboard looks right now. 🫣
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CNC machines can build *perfect* electric guitars and yet some people pay a premium to have a handmade one built by a luthier. Maybe in the future people will pay a premium to have a human programmer write their software instead of an AI for the sake of “handmade code”.

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Encoding, hashing, encryption & obfuscation often causes confusion. Here's a simple explanation of all 4 of them: cybersecurityandgrowth.substack.com/p/understandin…