Bart de Water

@bdewater.bsky.social

Dutch dude in Canada | software eng @ Thatch | Instant human, just add coffee

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

White Apple power adapter on a dark desk with its plug attachment removed, showing the two‑pin power inlet. A black figure‑8 power cord lies next to it, unplugged.White Apple power adapter on a dark desk with a black figure‑8 power cord plugged into its power inlet.

Bonjour Montréal 👋 We're coming to town this October 17! Who should speak at the conference? We’re looking for new voices. Maybe someone who dives into a deep part of a domain that Ruby helped solve, someone who has a story to tell that’ll make us think about our AI age, ...

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

Built something new this morning and am getting quizzed, right now, on what we did and why. Extremely cool that people like Hicks and Willison can independently build tools that give people control over their own learning process; I hope tech journalists are writing this up.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So two psychologists walk into the speculative agentic coding design space bar and......have a lot of ideas for developer learning! @mcmullarkey.bsky.social has written a new Skill that we've layered into Learning-Opportunities: Orient! 

 github.com/DrCatHicks/l...