Robert Burke

I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.

welcome, new bluesky users 🫡 bsky.app/download

@A_dmg04 Xurs using it.

Yo where is the xurfboard

my mom (who's a university professor) did something interesting last year: she assigned her students to give chatgpt an essay question, have it write a paper, and then proofread/fact check it. nearly every single student in that class came out of that assignment anti-chatgpt.

Possible G4 magnetic storm arriving Thursday. Chance for Western Washington to see the aurora Thursday evening/early Friday morning. Looks like the weather will cooperate with mostly clear skies. #wawx

@G0ffThew You've never steered me wrong. Dead Dead Demons... Took me longer to warm up to it, but now I'm looking forward to seeing where they take it!

Protip: if you’re having trouble waiting for the next episode of Dandadan go binge Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction in the meanwhile

@HollyConrad This photo is rad!

The ladies don’t enjoy Fall as much as I do

#GopherConSG will be postponed to 22-24 January 2025, so we can have more time to plan and put together a great conference for everyone. Because of this, we're extending our #CFP for a few more days, in case you might have some #golang ideas to share! 💥 papercall.io/gopherconsg-20…

@captainnobody1 no comment 🤐

First line of the new go.dev blog post "Go was designed for programming at scale. Programming at scale means dealing with large amounts of data," so why isn't #golang a top data engineering language?

We have the worst traffic on the 401 and no one just thought, “how about we put a rail line here?”

@the_transit_guy *shouts to the void* build high speed rail instead

My life got a bit better WRT video games when I started simply adding games to my Steam wishlist instead of buying them for the backlog. Now, if only I had time to play more...

@GillianFoxglove Actual surprise!

@kelseyhightower Honestly I just don't split the two. That's like saying "before you type, you must know what letters to press, you don't just type" or "before you read, you must find something to read, you don't just read". Understanding what to code is part of coding.

Thanks everyone for sending along photos so far! There is also a full moon tonight, so the best potential to see the northern lights will be away from city lights, and through camera & phone photos. Also dependent on how long geomagnetic storm conditions continue.

“Share your feedback about developing with Go” by Alice Merrick — go.dev/blog/survey202… #golang

This was so fascinating. I had a teflon knitting needle on @ISS and charged it by rubbing with my Russian fur boots. Then I directed water droplets from a syringe towards the charged knitting needle and this is the resulting dynamics. The droplets, due to charge forces, go into a crazy orbit around the knitting needle. If planets were cylindrical this would be the orbit of its moons due to gravity. Canon G1 video camera, Expedition 30, 2012.