Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko @gueorgui@merveilles.town

#introductions

Nice to meet you! My name is Gueorgui, and I'm a photographer, designer, and engineer living and working in London, UK after living in Russia, France, Germany, and Japan.

In my work life, I'm running a tiny creative studio called A Possible Space (https://a.possible.space) together with my wife.

I'm interested in the intersections of art, tech, society, and in working for an ethical, sustainable future.

#photography #tech #society #design #privacy #ethics

It seems like Tilix is the one to go with. Thanks everyone!

What terminal emulators are folks using with Gnome? The default Terminal app is ok, but the tabs are taking up humongous screen real estate. Is there something at least as functional and more compact?

#POODR Thursdays

This list of awesome things is all kinds of amazing: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

And after that I'm going to try to tackle the Design Patterns book by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vissides (the "Gang of 4"). Looks very dry and the code is all Java, but it's about time I got my OO design patterns figured out.

Before I get started on the Land of #Lisp book, I'm reading the #POODR book by Sandi Metz, and it's one of those rare programming books that's also a joy to read (it helps that she uses bicycle mechanics for examples!). https://www.poodr.com/

Here we are!

Maybe I'm #DoingItWrong, but whenver I write Javascript, the code I produce always seems brittle as fuck. Ruby, on the other hand...

It’s hard not to feel sympathy for the people of #Kurdistan and a bitter disgust at US foreign policy these days. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/13/the-kurds-a-bitter-history-of-betrayal

TIL that unicode emoji support was actually removed from Emacs on mac OS *on purpose* because... Linux doesn't support it as well?? http://ergoemacs.org/misc/emacs_macos_emoji.html

Oh dear lawd, what am I getting myself into #lisp

Finished Edward Snowden's book, and it made me even more wary of privacy issues. Considering setting up a Tor relay at home to help doing a tiny part of the work...

This is the ultimate coding soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/sets/blood-bros-series

I've put Qubes OS on my X230 as an experiment. The thing is *slow* (of course — it's basically a bunch of VMs), but the compartmentalisation really made me think about how I use my computers and how all my data is, so to speak, in the same basket. I don't think I need this level of security so I'll reinstall some mainstream Linux flavour at some point, but I'm enjoying the exploring and tinkering.

And in the meantime one of the world's most powerful countries, the UK, can't get it shit together about fucking Brexit, so much that climate change is not mentioned in the news at all 🤦‍♂️

Very impressed by Greta Thunberg's speech at the UN: http://webtv.un.org/live/watch/greta-thunberg-young-climate-activist-at-the-opening-of-the-climate-action-summit-2019/6088742229001/

Learned about something called Hexagonal Architecture today. Sounds like a solid approach to building software. https://culttt.com/2014/12/31/hexagonal-architecture/