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digitalWestie

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twitter: @digitalWestie web: https://www.rgianni.com
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digitalWestie··on Show HN: Forgot the Command? Stay in the Terminal
Not that this isn't great or anything, but this repo could almost be a single a file. E.g. this is what I have in `/usr/local/bin/howdoi`...

```

#!/bin/bash

query="$*"

prompt="Briefly, (in one line or two maximum) tell me: how do I $query"

echo $''

ollama run gemma3 --nowordwrap "$prompt"

```

digitalWestie··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Yes! I've always said twitter was better before images/multimedia!
digitalWestie··on Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?
Just wanted to give the little guy a hug
digitalWestie··on Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
huh, doesn't for me :/
digitalWestie··on The Falkirk Wheel
oh! and this is the first time I can remember someone discussing York Cafe on HN!
digitalWestie··on Show HN: Randomly discovered websites from the open internet every 60 minutes
Really enjoying this!
digitalWestie··on Why is D3 so Verbose?
This is the answer. People need to consider D3 more as a graphics/dom manipulation library than a charting library.
digitalWestie··on The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice
It's a few times over the years I've read about govs switching to linux like this. Anyone know how they got on?
digitalWestie··on Show HN: I built a way to live with a dumbphone
Love this! I've always wondered about approaches to something like this and ... This is pretty much what I imagined.
digitalWestie··on Norway's $1.7T Wealth Fund Reports $40B Tech-Driven Loss
... wat
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
'The difference (to me) is that the advanced discussions are less "how-to"s and more "here's stuff you probably never even thought about... avoid these pitfalls".'

great distinction here, thanks!

digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
No not negative at all. It's not the right fit for you. What would you go for out of interest?

Anyway your idea about collecting questions ahead of time is great. I would love to just react to the audience with questions and allow people to get on with things but not everyone will be self directed.

Having questions or topics of interest up front could help strike a balance though!

digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
This is interesting. For future I'm thinking I need to set up trading days that are as much self directed as instruction.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Yess! All these things. My goal is to make it hands on as possible. Numbers will be capped so I can get around everyone. If more people sign up I'll have an assistant.

When I've done this before it works well. The only snag is where people are at different levels and want to go different speeds. But this is where bonus exercises/stretch goals can set challenge for those racing ahead.

digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Thanks for your thorough answer!

What's been your favourite item that you've picked up at an event?

digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
That last point, combined with a few things others have said really has me thinking.

I'm not sure what it could be but some sort of physical element, setting or some 'toys' would be really interesting.

digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Ugh that's a bit frustrating. Indeed a little bit a prep could've gone a long way to making that a better experience.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Ok keep it simple before doing any zany stuff
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Oh I had no idea I'll check it out.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Ok so you'd be happy with it just being online. That's fair enough.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: What would attract you to attend a 1day course on a tech of your choice?
Quite understandable. Would 2 days be minimum?
digitalWestie··on Show HN: I rendered 17k+ maps in different styles and they're CC licensed
Some oversight on my part, it's been on my to-do list to link those in via the database.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: Why do my clients need graphs to believe the software works?
Say for example user activity on a project management type application. The activity being kanban boards modified, comments added etc.
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland
I'd suggest joining the Scottish tech club discord and posting there https://www.scottishtechnology.club/
digitalWestie··on The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
Does anyone know of comparable, up-to-date research?
digitalWestie··on Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit
That's fine, but the burbs are exactly that, the suburbs. You will find suburbs like you describe around any of the towns given here as examples.

You'll always have the suburb option. I think the question is more around the extent of 'automobile-centricity' we want.

digitalWestie··on Why use www?
This looks an appropriate use of my time.
digitalWestie··on Show HN: I made an HN for mobile health
Why niche it down to 'mobile' specifically?
digitalWestie··on Moving forward on improving HTTP's security
As a security novice could you expand?
digitalWestie··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Scotland, UK / Remote / Can travel

4 years experience

Full stack web-dev specialised in Ruby on Rails/jquery. Frequently use GitHub, Heroku, AWS, in projects. Love hacking physical things too with arduino / electric imp / raspberry pi.

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