It is cold and I am hiding inside, today clearly things yesterday was far too warm. Morning temperature was -5, which is nothing compared to the arctic, but cold for somewhere people live. If I set up temperature sensors I could make some plots, but that seems like a lot of hassle.
It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .
Reading: Cibola Burn
This article on the use of bots on github made me think of a different use of the github api .
The first pieces of python code I pushed to github on my own account were in my tiny-artnet mircopython artnet implementation. Soon after committing that code I started getting emails from recruiters looking to hire python developers. They would say something along the lines 'based on your github activity we think you would be perfect for a job doing django".
At first these were hilarious, micropython is nothing like python, if they had looked at my github profile they would have seen the large C projects I work on.
But after a few of these I started to get annoyed, clearly these people were finding my email from code I had written or from commit logs. Why weren't they trying a little bit harder? To me, github is the technical recruiters wet dream, but whoever was generating the leads here clearly wasn't doing a good job.
I don't think cold lead generation is a good way to sell anything, let alone a job opportunity, but this is how I would use github(bitbucket, gitlab and everything else too) to do it.
The human at the end needs to be able to do a final set of filters, but anywhere that is too high a cost isn't going to use the lead well anyway. I am sure the 100 line script that could be written on those lines that would generate substantially better leads than cold contacting any email address.
Reading: Reamde
Winter is here, stepping out this morning it was -2, hopefully the start of some nice seasonal weather with a showering of snow and not the minimum temperature for the year.
The twitters tell me that Bunnie Huang of Hacking the Xbox , Breaking SD Cards , The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen and a ton of other cool things has a new book in the works . I read Hacking the Xbox when it was released for Free after Aaron Swartz's death, the book is an excellent read and gave me a ton of insights about electronics and breaking physical things. The new book is in early access, which means you can read it if you think reading tiny bits of a book is a good idea.
While on the nostarch I looked at another early access book, Attaching Network Protocols . The cover, looking a Tardigrade at a glance(it isn't), drew me in, the awesome title didn't hurt.
Hopefully the internet will come alive and tell me when these two books are finished and available.
Reading: Reamde
Of course that snowy picture was taken up a mountain, but it was only about 4 degrees up there. Warmer than it seems it is going to get to today.
Reading: Reamde
Last night at the hacker space I finally got around to building hardware out for my emfcamp badge powered satellite tracker . Most of the time was spent hot gluing together foam board to make a stand for the servos I integrated the control code with the TCP server and the whole thing is controllable from gpredict now.
When testing servos, knifes are the recommended indicator devices.
Reading: Reamde