Julia Evans 

@b0rk

programming and exclamation marks. she/her. zines at .

Montreal
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Joined June 2007
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    22 Jan 2019

    reminder: if you like the comics I post on twitter, they're collected into zines you can buy at ★ ★

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  2. May 22

    investigate bugs together

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  3. May 21

    let your bugs teach you

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  4. May 21

    are there any conferences for people who teach on the internet? (kind of like write the docs, but a bit more about learning than about documentation)

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  5. Retweeted
    May 20

    my 2020 tutorial session is now online: and contains, well, pretty much everything I know about phonetics, machine learning and meter/rhyme/sound symbolism in poetry. tutorial code and notebooks here:

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  6. May 20

    I also put up a bunch more samples of pages from my zines at

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  7. May 20

    bash tricks

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  8. May 20

    periodic reminder: if you like the comics I post on Twitter, you can get one by email every Saturday!

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    May 19
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    Follow-up: I don't always know The Main Point when I start (often, I start off wrong about what the Main Point is). Don't let this stop you from writing - write the thing, THEN when you're done, re-write that 1st paragraph to put the (now revealed) Main Point in the headline.

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  10. May 19

    how I write: highlight the main ideas

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  11. May 18

    several people pointed out that links are a great way to quickly point to definitions without taking up extra space

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  12. May 18

    how I write: always write for 1 person

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  13. May 18

    today I'm working on a table of contents for a potential zine on understanding your bugs

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  14. May 18

    every single time I write a zine it goes like this: 1. people seem really confused about <topic>, maybe that's a good subject! 2. i know <topic> super well, this will be easy! 3. OH NO there's REASON people are confused. this is hard to explain 4. <work + angst> 5. publish it

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  15. May 18

    spent a few hours on this yesterday, it's so nice

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    🌀⭐️ ⭐️🌀 A desktop pet & virtual ecosystem. Fill up your orb and watch life unfold
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  16. Retweeted
    May 16

    been learning german, made some notes to remember what balls/balloon type things are called

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  17. Retweeted
    May 15

    By popular demand, here's a quick take on MongoDB 4.2.6's transaction system. There are CHARTS, there are GRAPHS, okay it's mostly CHARTS OF GRAPHS but they're really cool anomalies and I hope you enjoy them.

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    May 14

    This is an amazing learning tool for any developer to get a sense of how fast various operations are. Something I think is increasingly lacking, with all the modern high-level abstractions Props to and for this

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  19. May 13

    I've never tried to do an online course before and it's interesting how doing a CS assignment on my own is different (and harder!) from doing it alongside friends I'm taking a class with

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  20. May 12

    this RNN shakespeare is great

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  21. May 12

    took the week off to learn some fun things. this morning I'm working through this assignment on RNNs:

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