Dave Hemprich-Bennett

The UK is going to be slightly less shit for a group of new parents than it was till now (while still being pretty shit to all new parents compared to its neighbours)

£388 is insulting low instead of two weeks wages WHEN YOU HAVE A NEE BABY AND THEY BASICALLY EAT MONEY. But I’ll concede that it’s clearly better than literally nothing

Feature request for all music-app-devs: a toggle on the app's Home Screen that temporarily swaps all the user's sweary library for clean versions, filtering out any entries where a clean version isn't available. Yours, a guy with fairly grimy music tastes and a toddler who seems to be part-parrot

There’s something special about how sending a new piece of writing you’re really proud of to someone else for feedback lets you instantly see how no, it was actually terrible all along and basically needs to be rewritten

it’s The Process

There’s something special about how sending a new piece of writing you’re really proud of to someone else for feedback lets you instantly see how no, it was actually terrible all along and basically needs to be rewritten

Very specific-thirtysomething-academic-coder-blues: helping a PhD student with a topic that you also struggled with at their level, so digging out all the resources that you were smart enough to bookmark at the time! …but they’re mostly lost to link-rot

All of this is intended by design to keep things as cartoonishly simple and intelligible as possible, A) because you want other people to easily understand your code and workflow B) future-you is basically another person and both sets of people, with all the love in the world, are idiots.

Very specific-thirtysomething-academic-coder-blues: helping a PhD student with a topic that you also struggled with at their level, so digging out all the resources that you were smart enough to bookmark at the time! …but they’re mostly lost to link-rot

Oh, and for any raw data files that are huge and so live in an external drive for local jobs or a data partition on a remote, I'll typically have my raw_data area organised similarly, then use a symlink between the project's raw data directory and the real raw data directory, or

Very specific-thirtysomething-academic-coder-blues: helping a PhD student with a topic that you also struggled with at their level, so digging out all the resources that you were smart enough to bookmark at the time! …but they’re mostly lost to link-rot

Processed data should always be a product of the raw data being manipulated by the code in the code subdirectory, so re-generating it is simple and it’s nicely reproducible

Very specific-thirtysomething-academic-coder-blues: helping a PhD student with a topic that you also struggled with at their level, so digging out all the resources that you were smart enough to bookmark at the time! …but they’re mostly lost to link-rot

Sad shoutout to this tweet that I used to share with every PhD student whose code and data were a mess, but is unfortunately in the bad place

Very specific-thirtysomething-academic-coder-blues: helping a PhD student with a topic that you also struggled with at their level, so digging out all the resources that you were smart enough to bookmark at the time! …but they’re mostly lost to link-rot

There’s a certain irony to seeing this shortly after my wife and I resolved to make more of an effort to speak German at home, so our dual-nationality kids grow up able to communicate better with their loved ones, and eventually live in whichever home country they choose

Hopefully if the house contains three fluent German speakers speaking conversationally with one another (and me) I'll improve in time eh.

There’s a certain irony to seeing this shortly after my wife and I resolved to make more of an effort to speak German at home, so our dual-nationality kids grow up able to communicate better with their loved ones, and eventually live in whichever home country they choose

Just had to drag my toddler from the playpark early as a nearby house has joined the village’s ‘6 months of unnecessary-but-cosy wood burning’ tradition and it was making my asthma majorly flare up. Looks like till the spring when I take her to the park I’ll be wearing a facemask. I hate this.

Air pollution is bad for everyone (especially kids). Its impacts are just most immediately noticeable in people with lung conditions etc

Just had to drag my toddler from the playpark early as a nearby house has joined the village’s ‘6 months of unnecessary-but-cosy wood burning’ tradition and it was making my asthma majorly flare up. Looks like till the spring when I take her to the park I’ll be wearing a facemask. I hate this.

A minority of houses in the UK legitimately need wood burners for heating. I can see that. Most of the people around me are just deeply worsening my lung-health for the cosy vibes, blissfully unaware that there’s any negative effects on others