Persuasion methods for engineering managers

Insider tips to drive results, accelerate decisions, and build consensus from a former Google Engineering Director

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970104
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/5-powerful-persuasion-methods-for

After Effects - Sequence layers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrwcy_OT8eo

  1. Shorten the layers, say to 5 frames
  2. Select layers in order you want them to appear (Can do shift selection as well)
  3. rmb on selected layers, Keyframe assistant > Sequence layers

(Overlap with some fading may look good)

Lisp on Debian

Install common lisp and rlwrap

sudo apt install sbcl rlwrap

rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing.

Run lisp repl

rlwrap sbcl

Test

Add 3 numbers

(+ 1 2 3)
; should return 6

Hello world (~% stands for newline)

(format t "hello world~%")

Hello world as a function

(defun hello-world () (format t "hello world~%"))
(hello-world)

Hello world as a selfpropeled script with shebang that works on Debian

#!/usr/bin/sbcl --script
(format t "hello world~%")

Books

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Practical Common Lisp published by Apress These pages now contain the final text as it appears in the book.

IDE

Can’t figure out how to install/setup ‘alive’ for vscode, don’t want to deal with emacs. Slimv does something interesting for vim: https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html#get-started-with-slimv-and-sbcl
In zellij or tmux run

sbcl --load ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp

Open vim test.lisp or something, type ,c for start and ,e for eval.

vimlisp

Rage against the machine

Greatest hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25s_xQDURW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqqvlbdsDE

A Pixel Is Not A Little Square

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769959

A pixel is a point sample. It exists only at a point. For a color picture, a pixel might actually contain three samples, one for each primary color contributing to the picture at the sampling point. We can still think of this as a point sample of a color. But we cannot think of a pixel as a square—or anything other than a point.

Two decades of Git (Linus Torvalds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI

Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey from a Linux kernel management tool to the foundation of modern software development.

Raspberry pi5 (fake busy)


Zellij multiplexer, duh4, vim, nginx status, ollama llama.