#ladyargento

[undasura]

listen,

having some brooding ikemen woman is like having a wonderful bonbon. A delicious sometimes treat.

(nodding) its true.. sometimes you need to see a cool girl be cool...

[ladyargento]

METAMORPHIC

Layer One:

Not even rock can remain of the same stone forever as the gore of the earth dances as flesh it carries the weight and heat of feet and root It holds organs, a heart and blood I am filled with high halls and caverns, deadfalls Bodies are hidden here, hanging from my bones Entropy cleans the air, feeds the soil The past is the beast radiating good and evil The future is the beast that grinds all things to dust

Layer Two:

A heart is an organ and a ballroom, life flowing to its rhythm ever forward Time has a soft pump, pulsing a rhythm to which we dance ballroom drama, the eternal movement, now and now Now, I am my great grandmother, hewn from native rock, sandstone husband, blank future, Now I am my grandfather, drunk ditch jew, forced to peel the skin from a bunker, gutter future Now, I am myself, ruin of genocides, the flow of dead ends dances in me, history is the beast of all moments Crack a stone and it will be full of blood

Layer Three:

Skin is the most visible organ, most forgotten, Sunscorched and weathered, a landscape, a land, rocks and dirt and flora. Our world is covered in skin and hair and teeth, muscle under the skin, blood in the muscle, bones and bones and bones. I love your skin, I like that it is like mine, marked, mineral considered from a different earth. Marred by stories, pockmarked by histories. Mineral from a different earth, let us share warmth. There is skin enough for touch, your history is my history. My heart beats for you. Cut me and I will bleed love songs.

Layer Four:

Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, and Eve from the rib of Adam, Amaterasu, from Izanagi's Eye Identity, then, is an organ too, Each land holds many organs, identities of many parts Can identity fester or grow like a spore on the living Death as an abundance of life Did the boy spring from me to cover, to possess, Did I discard him or Does he live in me again, returned to the land, primordial, I hear him sing in my blood, "I am of you, but not all of you. I rest in you, like a heart beats, like blood flows, like skin guards."

Layer Five:

Once upon a time, one beheld a beast, the person plead "Please, beast, let me pass, I am all skin and bones, hardly meat, I have come a long way, I want to go very far, There is still so much road left" but the beast killed them anyway, knowing neither English, nor reason. Wildife cannot be leashed. And that is the story of the beast.

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Officially a Java Certified Professional

Passed a damn exam now I'm a java 17 pro developer, fwiw.

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Math in development

As someone who bombed out of Dutch Middle School and had to finish the adult equivalent at like 16-18, never picked up math again and got into development through a bootcamp, I have not found a lot of application for more complicated math subjects yet, outside of like complicated katas (there I tended to just look up the right equation and implement it), but I also feel very... I dunno, it seems Useful To Know but most of the more complicated implementations have been abstracted away most of the time and a lot of your day-to-day will not involve that, although I wonder if it is more present in more low-level applications.

I have complicated feelings about it because I feel like it would be very useful to me to know and fun to know both (I think I could be very good at it. I seem to genuinely enjoy it), but I am also Older Now and I have neither the money nor the time to go back and study basic math all the way to university math just to do the job I'm already doing. Learning gets increasingly more fraught when you get older and academia is a scam.

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Lost my job as an instructor due to Circumstances. I wanted this outcome so it's not a bad thing but being jobless sucks regardless. I didn't feel motivated to work on Projects for the sake of LinkedIn so I decided to try building a game in Godot Using Rust bindings, and it's been super fun.

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Lambdas, Functional Interfaces and Generics in Java

I wrote a little blog post on lambdas, functional interfaces and generics in Java, check it out on my dev.to blog here:

Functional Interfaces, Lambdas and Generics, oh my!

So what is all this then? A colleague of mine, after showing him some of what I had...

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Project ideas

Any got some ideas for a fun project to work on? I'm kinda tired and low on creative juice.

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Records and data transfer in Java

So a colleague of mine was curious about the Data Transfer Object pattern, DTOs and specifically Records in Java, so I decided to write smth about that. You can find it here:

Records and data transfer

2023-12-07 So… transferring data Transferring data! It’s one of the most...