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9/14/2021

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More whale zones (SMAs)

Another feature coming soon: SMA's for whale zones pic.twitter.com/1yWjFVK2Ma
— Fish Rules (@FishRulesApp) September 14, 2021

Simple but useful micro-feature coming in next update: Toggle coordinates to get the decimal degrees format (useful if you want to enter these points in to some GPS head units) pic.twitter.com/KT3oChQDYY
— Fish Rules (@FishRulesApp) September 14, 2021

Misc.

Talking about math in terms of for-loops is incredibly helpful for a programmer. There’s a lot of silly complaining in this thread over nuances, but I think it’s immensely helpful. Along these lines, GitHub repos like the one below are helpful too.

https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code

btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops pic.twitter.com/Kq6dcihPp4
— Freya Holmér (@FreyaHolmer) September 11, 2021

I like looking at language nuances as “features”. This one particular is a really important nuance:

This –otherwise accurate– translation of a beautiful quote shows off a great “feature” of Spanish. That is: “To be” is broken down into identity (ser) and present state (estar). pic.twitter.com/AzkzWnnQOx
— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) September 13, 2021

Rick Blalock

9/14/2021

Today’s Features

Misc.