A blog by Erty Seidohl
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Post Updates
I updated two posts and wanted to briefly mention it in a new post for folks who follow this blog via RSS. 1. I added some more updates and details to my blog post about taking Atomoxetine (Strattera) for my ADHD2. I added a new link to the a e s t h e t…
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ADHD / Atomoxetine
Edit: added some updates 2024-03-01 Edit: I’m no longer taking Atomoxetine because the side effects were just too much. But I’m leaving this post in case it helps someone in the future! I’ve been quite open about the fact that I was diagnosed with ADHD in December of 2021, and in January I started taking…
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Mental Model Metacognition
I’ve been seeing a therapist recently, and it’s been quite nice to be able to take an hour to introspect my mental processes with help from a professional. I also enjoy the time set aside to focus on myself – I don’t feel like I’m taking over the conversation or being selfish with the time.…
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Teaching Programming
Note: This is a post I drafted in 2017 and am publishing now in 2020. I am genuinely tired of Silicon Valley jerks being convinced they can save education while knowing nothing about it. Amandine Coget (@LiaSae) December 2, 2015 My Background I’m working as a tech educator now – my official title is “Lead…
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Awkwardness, Wavelengths, and Amplifiers
I’m an introvert, and although I can pass as an extrovert in certain situations (like being in front of a crowd, or when hanging out with people I know well), I still have a problem with small talk. I’ve run into this problem a couple of times over the last few days, where a conversation…
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Name Change
When Greta and I got married, we joked that we were going to merge our last names (Dohl and Seidel, respectively) into a portmanteau, “Seidohl”. With our wedding date approaching and no better ideas, we happily went forward with that idea and made it our legal last name. This isn’t a guide (there’s a good…
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Cabal Package Installation Woes
tl;dr: Nuke ~/.ghc and then run cabal install –lib (every lib you need) Edit: Since writing this post, there’s been some movement on the cabal bug, and it seems like there’s soon going to be a fix! I’m trying to write a simple webserver based on Warp, but I ran into an issue with a…
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Two New JS Comics: Async/Defer and Task Runners
I added two new JS Comics today: Async and Defer Task Runners
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Expanding the !!Con Aesthetic
TL;DR: There’s a cool new project to put on plays about computing. In addition to traditional talks, we’re inviting people to submit more artistic 10-minute plays or other “non-talks” to !!Con as well as The Art of Python. Sumana Harihareswara and I had lunch sometime late last year and talked for a while about her…
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Radish Cache
After coming across a (now deleted) answer on StackOverflow, I took some time to find instances of “redis” (a popular caching program) misspelled as “radish”. I think autocorrect is likely the culprit. I’m posting these here because I think that this is a wonderfully innocent error and not to shame the people involved. Imagining someone…