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back at barnes and noble
hi internet people :)
the burnout is hitting me hard today. i don't know if it is work or that this material is getting more difficult but doesn't really matter. we're back at barnes and noble today to knock out a few more sections of css and js. i plan on staying until they close bc i will not do anything if i'm at home. please don't scream at me for the drink, b&n is one of the few places i can be without getting overstimulated easily.
forest time: 1 hr 25min as of 3:24 pm | actual productivity time is about 2.5 hr.
fucking love when I'm on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say "and you're coming with me" like. absolutely I am let's go on an adventure I've been spirited away
research resources
The Eye - An internet library of all sorts of things, not just occult books, but its got a good assortment of those.
PDF drive - it has like, over a million free pdfs. no signup or anything. they got some good occult books there
Academia.edu - I found a link to Azoetia there, and there are likely more occult books available, but unfortunately you have to sign up. LOTS of free books tho
Grimoire Encyclopedia - the shriveled monkey's paw that is grimoire magic. contains spells and spirits from the actual grimoires themselves, and sorts them all very nicely.
Esoterica Archives - it's got that old-internet type vibe, and i quite like it. crazy amount of occult books here, a lot of the grimoires from Grimoire Encyclopedia can be read online here.
Holybooks - its like Esoterica Archives, but with an updated forum feel. People add in the pdfs themselves, like PDF Drive. it's got a wide array of different religious texts
l-o-r-e - a sadly abandoned website now, all about the folklore of food. contains quite a few good recipes, if you want em. this website makes me hungry
pantheon - contains numerous articles on folklore all around the world
theoi - everyone knows about this, right? greek mythology, absolutely excellent.
here's an edible flower chart, yknow, just incase
pinecone.pub - don't hear much about this one anymore, but i quite like it still. good.. inspiration
sigilscribe - it makes sigils for you
scihuß - iirc it moves domains every so often, but its an excellent resource for academic papers.
biblestudytools (psalms) - i find that this format makes it easy to find the specific psalms you want much faster, yknow, for you bastards who don't have a book on hand ;p
planetaryhours.net - calculates the planetary hours for you, for you magicians and witches alike who can't do it by hand
and of course, my favorite, google.com, (or duckduckgo, if you're pirating or just hate google.)
For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3
💌List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers, xoxo💌
I don't really have many mutuals yet but I'll answer haha
Coffee
A good book that you can get lost in
When you have no errors in your code #ikyk
When your favorite coffee shop is empty and quiet
fresh flowers on the kitchen counter
Study/code sesh in Barnes and noble after work today. Still in search of a cozy dimly lit coffee shop to study in. Only bad thing about going to school online ;(
Today’s Comfy & Cozy Study Space 💙🧸🕯️🙏🏻
Today, I’m start early. The plan is to get some journaling done, and to pull a card from The Urban Crow Oracle deck. I love waking up when it’s dark outside and lighting a candle all bundled up in my cozy study space! The Minecraft ambience shown above is by Drift Away Ambience.
-Velvet Rose 🌹
A non exhaustive list of creators making "study with me" videos and that I like to watch while studying (as the YouTube algorithm just hide some creators from me after some time without watching them) :
tani study (english student, ??)
a vet student (veterinarian student, french)
yulma (?? student, korean)
love, Nika (stem student, english)
Mindful studying (code student, ??)
Maria Silva (med student, ??)
Celine (??, ??)
fayefilms (med student, malaysian)
Sean Study (IT student, english)
(I'll add more when I'll find other channels so feel free to tell me yours and i'll add them to the list 🩷)
advice: add the receiver's email address only after writing the email (no accidental early "hit send"s)
The women who laid the foundation of tech
EDIT: I noticed that this post ended up being reblogged by terfs. If you're transphobic this post is not for you to reblog. I want to celebrate everyone who is not a cis man in this industry, including trans women and nonbinary people in tech, and it was my mistake to only include cis women in this post when there are so many trans women and nonbinary people who have done great things in tech as well. Trans women are women and just as important.
Here you can read about trans ppl in tech, and please do:
https://www.thecodingspace.com/blog/2022-03-01-six-trans-programmers-who-shattered-the-lavender-ceiling/
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/transgender-tech-visibility-obstacles-remain/story?id=76374628
The morning of women's day i attended a super inspiring seminar about being a woman in tech at a large tech company in my city, and now I'm inspired to share what I learned with all of you!
I didn't have time to finish this post on women's day, but it's not too late to post now: every day is a day to celebrate women!
Women actually laid the foundation for a lot of the tech industry.
For example, the first computer, ENIAC, was programmed completely by women! While men were the behind the scenes engineers, it was women who did all the actual programming of ENIAC.
The women who made up the team responsible for programming it were called Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances V. Spence and Ruth Teitelbaum.
I think one woman who is finally getting her overdue recognition is Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician (also often referred to as the first programmer) who created the first algorithm in 1842, which wasn't recognized until 1953! However, since none of her machines were ever completed it was never tested in practice during her time.
She has since been celebrated by giants such as google, and she has given name to a programming language (Ada). She was also the first person to write about what is today known as AI. Back when she was practicing, computers were simply thought of as calculators. But she had an idea that if computers can understand numbers, then that can be translated to letters, and in turn that can lead to computers being able to handle words, and eventually even write, draw and create music.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress in the 40's, but she was also an inventor who laid ground for what we use today for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS services.
During WW2 she wanted to contribute positviely to the military efforts against the Nazis, and she tried to figure out how to radio control torpedoes. In 1942 she patented her technology "Secret Communications System", also known as frequency hopping, which laid the foundation for the technology we use today for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. It wasn't until 1962 that it was first used for its intended purpose, during the cuban missile crisis.
Grace Hopper invented the first compiler, called A-0, in 1955, and was also part of the Univac team, which was the company also responsible for building ENIAC. She also initiated work on the COBOL programming language.
She was also the one to coin the term "bug" in 1947. Computers back then had lights to visualize their working process (which was also a womans idea to implement btw) and bugs would be attracted to the lights, but usually that was no issue - until a bug made its way into a tube which caused the computer to stop working. Hopper taped the bug to a piece of paper and logged what caused the crash - a bug.
Dorothy Vaughan (left), alongside colleagues such as Katherine Johnson (middle) and Mary Jackson (right), was a mathematician at NASA (called NACA when she started) who worked on the orbit for the first ever manned spaceflight and later also on Apollo 11 that would take humanity to the moon!
When Vaughan started at what was then called NACA, segregation was still prevalent in the US and she was not allowed in the same areas in the office as her white colleagues. Another department was formed for the black staff, and when the director of said department unexpectedly died, she was appointed as the new director and thus became the first ever black woman at that position at NACA/NASA. In 1958 when NACA becomes NASA segregation is forbidden, and that is when Vaughan and her colleagues Johnson and Jackson started working on programming the orbit and later also Apollo 11.
Continuing on the same track of NASA and space, Margaret Hamilton was the Apollo project's first actual programmer. Hamilton became the director of software engineering at NASA in 1965, and she was also the person to first coin the term !
In the image above, she stands next to all the handwritten code that was used to send humanity to the moon. During the early stages of the project when she would speak of "sofware engineering", software development was not taken as seriously as other forms of engineering, and it wasn't regarded as a science, either. She wanted to legitimize software development as an engineering discipline, and overtime the term "software engineering" gained the same respect as any other technical discipline.
And lastly, if you're a woman in STEM, I want to highlight and celebrate you! Being a woman in a male dominated industry is not easy, we often suffer from sterotype threat and are not seen as our own individuals, but rather "the woman" in a room full of men. But just as these women, I'm sure you will achieve greatness!!
Here are some additional resources if you'd like to learn more:
https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued
https://digitalfuturesociety.com/programming-when-did-womens-work-become-a-mans-world/
And this was mainly my source for this post, but it's unfortunately only available in Swedish:
Thank you for reading ✨
cozy at home study vibes
the past few days have been so stupid at work :/ i'm so ready for the weekend. Hunkering down for the rest of the night to finish my section on HTML then moving onto CSS if I can stay awake :) first picture is a small snippet I wrote while doing my course yesterday
~ It was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t ~
Ottessa Moshfegh | My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Semester/End of Term Update
Hi internet people! Tomorrow is my final exam for my last class of the term so I figured I'd do a bit of a recap.
Classes Taken: 5
Credit hours: 19
Certifications gained: 3/10
I started my first term with WGU in October of 2023 and in that time completed 19 credit hours and five classes; two of which were certifications. WGU is a self paced online university which lets me go through classes much faster than I would at a brick & mortar. Being able to do one class at a time has been such a huge lifesaver with my ADHD. I can only focus on one thing at a time. It did kind of kick me in the ass with Linux though, because I couldn't make myself concentrate on it for my life.
I'm tentatively scheduled for 26 credits next term and I'm not 100% sure if I will end up meeting that goal. I hope so though! My next certifications are Network+ and Security+ which should help me get a government sector job and up my pay a little bit.
On another note: I finally finished the Crescent City series from Sarah J Maas last night and woweee is it a rollercoaster. Next reads are the Atlas Complex and a nonfiction duology on Germanic paganism and folk magic.
all i want is qty 1! a dimly lit cafe/bookstore with good coffee and comfortable seating. that's it.
sincerely,
a full time worker and college student who is tired of starbucks and libraries with fluorescent lighting
~ Intro Post ~
Hi! I’m V (pronouns: she/they). I’m a network engineering and security major, expecting to graduate with my bachelor's in 2026. I also work full time as an IT consultant for my day job. I currently go to school online. I would love to connect with more friends in the IT/cybersecurity/comp sci space.
DNI -minors
the witchy urge to just be naked and swim in a spring under the full moon.
will i finish this degree or will this degree finish me
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
