I wrote a bad Python script that I use to encode WAV files, upload to B2, and generate an RSS feed. I host my MP3 files on Backblaze B2 and the RSS feed on GitHub pages. With my usage, I stay in B2's free tier.

If you happen to be on Firefox, you can use this extension to get around it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

While I agree that most technologies can be used in both ways that are good and those that are evil, some technologies "appear to require, or to be strongly compatible with, particular kinds of political relationships" [0]. I find it reasonable to say that a technology may be more or less moral/ethical depending on what it encourages.

0: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652

Check out this paper for ideas: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05840.pdf

Poetry is great! To me, it seems like there should be more software folks interested in it. I definitely see a few parallels.

For retention, I find making cards in Anki to be helpful.

I know of at least one person who offers a code review service (specifically for Python).

Small sample size, but in Austin I've seen 5k-10k.

My ML professor used this book, and I loved it. Some presentations of ML make it seem like a bag of tricks; this feels like the opposite of that.