Thoughts, ramblings and ridiculousness of Daryl Ducharme
Daryl Ducharme is an entertainer by nature, a tech muse by trade, and a walking dad joke. He's got lots of ideas that he'd like to share and he wants to hear yours.
Before I joined the DMN/S team full time, I worked with them as a 20% project. 20% projects are when you get to put 20% of your time into some other project, that may have nothing to do with the team you are working with. It wasn't writing code, per se, but it was talking tech - or being a developer advocate, something I have been trying to do before I even joined google.
Read MoreI've been putting in 20% of my time at work with a team that creates content to teach and discuss [Google Cloud Tech](https://cloud.google.com). For that reason you can hear me on previous episodes of the [Google Cloud Reader podcast](https://cloud.google.com/podcasts/cloud-reader) and see me in an earlier episode of [This Week in Cloud](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqIxUCyOq0-FPNn5GZ2-XR45). However, last week I've changed teams and am now on the Developer Media Network team 100%. This is my first video since I started.
Read MoreAs a francophile, I thought it would be funny to make the villagers make stereotypical french sounds. Someone I play with cheered the idea on when I mentioned it. And thus, the Outrageous accent pack was born.
Read MoreIf you start to work in Vim, you start to edit your .vimrc file. Or, in the case of a Neovim user you might be editing your init.vim file. Either way it can quickly grow unwieldy. By unwieldy, I mean a bunch of lines of Vim script that don't necessarily connect contextually with the lines around them. If this doesn't bother you, you can stop reading now. Come back to this article when it does.
Read MoreIt has been a long time since I've written about programming. I used to write a lot about Actionscript back when I was a professional Flash/Flex/Actionscript developer. It was one of the things that helped me to become an expert in the field. For reasons, mostly having to do with employment agreements that scared me, I stopped writing. I also created a disclaimer, which I linked on all my social media, for this reason.
I want to learn like that again. It is for this reason that I've challenged myself. I have challenged myself to create an Android App, in vim (or a vim variant), with Kotlin. This seems like quite a bit of pain. Why would I do this to myself?
Read MoreA weird thing happened as I left the theater after performing tonight. It was just after midnight, and as I walked to my car I heard what I thought might be gunshots coming from up the Fremont hill. Whatever it was, it was definitely loud enough to echo clearly off of Queen Anne Hill. Being the tech dork that I am, I know that the Seattle Police Department has a pretty good twitter feed. Maybe there will be a tweet on their feed that says if something is happening in an area I usually drive home through. I’d be more than happy to take a detour and stay away from gunfire. So, I planned to check my phone when I got to my car.
Read MoreI'm starting to blog again when low an behold, my favorite magician shows up on Penn & Teller's Fool Us. In a routine called "Rain maker", Jeff McBride appears to make water appear from nowhere.
Read MoreI've been working on a podcast with Comedysportz Seattle called the #CSzSeattleAfterParty. Last night was our 4th official podcast and it was, by far, my favorite one.
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There is a part of me that wants to say, "Big deal! He's just an actor leaving a show." However, I decided to write a post about what I've appreciated most about Matt Smith as The Doctor because I've never been a fan of anything before. Not like I've become for Doctor Who. This is the first regeneration I'll get to see when it happens. I'm new to Who and have done a lot of binge watching over the last year and a half to be caught up (and then some). And most of all, sometimes it is good to appreciate the little things in life so that they are that much sweeter.
When performing improv, every improviser has a desire to seem intelligent. If you are like me you've probably looked up to improvisers with lots of experience who seem to wow audiences with subtlety which turns into high spots of the scenes they are in. Perhaps, you think you need to be subtle, on purpose, in scenes to do the same thing. Improv doesn't work that way and Occam's Razor explains why.