It’s pretty gsimple

December 23rd

Never trust a man deploying with a Santa hat on

Why would they get rid of McKinsey? That would make dinner at the club super awkward!

That’s a very narrow definition of the contents of the book.

What if we don’t define code quality in terms of the aesthetics of that code?

Why is the perception of code quality so important prior to that code ever having been executed?

How can we test our code? What does it’s testability tell us? What do it’s tests tell us?

Is our test code good quality? Does it need to be? How can we know it is? Is it’s quality measured by the same metrics as the code it is testing?

‘Clean Code’ by Uncle Bob is a good place to start when answering these questions.

Quality is not a measurable entity

The moment at which I knew this article couldn’t be taken seriously came later than expected, but here it is

PM expert mode challenge: recall the last thing you asked for

This is your main on drugs 🍳

Oh there’s totally a time and place for rebase strategies, this just wasn’t one of them.

Git’s biggest problems come from
people taking ritualistic views on what is “right” instead of thinking about which strategies work best for the situation, project, and team.

A few days ago I had to gently explain to someone why their rebase-and-force-push strategy not only prevented the use of “review latest” feature on GitHub, but was also pointless because all PRs are squash committed to main.

They didn’t get it and now they seem a little mad at me.

Here’s an incredibly animated chart of how poorly I’m doing. Note that I seem to throttle the operation every 5 seconds or so.

Explanation? No, no. Haha. No. We don’t do anything like that.

The current hype trend is to build a lazy web UI around a general agentic AI and calling it a day.

What you’re doing is more similar to what established firms were already doing with machine learning 5 years back.

O(n) access, very efficient.

No, I do not care to share the value of n

Because quoting requires token expansion (e.g. ~ to /home/you). Escaping gives you a much shorter path in that case.

That said I’m with you, full quoted paths read better to me.

I’ve been using Metube but it’s pretty basic. Might give this a shot.

I buy vinyls and merch. It doesn’t entirely cut out the middleman but it’s less morally bankrupt than giving it to record labels

I’m a big fan of my keyboard

Bill Gates finding out about Codeberg: 🤤

This is why we can’t have nice things

Louis makes a lot of the points you’re making in the video. He points to Clippy as an example of universal repulsion where we “didn’t know how lucky we had it”, versus the wolf dressed up in social media’s clothing we have today.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but it’s still worth watching the video. His overall aim is an honourable one and the choice of Clippy is pretty smart in light of the aims.