Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2020-08-27

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hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 14:39

Trello sure is handy for tracking the tasks you can’t put in JIRA.

Trello card “THREE FUCKING HOURS OF MEETINGS” in “Now” column

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 15:38

I finally got the Django library for Robot Framework behaving, so that’s pretty cool.

Okay yes. Browser tests are slow. Especially in WSL. But it’s still quicker than manually checking everything all the time. I do what I must. I have no QA backup.

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 16:13

The details change but the sentiment stays the same.

#NowPlaying

Kimya Dawson — “Loose Lips”

https://song.link/us/i/1058956037

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 18:44

A full test run takes a bit longer when one of your fixtures is erroring out.

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 20:49

Ugh. Fine. I’ll use MyPy.

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 21:26

1200 pypi entries for stubs and 900 of them are for boto3

hackers.town: 2020-08-27 Thu 23:50

A purist might say that some of my test assertions are a bit silly, but the silly stuff has been tripping me up. I won’t feel even a little bad for automating those checks.