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2021-03-21

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hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 00:04

Bedtime doodle: a careful kraken

Some sort of squid-like sea monster walking on its tentacles, with a concerned expression as one tentacle brushes near buildings

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 07:47

My goodness but that complex SQL query got the wrong answer quickly. I’m getting better!

Now for getting the correct answer.

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 07:48

@egret Nah, just cheap.

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 08:56

Got the SQL sorted. Turning into a Django QuerySet bit by bit with the help of Jupyter and a heck of a lot of web searching.

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 10:28

Well cursor.execute(weird_sql_i_barely_figured_out) it is, I guess!

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 10:45

Somebody bought something off my Design By Humans store?

I don’t think that’s the size of anyone I know. Heck might that be an honest to goodness random customer?

Gotta get more stuff on there.

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/randomgeek/

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 16:12

Got an email from pinboard politely begging me to convert from the old ridiculously cheap one-shot lifetime billing to subscription.

Yeah of course I converted. Been expecting that email a couple years now TBH.

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 17:27

@GeoffWozniak Excellent!

hackers.town: 2021-03-21 Sun 17:30

Very carefully wrote a test for the buggy behavior I just saw, before implementing the very quick fix.

That’s called a best practice.

Don’t get used to it.