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hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 00:04
And pushed.
Thinking about estimates.
So I told myself at the beginning of the week that it would take me three or four days to write this code. If you squint, the estimate was correct. I could do something about the granularity, though.
If I took my “almost every waking hour of the day” initial estimate and fit those into office hours, the healthy estimate would have been eight days, or twelve days with meetings. More with the red tape wrapped around most work.
Just figuring out the math behind those “multiply your initial estimate by four” suggestions.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 00:05
@genehack I mean yeah, but I was tapping the metal mag lite on the gate while I was talking.
Plus they’ve seen Bouncy Dog. They don’t mess with cops.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 06:13
@genehack Yeah that sounds about right.
I should factor that in and then do 4x.
Which is actually what my cautious and more accurate estimates have amounted to.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 06:22
ah nothing like the Friday post-producitve anxiety spike
Felt good about myself for like an hour last night. It was nice.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 06:35
Brain handed me “springing out fully formed from the head of Sisyphus” and I know it’s incorrect but brain might be onto something there.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 06:49
@m @semifor @mills_lane @perigrin @WuMargaret @genehack @Chanclatrix @pippa @skinnylatte @jacobydave @fitzgepn @ajroach42 federation is like the tide. Sometimes everything shows up in order, sometimes the shoe shows up before the foot.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 06:55
Payday. I automatically set aside X dollars for non-house stuff, and that account is now $X.68
So things are improving!
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 07:42
Realizing this is the first time I’ve ever set up a GitHub repo to share.
What’s this button do?
oh no
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 07:43
@tek @bitprophet fetching noises is still top ten, because so far there’s no snooze button for that.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 11:05
@jacobydave after a little more evaluation, Zed is just okay with remote editing. I had trouble getting extensions working with remote files or installing extensions remotely, or however it’s supposed to work.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 12:40
@farah Yah I don’t know how accurate the assessment is either, but those overloaded rolls really feel like the Tex-Mex of sushi.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 13:07
“Single Sign On” is one of the least accurate names I’ve come across in recent memory.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 16:57
somewhat deflated
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 17:59
@IamMrsGeek oh hang on there’s a joke there
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 21:09
The difference between the less impressive and the more impressive managers is when I do my code vomit the former goes “WTF is this” and the latter goes “WTF is this gonna be”
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 21:11
there is nuance of course but I wanted to see if I could just skip some of the nuance for once.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 21:36
@joelle oh jeez I did not know about Colorado Amendment 2. The someone you may know, they did good.
hackers.town: 2024-10-11 Fri 21:36
@genehack in the latter. You definitely took a “yes and” approach to the little surprises.