One job I worked a long time ago had a strict approach to meetings: a single two hour meeting, once a week. Everything else handled via email and ticket tracker.
I really miss that job sometimes.
hackers.town: 2022-06-14 Tue 09:26
Ooh okay #Dendron task notes are evolving a bit. 0.99 has a Set Task Status command, which makes it a bit more interesting for my mixed-used approach to Personal WTF Management.
“What if we used Hugo to drive a PKM. It’d sure make preview & publishing easier. We could maybe mix in Small Tech’s JSDB and some htmx and even have live-editing if —”
No. Brain. Stop. Go back to your corner and eat the crayons like I told you. We got work.
hackers.town: 2022-06-13 Mon 12:18
somebody asked for info on a topic i like and i only shared three links i am so proud of myself
Was worried yesterday that a Node.js code idea of mine uses 73MB RAM but it turns out the same check shows “Hello World” in Node.js using 71MB so a) the idea is still on; and b) ugh Node.
hackers.town: 2022-06-11 Sat 07:45
Reminder from my days with Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc:
The fact that I’m complaining about Node.js is the clearest indication that I’m actually using it.
Most goddam supportive team I ever worked on. Easy to give that energy back, too.
hackers.town: 2022-06-10 Fri 11:51
Starting to imagine lambdas / serverless as the code golf of computational resource allocation, and as such am quickly developing an intense dislike for it.
@badsirbrian@petersanchez This is a resource shared with non-technical folks, otherwise I’d push for something very similar.
As it is, I encourage our devs (i can do that now am senior) to revisit project README files and have supplemental process notes in-repo where it makes sense.
A few years with assert in Pytest and I’m completely unimpressed by xUnit-style matcher methods in other test libraries.
hackers.town: 2022-06-05 Sun 17:22
Used to think self.assertEqual(result, expected) or expect(result).to eq expected were just the bomb and now I’m all “WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME REMEMBER ALL THIS WHY CAN’T I JUST USE assert result == expected”