I blog so others can suffer too.Keep me posting
Somebody’s gonna need this note. Maybe in a week, maybe in a year, god forbit but maybe in ten.
I just accidentally sent an email with a tracking pixel in the otherwise excellent Mailbird email application. It told me it did it. That’s cool. It can be disabled in preferences. Also cool. It’s enabled by default. Less cool.
Spent hours working hard, fixed a logic bug with tendrils all over the app, and the user-visible change is one tab menu on one detail view is slightly nicer.
Ah well. I can expect fewer (or at least different) grumbles about the app, though.
I can tell I feel ownership of some code when I feel the urge to try writing it in a different language.
Okay, I haven’t checked out the Vim extension for VS Code for a while and it’s almost 100% workable. :split, :vsplit, keys for folding work as expected (which tbh is a better hit rate than Vim)
I may need to add my own macros for :Sex, :Hex, and :Tex though.
A Django model relationship is more likely to pick up its related objects when you remember to save them first.
First night in the new place. Got woken up by a woodpecker doing itself a brain damage.
Much better to me than neighbors stomping down the building hallway.
Progress! We got curtains up in the living room.
This is by far the most suburban residential neighborhood and home I’ve ever lived in.
This project’s the usual mix of intense aggravation and delight. But with these small projects all the terrible mistakes are mine, and that’s so much easier for me to navigate.
Me on a big project: “why’d they set things up in this confusing way? Clearly I’m missing something and must not disturb it.”
Me on a small project: “Why’d I set things up in this confusing way? Oh that’s right I was in a stupid hurry. Fixing now.”
Status update included me doing info dump word vomit but hey I offered clarification and they said they got it so we’re cool.
Wait what a PR for #CrystalLang 1.0.0 exists? It’s actually happening?
Well hell let’s rewrite everything!
That was a joke. Thought I’d clarify for folks who actually know me.
Excited about a pending 1.0 stamp though!
Flashing back to teenage me chasing Mom through the house trying to tell her the latest speculation I’d read about evolving intelligence.
Funny how I have to fix my unit tests more often when they involve basic math, compared to the ones about abstraction and flow.
@genehack I thought so too! I’m partial to the fruit salad effect with my syntax highlighting, but this is a nice break every once in a while.
Leave the apartment just as the leaf blowers are packing up, arrive at the house right on time for the window fitting guy, and just in case there’s any risk of me having a coherent thought Loud Dog’s whining at my feet full volume.
Soothing synthesizers for lo-fi latenight
#NowPlaying
https://www.mixcloud.com/jmanulim/ghostmic-casual-lofi-chillwave-chillhop-mix/
getting a feature idea and it’s cool but they didn’t ask for it and it doesn’t fix anything fundamentally broke so i won’t do it and that doesn’t sound like me oh no i’ve been brain controlled by a responsible developer help help
Sometimes I like to up the fun quotient of TDD by kneecapping the tests with fundamental alterations to the app logic and figuring out how to fix the tests.
Seriously. I’m like an inefficient organic Chaos Monkey.
Yay, tests pass again. And I’m at least almost 50% confident that I got it right.
oh hey cool, Edge has side tabs too
Class-based views starting to feel a bit less convenient when I add docstrings explaining what’s going on to my code heirs who may barely know Django, let alone CBV.
I’m not embedding a tutorial into the docstrings or anything, just listing context, template, and permission info.
Also, too bad there isn’t a :form: reference for admindocs.
I wrote a note: