It’s pretty gsimple

December 23rd

Never trust a man deploying with a Santa hat on

Why would they get rid of McKinsey? That would make dinner at the club super awkward!

That’s a very narrow definition of the contents of the book.

What if we don’t define code quality in terms of the aesthetics of that code?

Why is the perception of code quality so important prior to that code ever having been executed?

How can we test our code? What does it’s testability tell us? What do it’s tests tell us?

Is our test code good quality? Does it need to be? How can we know it is? Is it’s quality measured by the same metrics as the code it is testing?

‘Clean Code’ by Uncle Bob is a good place to start when answering these questions.

Quality is not a measurable entity

The moment at which I knew this article couldn’t be taken seriously came later than expected, but here it is

Heinz’s “seriously good”

PM expert mode challenge: recall the last thing you asked for

This is your main on drugs 🍳

Oh there’s totally a time and place for rebase strategies, this just wasn’t one of them.

Git’s biggest problems come from
people taking ritualistic views on what is “right” instead of thinking about which strategies work best for the situation, project, and team.

A few days ago I had to gently explain to someone why their rebase-and-force-push strategy not only prevented the use of “review latest” feature on GitHub, but was also pointless because all PRs are squash committed to main.

They didn’t get it and now they seem a little mad at me.

Here’s an incredibly animated chart of how poorly I’m doing. Note that I seem to throttle the operation every 5 seconds or so.

Explanation? No, no. Haha. No. We don’t do anything like that.

The current hype trend is to build a lazy web UI around a general agentic AI and calling it a day.

What you’re doing is more similar to what established firms were already doing with machine learning 5 years back.

O(n) access, very efficient.

No, I do not care to share the value of n

Because quoting requires token expansion (e.g. ~ to /home/you). Escaping gives you a much shorter path in that case.

That said I’m with you, full quoted paths read better to me.

They despise the current government and it shows in their reporting. The BBC are used to getting paid regardless of who is in government, and have been almost overtly right leaning for years now. They’re currently headed by a former conservative political candidate. Laura Kuennsberg has had more accusations of bias levied against her than is normal for someone who’s job is quite literally to be politically unbiased.

Flick on to BBC News 24 and watch some of their coverage of Charlie Kirk. The final nails are firmly in that coffin.

I’m a big fan of my keyboard

Bill Gates finding out about Codeberg: 🤤

Put one at each end and spin that Weiner

This is why we can’t have nice things