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And there we go. Tariffs paused, markets manipulated. Just another grift. I wanna know who in his orbit bought the dip.

And there we go. Tariffs paused, markets manipulated. Just another grift. I wanna know who in his orbit bought the dip.

As expected, he crashes the markets today so his buddies, who already shorted, can "buy the dip" and make double when things rebound on...

As expected, he crashes the markets today so his buddies, who already shorted, can "buy the dip" and make double when things rebound on cancellation (or softening) of the tariffs before Wednesday. He's done it 3 times now.

My kids summer camp sent an email with, according to the subject, announcements and guidelines for the upcoming season.No text, just a...

My kids summer camp sent an email with, according to the subject, announcements and guidelines for the upcoming season.

No text, just a "video message from our Dean".

Welp, guess who will have no knowledge of said guidelines come summer.

"This is the first I'm hearing of that."If truly the first the president of the United States hears of anything is from a reporter's...

"This is the first I'm hearing of that."

If truly the first the president of the United States hears of anything is from a reporter's question, that's it's own fucking problem jesus stop letting him off the hook

https://mtlynch.io/no-longer-my-favorite-git-commit/

https://mtlynch.io/no-longer-my-favorite-git-commit/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification apropos of nothing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification apropos of nothing

The plural of middleware is middles ware I don't make the rules.

The plural of middleware is middles ware I don't make the rules.

I enjoy when tools (miro, google docs, etc) have the little control at the top to switch between and Edit and View modes, so that I don't...

I enjoy when tools (miro, google docs, etc) have the little control at the top to switch between and Edit and View modes, so that I don't accidentally modify something while I'm reviewing it, and I get back my keyboard and mouse for more navigational options.

These tools have finally caught up to vim.

My company Slack is now piloting one of these internal ChatGPT bots. Great.I've now seen it in action 3 times, all of which go like...

My company Slack is now piloting one of these internal ChatGPT bots. Great.

I've now seen it in action 3 times, all of which go like this:

1. Person A asks, who handles X?
2. Person B asks the bot
3. The bot spams a huge message
4. Person B says, I think it's team Y
5. Person C confirms it's team Y
6. Person D jumps in to clarify that a few of the points made by the bot are, in fact, not true

The future!

So here's a weird service I'd use if it existed...You browse lumber online, you buy (and pay for) larger sizes but specify smaller cuts to...

So here's a weird service I'd use if it existed...

You browse lumber online, you buy (and pay for) larger sizes but specify smaller cuts to have shipped to you. The excess stays in a sort of "inventory" that you can come back to and use again, paying only the cut/ship fee that time.

I tend to have smaller projects, and don't have a vehicle suitable for driving large sheets of plywood home to cut and use, nor do I want to store the excess. So I'd gladly pay a cut/ship fee to avoid figuring that out.

I know you can often by small pieces directly, but they're more expensive, and I know you can cut at the store yourself, but my local store is terrible and I can literally never find an employee to let me.

The service could even estimate in their favor as far as what can be cut from what, I don't care. And they obviously don't have to store and use "my" actual material; it's all on paper only.

This could really just be software to manage payment and inventory and then contract the cut/ship out to someone local. 🤔

I'm loving this new use of "allergic" in code review when making a suggestion based more in personal experience than any objective coding...

I'm loving this new use of "allergic" in code review when making a suggestion based more in personal experience than any objective coding practice.

Example: I'm a bit allergic to type synonyms, can we make this a newtype?

It's a valid justification, while also admitting you're being picky. And it's less violent than "battle scars".

Getting unreasonably angry that I wanted to use something that happened to be written in go and running the little go install thing from the...

Getting unreasonably angry that I wanted to use something that happened to be written in go and running the little go install thing from the README dropped a top-level, non-hidden ~/go directory, that I had to sudo to remove no less. Who tf do you think you are. Get tf out of my $HOME.

Here's the thing about code style: nothing is better or worse, except that consistent is better and inconsistent is worse.Some style...

Here's the thing about code style: nothing is better or worse, except that consistent is better and inconsistent is worse.

Some style actually "matters", such as using a semi-colon all the time, even if there exists rules about when it can be optional, so you can avoid bugs caused by getting those rules wrong.

Some style brings objective benefit, such as preferring a multi-line format that reduces diff noise when lines are added or removed.

But these facts only serve as a basis of discussion within a team to adopt one style over another.

Once adopted, none of that matters anymore. The only reason we do what we do is because it is what has been adopted, and is now what we all should targeted in order to be consistent.

Therefore, when I notice in code review that you've done one style over here and a different style over there, I'm going to nit-pick that, even if there's no adopted rule or objective basis for one over the other.

I'm not actually nit-picking the style, which indeed doesn't matter, I'm nit-picking the lack of intention, thought, and consistency, which does.

So let me make sure I have this right:OpenTelemetry is a spec/standard, with a bunch of libraries/SDKs that are agnostic to where said...

So let me make sure I have this right:

OpenTelemetry is a spec/standard, with a bunch of libraries/SDKs that are agnostic to where said telemetry goes.

You instrument your app with these libraries and you send the telemetry to a collector where you can centrally transform and then export things anywhere: Honeycomb, Datadog, XRay whatever.

But, in your nice agnostic instrumentation, you have to make sure you generate trace ids in whatever bespoke format the actual place you are exporting to needs. And that happens in the app code; you can't do it in, you know, the place where you centrally transform and export things.

So no, you can't actually export to multiple places, or have your instrumentation be de-coupled from the storage.

I take issue with the millennial CAPTCHA not being T9 on the text one.

I take issue with the millennial CAPTCHA not being T9 on the text one.

I guess I get it, but the fact that GitHub doesn't automatically add GH_TOKEN=${{ github.token }} on all actions runs is a constant nuisance...

I guess I get it, but the fact that GitHub doesn't automatically add GH_TOKEN=${{ github.token }} on all actions runs is a constant nuisance for me.

@derekprior your refrain of "can we replace this with a phone call to a human? during software feature planning has lived rent free in my...

@derekprior your refrain of "can we replace this with a phone call to a human? during software feature planning has lived rent free in my head for years.

I think Daniel is on your level here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2322

I propose the term "lognore" to mean log, but otherwise ignore, something, such as an exception.Co-worker: "what happens if de-serialization...

I propose the term "lognore" to mean log, but otherwise ignore, something, such as an exception.

Co-worker: "what happens if de-serialization fails here?"

Me: "It's lognored. We treat it like a cache miss."

Remote life is constantly forgetting if it's Shift-Enter or Ctrl-Enter that makes a newline without sending vs sending immediately and...

Remote life is constantly forgetting if it's Shift-Enter or Ctrl-Enter that makes a newline without sending vs sending immediately and always guessing wrong.