@b0rk Reminds me of Pry (a Ruby REPL)’s cd commands for changing scope: https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/State-navigation#Changing_scope

It was a pretty intuitive command, piggybacking on existing familiarity with cd for directories.

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Dang, @b0rk does not miss.

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/111460966674032287

@philcrissman @b0rk Ugh, dang, checking off that box, I guess. 😬

https://social.kejadlen.dev/notice/AbbLX6ZeNp9NGzmjNg

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

@nat @b0rk I’ve been wanting to give a talk about how I think about git for a while now, since I’ve never really sat down and explained my backing mental model for working with it to anyone, only really just what commands to use when pairing/helping people with git.

“none houses with left grief” is the worst/best internet humor reference in The Locked Tomb

When a nesting screech owl finds a Texas blind snake, they swiftly and carefully scoop it up and carry it back to the nest, but not as food for the young owlets—as a “house pet.”

Once installed in the nest, the Texas blind snake eats any insects that venture near, like a cat in charge of pest control.

Baby owlets with a Texas blind snake in the nest fare 50% or higher better than baby owlets without one. 4/

@nat @ratkins It’s interesting now that one of my main communities nowadays is actually Euro-centric (though still very tech-heavy) finding out what’s similar and different between the cultures.

@nat @ratkins Oh yeah, that’s fair, I might be conflating the bad vibes I had from EA and overlaying my current negative TESCREAL associations on top of past other negative things about it.

It has been a while though that it’s been associated w/the lesswrong AI rats in my head, but I honestly don’t remember when that started happening.

I have to assume it’s one of those context-collapse things, where we’re naturally most aware of the parts of EA that we encounter and it’s actually a pretty wide umbrella.

Update to my previous post: while surprised, coworkers may not, in fact, be delighted

The war on Christmas cannot end until Christmas ends its illegal occupation of November.

I have not historically been one of Hixie’s fans, but his goodbye-to-Google note is clear-eyed, humane, matches up with my own experience there, and sticks the dagger into a few places that seem to deserve it. Recommended: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1

meet the merge

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That’s a lot of stock. (Only coarsely strained in this pic.)

@ratkins It’s available in the O’Reilly Complete Public Library (nee Safari Books Online), which is where I’m reading it.

Also, it’s so nice that SPL has free access to the O’Reilly library. (Previously Safari, but I forget what it’s called now.)

This book reminds me a lot of his earlier book Smalltalk: Best Practice Patterns (which was very good even for non-Smalltalk languages), but Tidy First is actually meant to be more general and so far has so many techniques that I find invaluable. Probably going to go next to 99 Bottles of OOP for books I recommend for programmers who want to get better at the craft.

Enjoying Beck’s Tidy First?, though so far mostly a lot of things I already agree with and try to do.

But this is one of my favorite techniques, and something I don’t see used that often:

Sometimes you read code that’s been split into many tiny pieces, but in a way that hinders you from understanding it. Inline as much of the code as you need until it’s all in one big pile. Tidy from there.