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The Elm Architecture[1] makes it easy to reason about code. You render the current state. You create a new state by applying a message to the current state. 1. https://guide.elm-la…

Yes. If I have a 5-year lease on a building, I can sublease it to you for 5 years, but I can't offer to sell it to you.

Are there any good reasons to use multiple GitHub user accounts? GitHub organization membership and permissions are well designed in my experience, negating the need for multiple u…

I don't understand how vouch solves the problem. From https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020628046009831542 : > There's no reason for getting vouched to be difficult. The primary thin…

If you don't think code generators are useful, that's fine. I think code generators are useful, but that one of the trade-offs of using them is that it encourages people to anthrop…

Your agency lets you choose the words you use.

Consider not anthropomorphizing software. How about we stop calling things without agency agents? Code generators are useful software. Perhaps we should unbundle them from prose ge…

A related, generalized idea: https://github.com/webhookdb/webhookdb

It could be. How did the control group do?

Then you know that it's going to take at least, say two weeks, one week for the first implementation and a week to finish it if it works. On the high end, could it take more than 2…

This why you should use confidence intervals for estimates. Use a 80% confidence interval, for example. 10% of the time, you should come in under the best case estimate. 10% of the…

Is it going to take more than two hours? Is it going to take more than two days? Is it going to take more than two weeks? Is it going to take more than two months? Is it going to t…

It's like having Michael Jordan with dementia on your team. You start out mesmerized by how many points he can score, and then you get incredibly frustrated that he forgets he has …

If you bill hourly, $15 for an extra billable hour is a good deal.

There seems to be an obvious solution. When I went to the DMV and couldn't pass the vision test without my glasses, they put on my driver's license an indication that I only passed…

redo[1] with shell scripts has become my goto method of dealing with multi-step data problems. It makes it easy to review each step of data retrieval, clean-up, transformation, etc…

The airline that inspired at least one passenger to write a song about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1SKldiiWm4

Junior developers don't yet have the intuition to tell the computer, "NO, NOT LIKE THAT!"

Hope they backed up the seed phrase for the Art Department before deleting it.

My mother-in-law shipped us homemade jam from Slovakia. It's been stuck in customs for 3 weeks. The agents must be working diligently to assay the canning jar lids.

presumably it's status quo bias

huh. I guess this is a prototype for features that will have be submitted to the upstream version. There was a feature in development for something like `git add -G `, maybe a deca…

Good thinking. I added a vhs tape: https://github.com/cwarden/git-add--interactive/blob/main/RE...

Thanks for the feedback. The latest version improves compatiblity with the perl version: https://github.com/cwarden/git-add--interactive/releases/tag...