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Tom Stuart Sep 3, 2023

Weeknotes 191: Vicious cycle https://tomstu.art/weeknotes-191-vicious-cycle

@tom don’t underestimate the profundity of a good burrito

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Ben Sheldon (he/him)Sep 29, 2024

@tom potato as a _nearly_ direct link to some sparkling “and just like that” commentary too 🤭

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Tom Stuart Sep 29, 2024

@bensheldon God, I’d forgotten all about that. But yeah, fine, I stand by it, happy for my AJLT hot takes to be immortalised beside civilisation’s one true baked potato recipe.

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James Adam Sep 29, 2024

@tom did you at least *consider* making the post title “impotently moistening”?

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Tom Stuart Sep 29, 2024

@james I definitely did consider it but, for reasons I can’t remember, I decided it wasn’t a great idea

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Marina Aísa Sep 22, 2024

@tom It's been raining in Barcelona for 3 days in a row and now I'm starting to understand the need for a dryer (which nobody in Spain has)

Also, the part about buying 'normal milk' to offer tea to the delivery people is the most English and the least vegan thing I've heard in a while! 🤣

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Kerry Buckley Aug 25, 2024

@tom I still have the box for my new TV. I feel I ought to keep it, but that would mean throwing away some of the other random boxes in the garage to make room, so I guess it’s just going to live in the hall forever.

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Tom Stuart Aug 25, 2024

@kerryb It is honestly a blessing that I don’t have a garage or loft. It’s only the extreme space constraint that keeps the madness at bay.

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Russell Garner Aug 18, 2024

@tom the bit about TDD: oh good, not just me?

These days, there are fast tests, there are slow tests, and you have an idea how far through your stack each penetrates; there may be some correlation; the labels vary.

But no bugger ever uses the labels Rails has left lying around. I think of all that as "legacy shit that some other team is probably forced to use, maybe with a side order of fixtures".

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Tom Stuart Aug 18, 2024

@rgarner That sounds accurate. I’m starting to make peace with the idea that I need to commit to my own special subset of the different test types on offer, ignore whatever idiosyncratic names they’ve been given, and just try not to think about it too much. But I’d rather be part of a community of people who are all working in the same way so that I can benefit from everyone else’s ideas. Oh well.

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Murray Steele Aug 18, 2024

@tom

> the RSpec talk I gave a decade ago at LRUG, only to find that the video is gone

The old page is on archive.org and if you do some shenanigans with your dns you might be able to fool Vimeo into thinking your browser is on skillsmatter.com to let you get the video from there. I keep meaning to try this to resurrect all the old LRUG videos.

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Murray Steele Aug 18, 2024

@tom obvs, almost certainly a faff but potentially faster than whatever AWS is doing with glacier

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Tom Stuart Aug 18, 2024

@hlame Oh, thank you, I’d forgotten that the videos themselves were hosted on Vimeo. I’ll do some rummaging.

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ufuk Jul 28, 2024

@tom I've also binned a bunch of notes from my uni/PhD years but I decided to buy a ScanSnap before throwing them away so that I would always at least have some digital versions of them. After all, the digital ones don't take up any room in your house. Additionally, the ScanSnap has come in really really handy for digitizing and chucking away all kinds of other paperwork, receipts and such, so well worth the money spent.

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Tom Stuart Jul 28, 2024

@ufuk I did briefly consider doing something similar, but in my case (unlike yours) it felt like I’d be feeding my delusion rather than confronting it. Of course I may yet live to regret the rashness of all this in another twenty years when I decide that the world really does need more half-baked research on substructural type systems. (I also have a storage problem with legitimate paperwork — receipts and such — so maybe I’ll invest in a ScanSnap anyway!)

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