Waltteri

@anotherwalther
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Finishing a MSc in CS at University of Helsinki.

Senior SWE at Cactos, battery energy storage systems. Previously Senior SWE at Garden, SRE at Webflow.

Recreational computer graphics, Rust, photography, cycling.

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Hauskaa Vappua! 🍾
OH: "so a monad is like a red flag. you see it in a code base and you know it's not going to hit production any time soon"
OH: "i'm not sure anyone has ever asked me what a monad is in an interview. i feel like my first question would be to ask if they know what a monad is and why they want to know :P"
OH: "i like to tell my monad interview story like this: when i interviewed at redacted, the interviewer asked me to explain monads. 15 minutes later, they asked me to stop."

A thread on silly overheard conversations on monads 🧵

OH: "had an interview for a potential customer. was surprised by the question 'what's a monad' :D

last time i was asked, i was interviewing for a summer trainee position. i said it is a burrito. they didn't laugh. i wasn't hired.

did you use the same answer? pretty much :D but this time they didn't laugh so i made it funny by explaining the joke"

if you use #nextest, I'd really love it if you tried out cargo-nextest 0.9.95-rc.2 -- there are some changes to the way test failures are output that I'd love feedback on:

cargo nextest self update --force --version 0.9.95-rc.2

Thanks!

So in English, at least, there's this idea of "Spring Cleaning."

It's traditionally explained by pointing out that, in Europe and parts of the US, it's cold in winter and you keep the house closed. Spring is when you open things back up.

Having watched my own cleaning/tidying cycles over the course of the year, I suspect it's also historical evidence for seasonal affective disorder. Since I've never lived anywhere that gets truly cold in the winter, but definitely find that my space gets junkier in the dark months until I get motivation to fix it come the light.

Is the term "buzz coding" already coined? If not, I'd like to coin it.

Basically vibe coding, but instead of using a llm you're drinking. The result is the same - new code that no one understands. But more fun!

good morning folks, have a lovely week 🧡
Time to re-read a wonderful classic 🧡