Joël Franušić

@jpf
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Show threadJoël Franušić3d ago
@lmorchard make it so
Joël Franušić3d ago
Reading the posts that @simon references here feels like jumping into ice cold water:
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/30/retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Joël FranušićMay 25
My work with the 9P protocols has me now facing a daunting task of determining what the "proper" answer is for little things that may have large consequences. For example: "should a client be able to walk (or open) a path of /tmp/../bin/../home" or "should a server give specific reasons for why it rejected a request" or "how long should a timeout last"
Joël FranušićMay 25
@Tarnport as a fan of Patrick O'Brian, I'd love to see this list.
Joël FranušićMay 25
This is a fascinating article that, in my opinion, indirectly addresses why Nintendo makes such good games: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
Why Japanese companies do so many different things

The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

David Oks
Show threadJoël FranušićMay 25
@akkartik I'm closer to your meaning, but to me "just text" implies printable ASCII.
Joël FranušićMay 23
Bromeio and Juliet
Show threadJoël FranušićMay 13
@feorlen that's what I've done in the past too, but in this case the string was sitting in a JSON file which (for reasons I understand and still find annoying) doesn't support comments, where I'd usually put the "ruler" like you do.
Show threadJoël FranušićMay 13
So anyway, I came up with my own type and named it a "franustring" because I think it's a funny play on my last name: https://gist.github.com/jpf/90ed38013790941ac14ea621bee109c1
franustring.py

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Show threadJoël FranušićMay 13
I recently ran into an issue where a test was incorrectly failing because a test string that was supposed to be 255 characters long was actually 257 characters long. The string was just the repeated letter "a" and so there was no way to eyeball the string and see if it was the right length. I thought that surely someone had come up with a type of "self measuring string" before ... but it doesn't appear so?