On this day, in 1915, the U.S. invades and takes over Haiti: overcast.fm/+Yo39oJQ8… 🎙
Whee! Backticks in tweets get translated to code blocks when loaded by Slack.
Unfortunately for me, qr<> is valid Perl, but it gives you a reference to a regex; it does not perform a match.
I’ve been away from Perl for too long. Was trying to use qr<>xms instead of m<>xms.
Ruby: %q<>, Perl: q<>
Ruby: %Q<>, Perl: qq<>
Ruby: %w<>, Perl: qw<>
Ruby: %r<>, Perl: NOT qr<>, but m<>
Line of JavaScript I wrote today:
container.innerHTML = container.innerHTML;
The container is an <svg> tag that I’ve filled in from scratch via DOM manipulation. Firefox v90 won’t render any of it without that statement.
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Always a weird feeling when you do a significant refactoring and all the tests pass on the first run afterwards.
Parallel correlated subqueries make for some insane looking code.
Database design tip: instead of a boolean column, use a nullable timestamp. This way you get your boolean value, plus the time when you set it.
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Write failing test.
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Spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how to implement the feature being tested.
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Decide that the test is not complicated enough.
<blink> and <marquee> eat your heart out. https://twitter.com/bzamayo/status/1405882986072051725
“Another Biafra sticker!"
Shortcuts on Mac? Pffft. I want Terminal on iPhone.
… if you are a telecom executive or regulator in the United States, […] Starlink […] is a sign that reads YOU FUCKED UP AND EVERYONE HATES YOU. Read the sign. This is your fault.
Using mass nouns in APIs is a bit of a pain. Ah, the fun of translating inconsistent English into a consistent, discoverable scheme of REST endpoints.
Happy Hindenburg day!
Lately I’ve been using “update" instead of “upgrade” in commit messages, etc. because I want to say “this is newer” instead of necessarily saying “this is better”. I might actually being making things worse.
Playing Cozy Grove reminds me of reading PJF’s foraging tweets.
One more step down the road to a Web monoculture: tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/t…
Firefox is going to start trimming cross-origin “Referer” headers: blog.mozilla.org/security/…
I would prefer that they drop support for it entirely, but it’s a start.