Reverse engineering SkiFree

Gosh, I played this game so much as a kid. Great read. Can’t help but think it should be a blog post somewhere, though.

I think I finally figured out the source of one of my frustrations of setting up a complicated test context, like I’m trying to do for a project I’m currently working on, is that we spend all this effort in our codebase being sure that objects can only be created via our complicated logic paths (i.e. Service Objects, etc). But then for the test we go and manually set all this stuff up again. What I really want to do is setup my test context via the exact same code paths that will be used in production to set them up, so I get all the same side effects.

And I want the tests to be fast.

What a crazy bug.

Adoration of Moloch permeates the country, imposing a hushed silence as he works his will. One cannot question his rites, even as the blood is gushing through the idol’s teeth.

Our Moloch, by Garry Wills

Most days Docker really feels like a tremendous step backward for software development.

Came across this library, via the GitHub command line tool, that offers support for in-terminal progress spinner style UI. The list of characters is this list is great, and useful for snagging into my own libraries.

Turns out influenza still sucks.

What an absolutely horrific end to the Suns season. Abysmal.

I recently wrote about how we sped up our CI pipeline at CompanyCam by over 4x.

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

Incredible.

Alan Jacobs on “the speed of God.”

Grand Seiko Snowflake. Finally got to see one in person. Incredible.