Got my PlayDate at the end of last week and spent the weekend working up a Blackjack game for it. This is my first time working in Lua, plus it’s a new platform, so there’s been a lot of learning.
If there’s any single takeaway so far, it’s that this platform is just so fun.
Was growing ever more frustrated by TimeMachine and mdsync slowing down my computer. Today I found Time Machine Editor, which lets you block out times that you don’t want TimeMachine to run. So now my computer isn’t going crazy for 15 minutes of every hour. Much better.
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.
Incredible.
Grand Seiko Snowflake. Finally got to see one in person. Incredible.
The older I get, the more common this experience becomes: finding that I am simply unable to read essays and articles on certain topics. I may, out of a sense of duty, begin to read something on these topics, but almost immediately my eyes begin to wander, or to glaze over. I strive to refocus; I re-read the same few sentences; but before long my mind has wandered elsewhere. Eventually I give up.
Me too.
This footage of a tornado in Andover, KS is one of the most amazing pieces of footage you’ll ever see.
Photos of the debris left over from the Mars Perseverence landing, taken by the Ingenuity helicopter. Amazing!
I wonder what would happen if players had to call their own fouls in NBA games, like we did at recess growing up.
Read this post today on Kottke, which is mostly commentary around this twitter thread.
One quote toward the end stood out:
The idea that we can live with Covid WITHOUT any mitigation measures and expect things to turn out ok (both for individuals and as a society) is a lie.
The thing is, we have the best mitigation measure we can get: vaccines. It isn’t going to get better than this, and human beings have already stretched themselves as far as is possible with quarantines and the like.
SARS-Cov-2 is here to stay. Get vaccinated, and get back to life.
Another great Twitter thread, this one about how Hall Thrusters work.
This is an absolutely magnificent thread by Yishan Wong on the challenges faced by anyone who wants to run a large social platform of any kind (or wants to pass regulation).
Bottom line: the Problem is Human Nature.
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites | Florin Lipan lipanski.com
Posts like this really make me think containers are The Way, but there’re still so many limitations around tooling and experience. I’m looking forward to the day when that’s all in the past.
Been working near/with Terraform at work lately, and while I understand what it’s doing in the end, I still haven’t wrapped my head around how it gets that done.