sanityinc

sanityinc, 2 days ago to Software

Can you teach "taste" in #software design? I'm not sure I can, but I know it when I see it (or fail to).

sanityinc, 6 days ago to cycling

Mulling getting back into #cycling after many years away from it, but the idea of throwing several thousand euros at a decent bike is harshing the buzz. Still have a 1998 racer with Dura-Ace that got a dinged frame when a car knocked me off and broke my foot in 2015, the last time I rode.

vwbusguy, 7 days ago to random

Doctors: "Make sure you arrive before your appointment time"

Also Doctors: Makes you wait for 20-60 minutes after your appointment time

chris__martin, 9 days ago to random

Thread of blurry photos across America. Amtrak journey begins, just outside of Whitefish.

nathanlovestrees, 10 days ago to random

Egret! At the Riparian Zone

#BirdCallout

sanityinc, 14 days ago to random

There's no such thing as progress in #taichi / #qigong without your mind also getting rewired and transformed, but the mind-body aspects don't cause changes in each other. They just both change and blur together.

sanityinc, 15 days ago to random

Sad to see the #Nix Foundation drive out (or at least fail to retain) one of the top project contributors. Keeping excellent people engaged in a healthy, supportive OSS community is more key to long-term success than having events sponsored by any particular organisation IMO. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/306702

sanityinc, 16 days ago to random

Hot take: yes, many software engineers write terrible commit messages, but the "Conventional Commits" rules are no help at all.

What is? Valuing clear writing, and caring about your collaborators.

("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Emerson)

chris__martin, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

What's a good watch if I want it to be reliable, not require battery changing, not be stupidly huge, and be only as expensive as necessary for quality reason and not just for the sake of impressing anybody or pretending it's some kind of investment? I do not ever intend to submerge it in water (what the hell) but do often get dirty. A second hand is a must and noise is intolerable.

sanityinc, 25 days ago to random

I wonder if @bagder is aware that millions of Garmin users are carrying a #curl licence credit on their wrists

ElleGray, 25 days ago to random

the UK brexiting itself right off the planet

sanityinc, 25 days ago to random

Helped a big-brained colleague solve a frustrating problem simply by hanging out on a call to provide moral support. A huge part of success in software work is calm determination and not getting demoralised or dopamine-starved.

vwbusguy, 27 days ago to random

Proposal: A way to support both mercurial and git with the same repository source. They're so close and it might help the initial learning curve for new developers if they could walk a bit with mercurial before having to run with git.

vwbusguy, 29 days ago to random

My first family computer was an Osborne One. Now, let me hear about yours.

vwbusguy, 1 month ago to random

Quick, someone register turbotatwitter.com and forward it to Mastodon

sanityinc, 1 month ago to PostgreSQL

Periodic #postgresql appreciation post for https://explain.dalibo.com/ — such a useful tool for visualising query plans!

kellogh, 1 month ago to random

The Attack Turkey

this morning on the run i got to the top of the hill and was resting, bc i'm out of shape, and off in the distance i see a bird trotting my way

as it gets closer i realize it's a turkey. it had a big red gobbler and its neck was iridescent. It was actually really pretty, so i just watched as it approached