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Beanie weather’s back, baby! 🌡️
Thought I’d celebrate by updating my avatar on Micro.blog.
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UCL: Procs and Higher-Order Functions
More on UCL yesterday evening. Biggest change is the introduction of user functions, called “procs” (same name used in TCL): proc greet { echo "Hello, world" } greet --> Hello, world Naturally, like most languages, these can accept arguments, which use the same block variable binding as the foreach loop: proc greet { |what| echo "Hello, " $what } greet "moon" --> Hello, moon The name is also optional, and if omitted, will actually make the function anonymous. Continue reading →
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Crashing Hemispheric Views #109: HAZCHEM
Okay, maybe not “crashing”, a.la Hey Dingus. But some thoughts did come to me while listening to Hemispheric Views #109: HAZCHEM that I’d though I share with others. Haircuts I’m sorry but I cannot disagree more. I don’t really want to talk while I’m getting a haircut. I mean I will if they’re striking up a conversation with me, but I’m generally not there to make new friends; just to get my hair cut quickly and go about my day. Continue reading →
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Pro tip: if you’re working with mocks, make sure they’re actually asserting the calls made to them. Otherwise, your buggy code will pass your buggy unit tests with flying colours, and you end up confused when it all falls down during QA verification.
Oh, um… this is all hypothetical, of course. 🤓
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👨💻 On the Coding Bits blog: Changing gRPC Schemas
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UCL: First Embed, and Optional Arguments
Came up with a name: Universal Control Language: UCL. See, you have TCL; but what if instead of being used for tools, it can be more universal? Sounds so much more… universal, am I right? 😀 Yeah, okay. It’s not a great name. But it’ll do for now. Anyway, I’ve started integrating this language with the admin tool I’m using at work. This tool I use is the impetus for this whole endeavour. Continue reading →
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Watched the MKBHD review of the Humane pin (the Streisand effect is real) and I must say, even if it worked perfectly, I’m not sure it’s for me. Something about having to wear it. Kind of conspicuous, no? Not to mention that it’s primarily a voice UI. I don’t even use the voice assistant on my phone.
I mean, credit to them for trying. But… nah, I’ll pass.
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Tool Command Language: Lists, Hashs, and Loops
A bit more on TCL (yes, yes, I’ve gotta change the name) last night. Added both lists and hashes to the language. These can be created using a literal syntax, which looks pretty much looks how I described it a few days ago: set list ["a" "b" "c"] set hash ["a":"1" "b":"2" "c":"3"] I had a bit of trouble working out the grammar for this, I first went with something that looked a little like the following, where the key of an element is optional but the value is mandatory: Continue reading →
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Pocket Cast should start tracking the number of times I tap the 30 seconds back button. It’s usually a good indication that I’m really engrossed in a particular show. That button sure got a lot of action this morning with today’s Stratechery and Dithering.
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On Micro.blog, Scribbles, And Multi-homing
I’ve been ask why I’m using Scribbles given that I’m here on Micro.blog. Honestly I wish I could say I’ve got a great answer. I like both services very much, and I have no plans of abandoning Micro.blog for Scribbles, or visa-versa. But I am planning to use both for writing stuff online, at least for now, and I suppose the best answer I can give is a combination of various emotions and hang-ups I have about what I want to write about, and where it should go. Continue reading →
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Went to Phone Phix and got my phone phixed. 🙃
Got the USB-C socket cleaned. Cost a bit but the USB-C plugs are staying in place now, so I call that a win.
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Love the new categories feature in Scribbles. Went back and added them to the posts on Coding Bits and Workpad. They look and feel great.
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Took a while to troubleshoot why my shell script wasn’t running in Keyboard Maestro. Turns out I needed to add
#!/bin/zsh -lto launch it with ZSH, with the-lswitch to read my zprofile dot file.<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/25293/2024/screenshot-2024-04-16-at-8.10.49am.png" width=“600” height=“310” alt=“Screenshot of a Keyboard Maestro “run shellscript” step with the hash-bang line set to /bin/zsh with the -l switch”>
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On it, their producer was lamenting not having somewhere to post a link to something being spoken about. No mention of show notes because I’m not convinced “big podcast” even knows they exist.
I’ve complained about this before and I haven’t seen any improvements. It’s as if the concept of making show-notes or even a website containing the links you mention on your podcast never cross these producers minds. That it’s perfectly okay to read URLs aloud and expect people to remember. It’s such an odd phenomenon.
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👨💻 On the Coding Bits blog: Go Unit Test Naming Conventions
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Backlog Proc: A Better JQL
Backlog Proc is a simple item backlog tracker I built for work. I’d like to link them to Jira tickets, so that I know whether a particular backlog item actually has tasks written for them, and what the status of each of those tasks are. I guess these are meant to be tracked by epics, but Jira’s UI for handling such things is a mess, and I’d like to make notes that are only for my own eyes. Continue reading →
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Seems like the signs of middle age for a Pixel phone is that the USB-C contacts lose their grippiness. I’ll have to get mine cleaned again. Finding my phone didn’t change overnight is not a great experience.
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Day 14: cactus
Okay, I admit that it’s quite a stretch to call this a cactus. I do think it’s some form of succulent, or at least a plant that’s suitable for hot, dry climates, so I’m going to go with it. #mbapr
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Mum found a bunch of tapes of us making radio shows when we were kids. I’m digitising them now using this radio, which is the only tape player available to me. Not pictured is the Nuc running Linux, recording the audio (forgot how painful dealing with Linux audio on the command line is).
