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Bit of a breakthrough with a project I’m on at work today. Amazing how quickly you can go from having absolutely nothing working, to having it work for the first time, to everyone expecting it to work reliably from that point on. It took probably an hour for us to experience all three phases.
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Dealing with a reporting task at the moment, and all the shortcuts I’ve made over the course of working on this system are coming back to bite me. But it’s easy to say that I wouldn’t have made them that if I were to do it all again. If faced with the same level of knowledge and time pressure as I had back then, I probably would take those shortcuts again. I guess the only think I can hope for is to recognise future shortcuts as what they are, and try to avoid them if I can.
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A Tour Of My New Self-Hosted Code Setup
While working on the draft for this post, a quote from Seinfield came to mind which I thought was a quite apt description of this little project: Breaking up is knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times and then it goes over. I’ve been thinking about “breaking up” with Github on and off for a while now. Continue reading →
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Work offered us a very… American style lunch today. First time I had bacon with my pancakes. Honestly, not as bad as I was expecting.
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👨💻 New post on Moan-routine over at Coding Bits: Zerolog’s API Mistake
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Zerolog’s API Mistake
I’ll be honest, I was expecting a lot more moan-routine posts than I’ve written to date. Guess I’ve been in a positive mood. That is, until I started using Zerolog again this morning. Zerolog is a Go logging package that we use at work. It’s pretty successful, and all in all a good logger. But they made a fundamental mistake in their API which trips me up from time to time: they’re not consistent with their return types. Continue reading →
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Got a long post written that I wanted to publish today. But I need to add the audio narration to it, and my voice is just not working this evening. So I’m going to have to hold it for a bit longer. A shame, but if a day late means a better overall post, it might be worth it in the end.
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The gym has discovered they have a heater, which is immensely welcomed, because wearing shorts and a T-shirt in weather that’s barely 16°C is not fun (and this is the warmest it’s been in weeks). 🥶
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An interesting tale on how
.DS_Store— a regular in Git ignore files everywhere — got its name.Via @Burk within the Hemispheric Views Discord.
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Woke up with this tune in my head this morning. Managed to record it before I forgot it, then I added some accompaniments. I’ve called it Prophet, after the synth. It’s a decent start but I’m not sure how to continue it from this point on.
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Woke up with this tune in my head this morning. Managed to record it before I forgot it, then I added some accompaniments. I’ve called it Prophet, after the synth. It’s a decent start but I’m not sure how to continue it from this point on.
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Added the final pieces of my self-hosted Forgejo instance this morning: a MacOS runner, and daily backups. I think we’re finally ready to start using it for current projects now.
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A Bit of 'Illuminating' Computer Humour
Here’s some more computer-related humour to round out the week: How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one. How many software developers does it take to change 2 lightbulbs? Just 10. How many software developers does it take to change 7 lightbulbs? One, but everyone within earshot will know about it. How many software developers does it take to change 32 lightbulbs? Just one, provided the space is there. Continue reading →
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Just bought Crystal Caves HD from GoG. This might be the best $4.00 I spend today. 💎
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Mark the date. First successful CI/CD run of a Go project running on my own Forgejo instance, running in Hetzner. 🙌
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Some day, I’ll be working on a task I’d be pressured to get finished right then and there, and no one will be messaging me while I’m doing it. Today was not that day. 👨💻📳
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Last night, I setup a Linode server to try out Forgejo. The setup went smoothly, and I managed to get Forgejo up and running, but the setup is a little expensive: around ~$18.00 AUD for a 2 GB server with 50 GB storage. So I’m going to try out Hetzner. I should, in theory, be able to get two servers — one for the frontend, and one as a CI/CD worker — both with twice as much RAM, plus a 50 GB volume for around ~$17.00 AUD.
The only downside is that the servers are further away: Falkenstein, Germany; rather than Sydney (I can’t be the only one that wishes the speed of light was faster). We’ll see how much the latency’s going to annoy me.
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Ok, going to try out Forgejo for self-hosting my code. Got through the hardest part, which was paying for a Linux VPS (with backups enabled) and I’ll start with some old repositories that I won’t feel bad loosing. But if it all works out, I’ll use it as my replacement for Github. Wish me luck. 🤞
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I’m enjoying the special guests on Downstream… but I do miss Julia. I mean, I’m super happy for her career advancement which led to her departure, but she and Jason were a great podcasting duo. But it’s fine, the special guests are great too. Currently listening to the episode with Tim Goodman.
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I wish more podcasters know what a double-ended podcast is. Having Zoom’s compression algorithm garble your most important point is not a great listening experience. If you’re just starting off, or if you have a guest, that I understand. But if you’ve been doing this for years as part of your job? 🫤
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There are times where I wish Go had Python-like tuples, but I think the decision to keep them out of the language is a good one. I feel like it’s easy for people to overuse these types of tuples, instead of coming up with new dedicated types. Go isn’t completely immune from this — I’ve seen some functions returning slices of slices of strings — but it does try to encourage writing code with many different types, each one with a narrow use case. The fact that this is found both in the culture and in the language itself (e.g. anonymous structs) is a good thing.
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A university text-book author walks into a bar. The punchline is left as an exercise for the reader.
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A QA walks into a bar, crawls into a bar, flys into a bar; and orders: a beer, 2 beers, 0 beers, -1 beers, then walks out saying “Test complete.” Meanwhile, a software developer asked to do QA walks into a bar and says “I didn’t fall down walking in. Test complete.”
