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And that makes it the third time this week that I encountered a bug involving DynamoDB that was avoidable with a unit test that actually used a proper database.
(To be fair, this time is was my fault: I haven’t got around to writing the unit test yet).
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I wish Ghost allowed readers to choose a different email address to send newsletters, rather than just send them to the email address associated with the account itself. I’ve got news for you: send reading material to my personal inbox and I’ll never see it. That’s just not where I read stuff: it’s all in Feedbin.
Even better would be a private RSS feed. I know Gruber had issues with doing way back during the Google Reader days. But those days are gone, so it might be worth trying this again. Seems to work for Stratechery.
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For the last few years, I’ve been using 4/24 as the expiry date of test credit cards within Stripe. Well those days are literally in the past now.
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UCL: Breaking And Continuation
I’ve started trying to integrate UCL into a second tool: Dynamo Browse. And so far it’s proving to be a little difficult. The problem is that this will be replacing a dumb string splitter, with command handlers that are currently returning a tea.Msg type that change the UI in some way.
UCL builtin handlers return a
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I’d be curious to know why Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory to “Entra.” That name is… not good.
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👨💻 New post on Databases over at the Coding Bits blog: Counting In DynamoDB
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After a two month hiatus, the coffee booth at the station has reopened. All is well in the world once more. ☕😵💫
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Day 29: drift
Drifted a little from the path at this point of my hike today. Could be easy to get lost though, so it was important not to drift too far. #mbapr
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Manual Moreale hit the nail on the head with this quote from his latest post:
The web is not dying. The web is huge. The web is ever-expanding. The fact that the web is just the same 5 big websites is a fucking lie. It’s like saying the restaurant industry is the same 5 fast food chains. It is not. It’s up to you to decide to stop visiting those 5 sites and stop ingesting their fast food content.
It feels like when these people say “the web”, they mean “whatever platform I’m addicted to.” Might be time they started trying out that URL bar that appears at the top of every browser.
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👨💻 New post on Go over at the Coding Bits blog: Custom Import Paths In Go
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Day 27: surprise
Quite surprised that this photo came out as well as it did. Was purely an accidental press of the shutter button. #mbapr
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Interesting to see Google starting to solicit reviews for apps that came with the phone, such as the… Phone.
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Igore the click-batey headline: this is quite a good post. Really enjoyed it. And, on the whole, I agree with the author. Via Jim Nielsen’s notes
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Day 26: critter
Watch out for these ones. #mbapr
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UCL: The Simplifications Paid Off
The UCL simplifications have been implemented, and they seem to be largely successful.
Ripped out all the streaming types, and changed pipes to simply pass the result of the left command as first argument of the right.
"Hello" | echo ", world" --> "Hello, world"This has dramatically improved the use of pipes. Previously, pipes could only be used to connect streams. But now, with pretty much anything flowing through a pipe, that list of commands has extended to pretty much every builtins and user-defined procs. Furthermore, a command no longer needs to know that it’s being used in a pipeline: whatever flows through the pipe is passed transparently via the first argument to the function call. This has made pipes more useful, and usable in more situations.
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Thou Doth Promote Too Much
Manual Moreale wrote an interesting post about self promotion, where he reflects on whether closing out all his People and Blogs post with a line pointing to his Ko-Fi page is too much:
And so I added that single line. But adding that single line was a struggle. Because in my head, it’s obvious that if you do enjoy something and are willing to support it, you’d probably go look for a way to do it. That’s how my brain works. But unfortunately, that’s not how the internet works. Apparently, the correct approach seems to be the opposite one. You have to constantly remind people to like and subscribe, to support, to contribute, and to share.
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Some emus have moved into a nearby sanctuary a few weeks ago. I managed to catch a glimpse of one during my walk today. A rare treat indeed.
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I was snakily going to suggest a “HTML naked day” to complement both CSS and JS naked day, but then I realise that that’s the default for all modern web frontend development. 😏
