When you stop looking for bugs you can honestly say you haven’t found any. That’s how how the pandemic ended.

I can’t decide who’s more likely to buy this (if it were new): current me out of nostalgia for a pretty good OS, or 1995 me went to Incredible Universe on release day to buy Windows 95.

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I did only more often. Plus it was back when the conventional wisdom was that 50% of source code should be comments. So there was a LOT.

Just say your profanities aloud and don’t let them make it to version control.

In the first major software system I designed and helped build I was a little too open in my comments. For years after that software had entered sunset I’d still get Slack pings along the lines of: “This looks like a Maximum Derek comment: …” They were all diatribes about whatever was giving me grief when I was writing the code and they would all look perfectly at home in the script for 48 Hours (minus the racial or sexuality slurs).

In my defense we were working with PHP 5.3 at the time.

Worth it if I never have to negotiate another colo contract or have to spec new servers 9 months in advance ever again.

No, just an early 90’s toy commercial. Which is probably a video genre of it’s own.

Whatever the Tiger 2-XL was “programmed” in, it’s the best.

I used to think Javascript was hell when I barely used it. Now I have to build with it regularly and… once in a while I’m just right about things.

tar -tvf is a favorite of mine.

If I had known that in college I might have gotten an actual STD.

I have a slightly higher appreciation for recursive acronyms now.

Looks like a pretty good one but I’ve been psychologically conditioned my whole life to reject umbrellas.

Dave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn’t provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in “You Really Got Me”… but a year later they could.

My son GIGO never quite meets expectations.

3 buttons (not counting the one it’ll be aimed at). Would they be :, q, and enter?

Thank you for explaining the joke.

I mean, my IDE highlights all the TODO’s in yellow. I don’t know how we could possibly make it any less error prone.

Isn’t this pretty much what happened with the LIDAR on the most recent commercial moon lander?

It’s a decent general purpose data formatter (like “convert this giant json to yaml”) but there are other ways to do that.

It’s ok at being able to ask questions of documentation, as long as you don’t take anything at face value. Really if you understand 90% of something its not bad at giving you the missing 10%. And it makes me a bit faster when I go back to bash, the anti-bicycle, after a break.

And I find myself not writing as many IDE snippets because AI is good at super repetitive stuff like, “wrap this promise in an async function.” That’s not the best example but it’s what I could think of quickly.

Stop observing.

They’ve been trying to remain DST, but you need federal approval, and some states have been waiting a decade or longer for that. States can stay standard time on their own accord.