Male software craftswoman — Head of Software Engineering at Kraken Technologies — @codeinthehole@mastodon.social — @codeinthehole.bsky.social
Joined January 2009
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15 Aug 2018
On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.
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28 Oct 2024
This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back
28 Oct 2024
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27 Oct 2024
Writes and Write-Nots: paulgraham.com/writes.html
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13 Oct 2024
Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from @simonw) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass.
codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-t…
This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.
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6 Oct 2024
She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.
6 Oct 2024
Confirmation from sources now that Sue Gray is resigning
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2 Oct 2024
Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji.
cc @NotionHQ
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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz331twi
ALT I was really annoyed the other day when the staff at the Odeon cinema said that they wouldn't accept a £5o note when I was paying for my pick 'n' mix. In the end I has to pay with two twenties and a ten. Gustav Fox, Haggerston
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17 Jul 2024
On TikTok there is AdjusterTok, where work from home insurance agents video their side of calls explaining how car insurance works to irritated people, and it’s quite sobering stuff. People don’t really know what insurance is, it’s just some magical thing to make stuff better.
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7 Jul 2024
Where are the racists now????
Probably still celebrating!!!! 🏴
#EURO2024
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28 Jun 2024
Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place:
til.codeinthehole.com/posts/…
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24 Jun 2024
Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook...
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16 May 2024
Beware when using the 💋 emoji reaction to reference the KISS principle. Can be misinterpretted.
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12 May 2024
Andrea Cohen
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29 Apr 2024
This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded (paulgraham.com/mod.html), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.
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24 Apr 2024
Is anyone working a system for federating custom emoji between systems? I need Notion and Slack to share the same set.
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23 Apr 2024
To be a good writer, you have to be annoyed by bad writing. You're unlikely to get your first drafts exactly right, and unless you're annoyed by what you got wrong, you won't fix it.
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11 Apr 2024
Today's bug bear: newline characters:
⛔ Don't use them to add whitespace between paragraphs (adjust your tool's paragraph spacing value if you need to do this).
🟢 Do use them to break up your almost-always-too-long paragraphs.
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