Posts from January 2023
- (https://b-ark.ca/eGsie4)
A fantastic piece on the epidemic of workaholism and the shifts that have occurred over the past two years. There’s still a long way to go, but maybe it’s a start.
- (https://b-ark.ca/CiYEcS)
How have I only just learned of Hyrum’s Law:
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
To wit: We had an internal API between two components. At one point, as part of a perf optimization, the ordering of the data changed. Well, the other component was relying on that ordering. Oops!
- (https://b-ark.ca/s_4U2k)
That feeling when you put something off, and put something off, and then finally step up to the task, bear down, and… finish it in twenty minutes.
- (https://b-ark.ca/gGK8IW)
“There’s no way I’m that much more fit,” I thought to myself as Zwift indicated an increase in grade while I seemed to feel nothing. Restart trainer. Reconnect. Start again. “Oh. Oh no…”
- (https://b-ark.ca/_0GmKk)
Gotta say I’m really glad I moved back to buying and hosting my own music. I send more money to artists, and I never have to wonder what might happen to my collection. And Navidrome + Symfonium is a killer combo!
