jasonpeacock

I got started with QBasic, but really it was Hypercard that showed me the power of programming when I built a multi-media presentation that included laser disc cut-scenes for a school project. Hyperca…

Which is exactly my closing argument :)

Have you looked at Plumbumm for Python? It handles everything you just mentioned: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ There's no reason not to use Python to achie…

Bash is proper programming language, though not necessarily modern nor ergonomic. The problem is: 1. Bash is assumed to be everywhere, so people use it for maximum portability or bootstrapping. 2. It …

Yes! So much yes. Many developers write crappy Bash scripts because they don't see it as a real language, but it's an interpreted language just like Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you're g…

This is a JIRA management failure - why is the same workflow being imposed on different teams? Either the company has agreed that all teams will follow the same workflow, then you do as described abov…

^this. You get what you measure. To design a better issue tracker, figure out what you need to measure for success and then design a tool to measure that track changes that drive improvements in those…

> But Python encourages the direct opposite - writing long files of code to avoid introducing too many "modules" and this is a debilitating headache. How does Python encourage mega-files?…

One of the chipped routers is still available: https://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-WR703N-Wireless-iphone4-... …

Note - the Github project hasn't been updated in 6yrs.

By this argument, chemists should never wash glassware. Keep re-using it until it's too dirty, then through it out and make new beakers. Your tools affect the quality of your work. Work with shit…

And yet everyday you (and everyone else) get in a car with much higher risk of death. Why the double standard for experimental space fight?

Owning production systems means you can't make mistakes and break things. People are already doing what you're saying can't be done, everyday, when they change production systems. He&#x…

It's already here: https://www.wired.com/story/the-sideways-elevator-of-the-fut... …

Checkout TOML for a standard config that does just that.

I love your blog, stumbled across it a while ago. But I do need to mention that there are multiple McD's in Morocco, having been to them myself when I visited :) http://www.mcdonalds.m…

Lightweight cotton gloves :) Put them on, do all your materials handling, and be done.

Aha. Thanks! I understand better now, I didn't realize it was so general-purpose :)

I'm probably being dense, but I don't see a good description of the input data types supported - the CLI says "json or python". It would be great to have clarification if this is J…

From What Can't I Build? , this isn't "code-free programming", rather it's code-free web app building. It's still very powerful but not the same thing as coding. &qu…

Don't multitask. I work a task until blocked, then switch. Work the next one until blocked, then switch again. You'll be surprised at how much you can deliver when you focus on delivering on…

Have you noticed that some movies are only available at AMC theaters, or Cinemark, or Cineworld theaters? Lockdown on content (from distributors to theaters) has been around a long time, this is nothi…

That's what code reviews are for, to help developers check each other for things that cannot be automatically linted.

Amen. Bragging about having a large repo is showing the world that you can't design large software systems. Just like creating branches in Git is cheap, creating repos in Git is just as cheap. Th…

There are way too many problems to perform rote memorization. Maybe that's the approach one takes when practicing, but hopefully they are seeing the pattern and learning algorithms to apply to so…

I don't follow - how is the relative rarity better than absolute frequency? What really matters is how common your password is - not how highly it's ranked in a compromised password list, wh…

Anyone who is serious about securing their keys is not going to rely on security through obscurity. Any good design should be able to withstand public scrutiny.

Amen. I drank from a "clean" mountain stream next to my campsite on a weekend trip, then the next day I noticed there was dead mouse upstream. Don't know if the dead mouse was the direc…

Parks are not free - they're supported by taxpayers.

Yes, I wish more companies took this approach. It can easily be planned for and scheduled appropriately - you know how much time everyone has remaining. And disabling system access is good - they shou…