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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Code reviews are important. Unfortunately, no-test-text guy convinced his whole team that he was right, and I wasn’t able to block it. I’d scheduled a meeting to try to get the wider org to adopt a more sensible standard, but then there was a mass layoff 🤷

    The other guy with the bad messages is at a tiny startup where they’ve laid off almost everyone, and the other 2 guys don’t want to make waves. The CEO is big on “just ship it” (and also “why are there bugs in production? this is unacceptable!!”)




  • Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. I think speed and accuracy of reading is also pretty low (I read like 80 wpm and 80% accuracy somewhere, but i couldn’t immediately find a good source for that).

    If you’re on a text forum like this you’re probably well above the average person, and your experiences are not universal.

    That said, I don’t have any data on hand about readability so you could be right. I’m sure people have studied it.



  • I’ve worked with a few people who are just incomprehensible. One refuses to write commit messages of any detail. Just “work in progress”. Cast him into the pit.

    There was another guy that refused to name his tests. His code was like

    describe(''. () => {
      it('', () => {
         expect(someFunc()).toEqual(0);
      }
     it('', () => {
        expect(someFunc(1)).toEqual(0);
      }
     it('', () => {
       expect(someFunc("").toEqual(1);
     }
    }
    

    He was like, “Test names are like comments and they turn into lies! So I’m not going to do it.”

    I was like, a. what the fuck. b. do you also not name your files? projects? children?

    He was working at a very big company last I heard.

    edit: If you’re unfamiliar, the convention is to put a human readable description where those empty strings are. This is used in the test output. If one fails, it’ll typically tell include the name in the output.









  • I rarely use a cart anymore because I do more frequent, shorter, trips and just bring a tote bag. But the other day I went with someone to a store and we used a cart. I returned it to the cart return place and she was like “good. You can learn a lot about someone by what they do with the cart”







  • Is this an age thing? I’m about 40 and I never had instagram, barely used facebook, and didn’t use any others really. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem where someone backed out because I didn’t have instagram. But I also don’t have a big group of casual friends, and maybe that would be harder.

    Discord sucks, but I’ve noticed a lot of social groups use it. A couple meetups I go to all use it for communication. Maybe that’s more bearable than instagram?