J. B. Rainsberger (he)

A programmer's act of love: documenting and reporting an apparent defect in painstaking detail, then removing as many superfluous words as possible.

I highly _highly_ recommend this interview. It's long. Very long. Feature-film length.

Even so, I love Dr Hassan's emphasis on what works when trying to help folks out of harmful beliefs, rather than what makes one feel superior over them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UlvAUByG3A

Rudimentary TDD in #jq/#jaq:

1. Choose an input; make a text file for it.
2. Figure out the expected output; make a text file for it.
3. `diff expected.txt =(cat input.txt | jaq -L "lib" 'main_filter')`

It seems like real work to run multiple tests together, but this is a start.

I'm _trying_ to trust the process, I really am, but someone in there is getting in the way...

@jbrains@substack.com

If you love the idea of agents over human workers, then you might need to read Deci's _Why We Do What We Do_.

And no: don't ask an agent to summarize it for you.

If we all chose to treat deadlines as an act of love, we could transform the world.

No, really.

http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/deadlines-as-an-act-of-love

"When am I going to use this (math-related concepts) in real life?"

Why do those amounts not balance? The difference is a multiple of 9. Aha! Digit transposition, probably...

...found it.

Having grown accustomed to "yank name" and "yank path" in #ranger, I find myself wishing this behavior were available in #hledger (hledger-ui), too! ;)