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samir, actually the xkcd top hat guy
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@mayintoronto Very wise, it’s the only way to be sure.
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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1d ago
@mayintoronto Hmmm, so there’s a 68.6% chance you’ve answered my question?
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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2d ago
@jonny Sounds right to me. I have made a career out of actually reading error messages when my colleagues do not.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @thirstybear @tdpauw @mrksdck Steve and Nat are here, we can always ask them directly. ^_^
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3d ago
@thirstybear @tdpauw @mrksdck I work in the team formerly known as the “DevOps team”. I am so glad it’s changed.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @thirstybear @tdpauw @mrksdck I’m hesitant to couple tests to the DB like this, even when it’s a really fast DB, but I can definitely agree that it’s not subject to the same failures as e.g. a bazillion WebDriver tests.
I’ve done it myself with PostgreSQL in two previous jobs (though TBF, this was on integration layers; effectively very large “adapters” in ports+adapters parlance). There’s a flag to disable fsync which is really dangerous in production but great for testing.
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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3d ago
@tdpauw @thirstybear @mrksdck IIRC this is just another corruption of a useful role/term (just like “Agile”, “DevOps”, etc.). SDETs were never supposed to write tests! They were supposed to maintain test infrastructure, provide guidance and examples, and make it easy for other engineers to write good tests.
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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4d ago
@mrksdck @tdpauw I’m a big fan of high-level “fast” tests that do everything in memory, stubbing out the ports+adapters but not testing individual classes/functions. My problem with a lot of these fully-E2E tests is that they’re slow and flaky!
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Apr 10, 2026
I will never understand why we looked at modern programming, saw that there is a good bit, which is programming, and a bad bit, which is code review… and decided to automate the good bit at the expense of having to do a lot more of the bad bit.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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Apr 07, 2026
Desperately hoping this is yet another insider trading scam and nothing will come of it, except making some stupidly rich people a little richer.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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Apr 07, 2026
I think I will skip CSS Naked Day this year. I am not writing anyway, and it’s a static site so unfortunately it’s a bit of legwork on each end.
I would encourage you to join though, because it’s cool!
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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Apr 06, 2026
I like to drink drink drink
all the caipirinhas
I like to drink drink drink
all the caipirinhas
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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Apr 06, 2026
@jonny That’s a damn strong start.
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Apr 01, 2026
You gotta read this whole thread. Don’t drink coffee at the same time.
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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Mar 31, 2026
Alright trans friends, I got paid, who wants a pizza?
[Edit: done. Cis friends, buy pizzas. Don’t boost this, post your own.]
First trans person to shout at me with payment details gets 20€. (Not in North America, sorry, transferring money to you is impossible and also there are plenty of North Americans who should be throwing money at you instead.)
I know it’s not much but maybe it shows that someone cares a bit.
(If you are not trans and have money, buy a pizza for a trans friend plz.)
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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Mar 12, 2026
@malwaretech Love how it signs off with a cat butt. That has to make you feel good.
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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Feb 12, 2026
I think the thing that makes me saddest about this whole “use an LLM to generate code” thing is that many of my heroes are no longer my heroes.
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samir, actually the xkcd top hat guy
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.
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