Lol yeah can only imagine what playing ‘hunt the bad device’ would’ve been like back when those boxes had actual fuses on them. (That’s the game where the main circuit breaker gets tripped and you have to figure out first what ring it’s on, and then which specific item is tripping it)

No fuses in the switch box though, it’s a box of circuits breakers

Rust is brilliant for cli tools, which have the benefit you can usually make something useful to scratch an itch without it exploding in scope. Might be a better place to start than yaca…

I never saw such a potent combination of gender politics and prolog

This explains so much about my guts

Even the camel/snake case renaming can be handled with the right regex, but dynamic identifiers are a mortal enemy. I remember the first time I came across a rails codebase… shudder

Trial and error, oh my God yes. So much error. Such a trial. But also try to pay attention to detail… If something seems to generally work but then doesn’t for this one case, it might be completely broken and just spitting out plausible stuff the rest of the time. But anyway yeah, you’ve got the spirit.

Hey, there are two rust ones, check yerself. But the Gopher logo is pretty well known around these parts

Well Grails didn’t stick around for long, but Gradle was only available with Groovy for many years before they added Kotlin support.

Nobody’s assuming Groovy these days then 😂

'spose that’s true enough

This is why I like strong type systems with exhaustivity checks

Apparently they can’t read their own survey results because DevEx is clearly the highest paid category there but they think it’s SRE and cloud

I never got the impression Michelle even wanted to run, and frankly I’m not impressed by the notion that the best candidate was a wife of a previous victor. Didn’t work out terribly well last time, and not actually particularly great credentials on their own

Bring back political executions! I can see no downsides!

Let me know how the film was, I haven’t seen that one!

Mulleins always make me think of triffids with how huge they get

I know you’re playing the straight man to a joke, but actually you can apply a linter, then tell GitHub to ignore the implied ownership history for the purposes of blame from that reclining pr. All such prs are massive and yet by virtue of the replayability of the linter it’s also very easy to ensure errors didn’t slip in when reviewing.

I know the original comment was about renaming all the variables, but that’s obviously deliberately absurd, so I’m using here a completely realistic example instead.

Yeah but I bet you do it sometimes on your own pull requests even after you’ve opened them don’t you?

Plenty of my real friends are people I used to work with back before I was married and stopped getting as much out of this sort of culture… There doesn’t need to be some hard line here - just because you work with people doesn’t mean you can’t be friends