This happens when I outsource reading the docs to AI agents.

wait… there was a function for that? Why did you tell me to build this house of cards

It was 900mb raw and compressed to 1.6mb after cleaning.

That’s how much junk data there was.

Combing through that log is the only way to prove and identify where a big was introduced so I can fix it.

You’ll miss out on some primo maple syrup

Most recently:

I had to parse an html table with a column of printed python dictionaries, the dicts wrapped a mixed delimiter list of SQL statements of various types.

It’s truly an abomination.

I’ve never had to use pythons AST module to parse data before…

Yeah, they’re about pakled intelligence now.

Is that the new ifixit one?

No, it’s one of the few use cases of emacs.

Stuff like openWRT routers get a pass.

If it has a local host API I would use it because it never has to connect to the internet.

Anything in my house smarter than the IKEA remote control light switch gets crushed with a hammer.

I’m mostly joking, but most of what I code lately is integrations and data tools where 90% of the thing is configuration and lining up different tools.

It’s a lot of load data form yaml, build json, throw that into a tool and the build a report kind of glue. I’ll use pydantic and stuff where it makes sense, but I’ve been spending a lot of time lately between lua and python and javascript.

I used to do more system and engineering stuff which actually required a lot of planning, but that’s just not what has paid the bills for me the last few years.

but we still get that tech debt sprint?

And halfway interesting means beyond a medium blog written by someone with 3 months experience trying to pad their resume, and not following standards beyond default linting rules at all

Lately my approach to dev is “I don’t care about your language feautures, I’m going to treat it like lua and just stuff objects with data and write bare functions to process them”

Unless I need to engineer something complex, everything is dict[any:any].

I’m sure you’ll get a sprint to clean up the tech debt and a pizza party. Management promised!

That takes me back

I’ve been party to dumping legacy systems and lift & shifts a few times.

Good fucking luck.

Knowing nothign about this, a project like this would take at least 2 years even if you are dropping a ton of use cases and dependencies.

I’ve been trying to pair down my extensions, so I’ve been using ale’s fixers to do formatting.

I’m not a huge fan though, I’ll probably go back to vim auto format.

The first symptoms include talking about dots and arrows with no interest in archery, and discussing associativity despite not associating with friends.

Advanced symptoms include casually perusing the Wikipedia List of Lists and Category of Categories pages.

That History section is exactly what happened to me

I’ll have to see if there’s a nvim equivalent, or if I can make my own

I used to have my vim set up to trim excess whitespace on write.

I had no idea how many errant diff’s that would generate, I had to turn it off.