Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

The last post (at least for now) in my series on xfail is now live: "xfail and code coverage"
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/12/xfail-coverage.html

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RIP Baron Noodles von Pasta (a.k.a. Noodles)

We'll miss you buddy. 😿

@bagder An Easter egg that actually caused some problems that sound kinda annoying to debug: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/405783

`man -w` used to print `gimme gimme gimme` at 00:30, as a reference to the ABBA song.

Seems like that just caused someone's test suite to fail and not like a problem in production, but it is indicative of how unexpected behavior, even if a fun idea, might not be fun for all your users...

I don't particularly want to make friends with gym rats, but I don't know who else will understand all my gym rat memes.

@cnx I used a serrated knife to cut it in half along the short dimension, then a dremel to cut away the rectangular sections of the bone I removed.

Today's #science experiment with the boy: dissecting a turkey bone to see the marrow where new blood is made!

@cstanhope Haha, thanks. I seem to be doing better after a cortisone shot and I've gotten a trainer to help me with my form, so hopefully that helps.

TFW the doctor tells you your shoulder bone is dissolving because you lift weights too much.

(See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolysis#Distal_clavicular_osteolysis)

A pseudo-TDD workflow using expected failures, wherein I describe how you can use xfail and VCS history rewriting to make a TDD history even if you didn't do TDD (this probably makes more sense once you've read the article):

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pseudo-tdd-xfail.html

@trinsec I was lying next to him and he stuck his finger in my eye. I thought he had displaced the contact because my vision in that eye seemed fuzzy, but when I went to adjust it it was just missing!

It is wild to me that

1. nearly every commercial species of eel is endangered,
2. no one has ever successfully bred an eel in captivity\* and
3. eel is available in basically every sushi place in America (it's actually hard to avoid!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel#Commercial_species

\*Some scientists managed to get some new eels hatched, but they died after 18 days. Not exactly a good foundation for aquaculture.

I thought my first son was the master of stealing glasses because he had a way of looking away from you to draw your attention elsewhere while he grabbed your glasses.

Last night my second son took it to a new level when he managed to steal one of my contact lenses right out of my eye.

@Firaas It was an Amazon Echo Dot, so whatever that was.

TBH he has fixed it that way before, but this time the issue was that the modem was unplugged, so while I was fixing that he did his plug/unplug cycle and decided it worked. 😅

"Papa, I fixed it. I plugged it out and plugged it in and then it worked!"

Only 3 years old and already turning it off and then on again. So proud.

New blog post out today: How and why I use pytest's xfail: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pytest-xfail.html