Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Laser eye surgery was a qualified success. The eye doctor says my vision is 20/20 already, but I still can't seem to resolve any of the features of the sun when I stare at it.

Maybe a few more hours of staring will help the recovery process?

Giving my glasses a valedictory tour of the house before they shoot me in the eye with a laser tomorrow, presumably changing my prescription.

Who wore it best?

Oh no, my muscles are all feeling sore after my booster shot! Almost like I've been doing a bunch of new exercises in the gym these past few days - oh wait nevermind that's exactly what happened. \*closes VAERS tab\*

This is the true spirit of the web - every article is a gateway to 10 other articles.

"Oh man I've got 40 tabs of stuff to read later open, I should read some so that I can close them."

10 minutes later: "Oh man I have 43 tabs of stuff to read later open!"

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

#python

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

We'll miss you buddy. 😿

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.

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

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

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.

"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